This rare song with the original orchestration is from Cole Porter's score of the Orson Welles production of Around the World. The show was not a success and Porter was thought to be finished...until the next year when he wrote Kiss Me Kate.

BBC Cole Porter Night 2

There He Goes, Mr Phileas Fogg (from Around the World)

A song from Dodsworth...lyrics by Stephen Cole, music by Jeffrey Saver...sung by the character of Fran Dodsworth as she realizes that in Europe 40 is not old at all.

A Woman of a Certain Age sung by Christine Ebersole

MY ROMANCE

ONE MORE STAR WILL BE DANCING Lyric Stephen Cole, Music Jeffrey Saver

Demo of song from Grossinger's sung by two time Tony winner Judy Kaye

Before The Beginning-Judy Kaye Demo

Tony Awards - Antoinette Perry 1948

The opening number of Merlin's Apprentice, an original musical commission by the Walden Family Playhouse...

Welcome to the Magic from Merlin's Apprentice by Stephen Cole & Matthew Ward

rousing overture from the unrecorded score of Nowhere to Go But Up.  wonderful orchestration by Robert (Red)Ginzler of tunes by the nearly unknown Sol Berkowitz...how bad could this show be?

Overture to Nowhere to Go But Up

live recording of a song from Dodsworth, book & lyrics by Stephen Cole and Music by Jeff Saver. 

Bishop's Light sung by John Cullum and Dee Hoty

a song from Dodsworth by Stephen Cole & Jeff Saver sung by Jonathan Dukachitz as Baron Von Obersdorf...explaining how he goes from party to party.

Wherever The Party Is

From the CD of New Songs from New Shows: Time after Time & Dodsworth, Liz Callaway sings from Time After Time.

The Dream Has Just Begun sung by Liz Callaway from TIME AFTER TIME by Stephen Cole & Jeffrey Saver

08 Perfect

this is the live recording of the only performance of The Grass Harp Suite October 25th, 2002...just a couple of months before the death of the composer Claibe Richardson. The suite is arranged by Richardson and orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick. The New York Pops was conducted by Skitch Henderson. 

The Grass Harp Suite

7/25/16 Marni Nixon has left us and the BBC asked for my impressions of her career.

Marni Nixon BBC

CBC interview about my friend and co-author the late great Marni Nixon

Q: The Podcast from CBC Radio

Remembering Marni Nixon 07/26/201

a rare track from the radio in 1954...Oscar Hammerstein, accompanied by Richard Rodgers doing (he does not sing) their song The Big Black Giant from Me and Juliet

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN doing THE BIG BLACK GIANT

I'M STILL HERE 2020
Parody Lyric by Stephen Cole
Music by that other Stephen

WHO'S EVER KNOWN A 
TIME THAT WAS QUITE LIKE THIS YEAR?
BUT WE'RE HERE
STARRING "CORONA"
(AND WE DO NOT MEAN THE BEER)
BUT WE'RE HERE

WE PROVED WE'RE UP TO ANY TASK
AND I LOOK YOUNGER IN A MASK
MY MASK IS SPANGLED AND SHEER
AND I'M HERE

COLLEGES CLOSED? 
I GOT MY DEGREE IN MY ROOM
AND I'M HERE
NO TIME FOR GYMTIME
BUT I DID ZOOMBA ON ZOOM
AND I'M HERE

WE'VE BEEN IN LOCKDOWN,  HEAVEN KNOWS
WEEPING AS BROADWAY HAD TO CLOSE
I'VE HAD A Q-TIP UP MY NOSE
AND I FEAR
SIX FEET AWAY IS TOO NEAR
I'LL STAY HERE

WE'VE GOTTEN THROUGH NO PURELL!
NO TOILET PAPER!
PUBLIX WITH LINES ROUND THE BLOCK
WHEN YOU'VE BEEN THRU NO PURELL!
OR TOILET PAPER
NOTHING ELSE SEEMS LIKE A SHOCK

WE COULDN'T GET FLICKS
ALL CINEPLEXES ARE SHUT
BUT WE'RE HERE
THANK GOD FOR NETFLIX
OR WE'D HAVE GONE OFF OUR NUT
BUT WE'RE HERE



WE TWEET ON TWITTER
INSTAGRAM
BUT ARE WE BITTER?
(WELL, I AM)
WHATSAP WITH SNAP CHAT AND TIKTOK?
OH MY DEAR!
I'VE BEEN IN JAIL ON FACEBOOK
AND I'M HERE

I WOKE UP GROUCHY
SWEAT PANTS TO WORK AND TO BED
BUT I'M HERE
LISTENED TO FAUCI
I WASHED MY HANDS TILL THEY BLED
AND I'M HERE

CHURCHES WERE CLOSED, STILL I SAID MASS 
HEY 2020, KISS MY ASS!
I WILL NOT SHED ONE MORE TEAR
CAUSE I'M HERE

WE'VE GOTTEN THROUGH PROTESTS
AND RIOTS AND PROUD BOYS
HURRICANES, FIRES AND SMOKE
WHEN YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH PROTESTS
AND RIOTS AND PROUD BOYS
EVERYTHING ELSE IS A JOKE

EACH NIGHT AT SEVEN
BANGING OUR POTS TO SAY THANKS
AND WE'RE HERE
LOOKING TO HEAVEN
WONDERING WHAT'S IN OUR BANKS
BUT WE'RE HERE

WE LIVED THROUGH PLENTY...IS IT DONE?
DRINK UP TO TWENTY-TWENTY ONE 
LOOK WHAT YOU'VE GAINED...FORTY POUNDS IN YOUR REAR
BABY JUST SHOUT IT OUT LOUD 
THAT YOU'RE HERE
LOOK WHO'S HERE
WE'RE STILL HERE!

Stephen Cole 4

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