"Dim The Lights!"

"Forget About The Boy" - Thoroughly Modern Millie Original Broadway Cast Recording.

~ Sutton Foster & Cast. 

I always forget how much I love the theatre until I listen to a recording, or I'm sat inside the huge buildings situated in the West End or Broadway - or anywhere, for that matter. Nothing compares to the feeling I get when I'm in the uncomfortable fold-down seats, that don't seem to matter once the house lights go down and the orchestrations fill the room.

And I'm not just talking musical theatre, either. I love the Opera (La Boheme is my favourite). I love plays (Angels in America is my favourite). I love the ballet (Swan lake is my favourite classical ballet, Alice in wonderful is my favourite contemporary). But I guess you could say that my one true love is musical theatre. 

I've always loved musicals, and I can't remember a time in my life when I wasn't watching them - be it on TV or on the stage. From 1930's MGM to 1960's movie musicals to current stage musicals. I was introduced to MGM in my teenage years - Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are my one-time, permanent OTP. Top hat is dreamy, and, I still have a bit of a crush on Astaire and Rogers. Swoon!

I haven't really listened to any of my cast recordings in the longest time. In fact, most of them, I don't own anymore. I sold a lot of them as I always had duplicates as my ex, O, was also an avid theatre lover. So infact, I only have the ones I liked and she hated. And one of those, is the cast recording for 'Thoroughly Modern Millie'. I'm a total Sutton Foster nerd. Her voice gives me shivers, and honestly, provides me with an escape. 

After work tonight, and a particularly long and arduous day, I put the CD into my car stereo and as soon as the overture began, I turned the volume right up and drove home. And then 'Forget about the boy' came on, and I found myself thinking of my ex as I drove. And you know what, singing the lyrics, and imagining singing them to O... really made me feel good!

So I'll leave you with them, as I go and ponder booking a theatre ticket for myself. Which is something I've not done in six years.  My day has drastically improved, so thank you, grandad, for passing on your love of theatre to me.  

Forget About The Boy

No canary in a tree for me

This canary's ready to fly free

Cut the cord

Is that a man I once adored?

He's nothing but an albatross

No great loss

Doublecrosser

Forget about the boy

Pull the plug

Ain't he the one who pulled the rug

He's lower than an alley cat

Dirty rat

And I flatter

Forget about the boy

Forget about the boy

Forget about the boy

And in the moonlight

Don't you think about him

Sister, you're much better off without him

You can blow the blues a kiss goodbye

And put the sun back in the sky

For when he comes crawlin'

I'm not fallin'

Shout hooray and halleluh!

Now me and mister wrong are through

I'll find myself another beau

Who I know is no rover

Forget about the boy

Forget about the boy

Forget about -

Jimmy, oh Jimmy, Jimmy

[..instrumental..]

And in the moonlight don't you think about him

Sister you're much better off without him

You can blow the blues a kiss goodbye

And put the sun back in the sky

MISS FLANNERY and TYPISTS:

For when he comes crawlin'

MILLIE:

I'm not fallin'

ALL:

Hallelujah!

Forget about the boy

Forget about the boy

 

Forget about the boy!