Animals on Stage

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[02:20] So far, so good. Now, what did Dr. Doolittle want to do with the animals more than anything

[02:26] else? Alvin? He wanted it. And who promised to teach him how to talk to the animals, Simon?

[02:34] Polynesia, the pepper. Okay. Now, Theodore, do you think you remembered

[02:40] the song the doctor sang? Sure, if you help me.

[02:44] Okay, Theodore, I'll start it out for you. If I could talk to the animals, just imagine

[02:52] me chatting with a chimp in chimpanzee. Imagine talking to a tiger, chatting with a cheetah.

[03:01] What a neat achievement it would be if we could talk to the animals, learn their life.

[03:28] If people asked me, can you speak rhinoceros? If I conferred with our furry friends, men

[03:40] to animals, think of the amazing repartee. If I could walk with the animals, talk with

[03:48] the animals, grunt and sweet, and strut with the animals, and they could talk to me.

[04:01] If I consulted with quadrupeds, think what fun we'd have, asking over crocodiles for

[04:07] tea, or maybe lunch with two or three lions, walruses and sea lions. What a lovely place

[04:14] the world would be if I spoke sign to orangutans. If I were asked to sing in hippopotamus, if

[04:49] I could parlay with pachyderms, it's a fairytale worthy of hands, Anderson or Grimm. A man

[04:57] who walks with the animals, talks with the animals, grunts and sweeps and sluts with

[05:04] the animals. To him, I'd study every living creature's language. If friends said, can

[05:22] he talk in crab or pelican, if I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals,

[05:42] grunt and sweet, and strut with the animals. To me, I understand that's enough.

[05:58] And well, we're off on Better Living Through Show Tunes. I am your host for the next approximately

[06:06] 55 minutes. My name is Kirk Stantis, and I want to thank, first off, I'd like to get

[06:11] my thanks out of the way. I'd like to thank my producer, Bonnie, very much for helping

[06:14] me put together today's show. And we just keep moving on. It is about animals today.

[06:21] I have a cat who also is my producer, Charlie. He's very, very good. He talks a lot, and

[06:27] he tells me what to do. The voices in my head are gone, and now that my cat tells me what

[06:33] to do. So we're going to keep going with animals on stage is our theme today. I hope

[06:37] we have some fun with it. I hope you enjoy it too. On this little cloudy Sunday, but

[06:42] at least it's not Armageddon pouring rain. So I think we'll get through. So all about

[06:48] birds, I mean, all about animals or shows with animals in their title. So let's keep

[06:53] going and we'll get from Man of La Mancha, one of my favorite shows. And this is Little

[06:59] Bird and we'll play some others after that.

[07:40] Little Bird, little bird, in a manch where, last night he said good little bird, little

[08:19] bird, on me waited to little bird, little bird in the bark of a tree that imprisoned

[09:41] inside was a butterfly. Butterfly trembled. His delicate wings were all crumbled and

[11:06] I had made him I was strong no wonder of so he died in my

[11:30] by the will

[11:34] not of God

[11:36] but of man

[12:45] All who knows

[13:34] One thing I got I got positive to pay I got pause walk with a wiggle in my water cuz once you

[13:51] Heard that word there ain't nothing you can't do

[13:55] So let that positivity work for you

[13:58] positivity

[13:59] Why there's no such word. Of course there is in the dictionary right between popsicle and prehistoric. Believe you me

[14:06] I seen it work miracles

[14:09] He's a schmo and he's a schlep. Yeah, and this one doesn't got the sharpest rep

[14:14] In fact all three without a doubt miss the day that brains wind it out

[14:19] What if he's no sage and he's no is the whole world thinks that we are geniuses cuz all our screws

[14:25] Maybe I'm true

[14:28] We got positivity

[14:32] We got

[14:33] Try knowledge in the noodle and once you learn that we're sitting in a positro city

[14:49] Who's it?

[14:52] Ariel don't take advice from bird brains bird brains who you call it bird brains

[14:56] We got natural talent what I like to call go

[15:00] ability

[15:15] And there's you just sitting there down flat upon your dairy air. Hey, that's the way you wanna be

[15:30] Well, you might as well be shrubbery

[15:32] And take it from my seagull that's positivity from Disney's a little mermaid

[17:14] You got to be has some positivity in your life today

[17:17] That's for sure and from now on because you know, you know, otherwise you're just gonna be frowning more than your smile

[17:22] And before that we heard from Zorba the Broadway revival cast butterfly the butterfly that was Debbie Shapiro

[17:29] singing the female lead in that and Robert Westenberg

[17:32] With her and then before that for manna la macho one of my favorite potent musicals if people ask me

[17:37] That's one of them in the top ten little bird little bird a short piece

[17:42] But I just I just think it's charming

[17:44] I'm gonna keep going with our theme here today of animals on stage and we're gonna keep going with something from big fish

[17:52] So and then we'll get to the whiz and after that Shrek the musical

[17:56] I hope you're enjoying this and just kind of light-hearted

[18:00] Musicals today all about animals that we love and that hopefully they love us, too

[18:04] What if I told you to change the world? What if I told you you could be a king?

[18:18] Anything you desired boy anything of a plate all within your power to create

[18:25] I know somewhere in the darkness. There's a story meant for me

[18:30] Where I always know exactly what to say

[18:34] I know somewhere some surprising ending waits for me to tell it my own way

[18:43] Be the hero of your story if you can be the champion in the fight not just a man

[18:52] Don't depend on other people to put paper next to pen be the hero of your story boy

[18:59] And then you can rise to be the hero

[19:03] Once again now the best part of an adventure is the people you meet

[19:09] What if I said I met a witch when I was very young?

[19:14] What if I said she showed me how I died?

[19:18] Powerless in the face of it terrified in the woods. That was where my life was changed for good

[19:25] Hey, what if I said I met a giant wasting in a cave?

[19:30] What if I claimed I rose to be far braver than the brave all my life of story son, and everyone is true

[19:38] So believe me as I'm telling you

[19:41] To be the hero of your story while you may be the guy who gets the girl and saves the day

[19:50] You don't need a book of Greeks to teach you how to stay alive

[19:54] Be the hero of each story you derive

[20:00] What if I comes a life that you make where each character comes your friend to make believe what's waiting

[20:16] Around the bed if you understand this premise you will never be alone

[20:34] Swimming in the mist in the first girl that here is what she whispered

[20:58] Now listen son, I want I met this fisherman since you gotta help me if I don't catch a fish

[21:21] My family is gonna start. Mm-hmm. Well, the fish are sleeping. You got to get them moving. Try the Alabama stone

[21:29] What's that?

[21:39] Mm-hmm works every time son. I can't explain

[21:43] Something about this rhythm really gets their fins moving

[21:46] Let's see what you got now. Come on this before now

[22:10] Listen you give a man a fish you feed him for a day you teach a man to fish you feed him for a lifetime

[22:15] Teach a man the Alabama stomp

[23:42] Well, maybe you do we got a stick together

[26:33] When you feel congested

[26:39] When you can now shave it when it gets hairy

[26:50] Don't let me go

[26:57] Don't let me go like butter and grits like cables and dents like yet and gangster man

[27:39] Drang like aang and Chang attached and you like a fat kid on cake

[27:48] Like you've been in psyche like pop rocks and Mikey will stick together like that Velcro stuff

[27:54] I'm the fuzzy side you'll be the spike

[27:57] With those funny things at the bottom, you know

[28:00] And I hope you're enjoying our animals on Broadway or animals on the stage

[28:51] Whichever you prefer today on better living through show tunes. We'll be right back after this message

[29:00] Well, we're back with better living through show tunes after that important message and you heard before the break

[29:08] Don't let me go

[29:09] There was donkey donkey donkey from Shrek the musical that was the original cast recording before that mean old lion

[29:17] if you didn't recognize it it was from the

[29:19] 2024 Broadway cast recording of the whiz and that was Kyle Freeman singing the lion's roll and

[29:26] Prior to that to the start of this segment. We had be the hero from big fish and of course, as I said

[29:33] It's not always about

[29:35] Animals, but the show title might have it in it. So big fish get it

[29:39] Okay, maybe not but we're gonna keep going with shows that I like it shows. I hope you're enjoying

[29:45] This is one from urine town that I really enjoyed and it is be the bunny

[29:50] I kind of just like it. Sometimes I play it at Easter time which upsets people but

[29:55] This is from urine town and you're gonna have some more animal related songs right after that

[30:09] He's nibbling grass without a care

[30:13] He's so delightful as he pops for you

[30:17] You say hi bunny and he stops for you

[30:21] You pull your trigger and he drops for you

[30:24] Goodbye bunny boo

[30:26] Hello rabbit stew

[30:28] Get me boys

[30:32] Don't be the bunny

[30:34] Don't be the stew

[30:36] Don't be the dinner you have better things to do

[30:39] There ain't no joke, that's why it's funny

[30:43] So take your cue

[30:45] Don't be the bunny

[30:47] Don't be the bunny

[30:53] People are animals. Hope dear animals with huge incisors and big flappy feet

[30:59] Look closely you'll see them. I do I see them everywhere

[31:05] a little bunny

[31:08] He needs a measly 50 cents

[31:12] A little bunny didn't plan

[31:17] Simply hasn't got the bread

[31:22] Mercy but gets jail instead hasn't peppers in the air as the bunny gets the chair

[31:32] Don't be the bunny don't be the dope don't be the loser you're much better than that hope

[31:41] You're in the money

[31:43] Advice to you

[31:58] Don't they

[32:02] Live long enough hope dear you see many thing even a daughter doubting her father

[32:14] He thinks he's found a brand-new home

[32:19] So snug and cozy on your closet and then you open up your closet door

[32:26] That bunny in my closet for

[32:29] When I'm mallet and some clippers you find out new bunny slippers grasp the message staff

[32:35] Right behind your boss

[32:37] Don't be the bunny

[32:39] Don't be the shoe

[32:41] Don't get stepped out

[32:43] The one who steps is you

[32:46] Stepped up, sunny

[32:49] Stepped on the board

[32:52] Don't be the bunny

[33:02] Something happened Alice something weird and wonderful

[33:06] I hear a music I have never heard before

[33:12] I feel the waves though. I am nowhere near

[33:16] the shore

[33:19] In the arms of a squid

[33:24] I touched my secret longing

[33:28] All embraced

[33:30] as I faced

[33:32] the world both warm and new

[33:36] In the charms

[33:38] of a squid

[33:40] I lost my inhibitions

[33:44] and found my love

[33:48] For you and in the arms

[33:53] of a squid

[33:56] Tenacled and squishy

[33:59] rearranged

[34:01] I was changed

[34:03] by something sort of fishy

[34:07] Then at once as I hugged

[34:11] a thousand cups of suction

[34:15] I found my love

[34:18] for you

[35:25] You ought to ask mr. Mastoffeleez the original cunt the greatest

[35:33] from mr. Mastoffeleez his conjuring turn

[35:36] and we all say

[35:39] a magical

[36:03] from his ears to the tip of his tail

[36:06] through the tiniest crack he can walk on the narrowest rail

[36:11] He can pick any card from the pack

[36:14] He is equally coming with dice

[36:17] He is always deceiving you into believing that he's only hunting for mice

[36:22] He can play in a trick with a cork

[36:25] on a spoon and a bit of fish paste

[36:27] A knife for a fork you have seen in one moment and then it is gone

[36:36] You'll find it next week lying out on the lawn

[36:39] And we all say

[36:42] So clever as malnourished mr. Mastoffeleez

[37:04] This manna is vague and aloof

[37:06] You would think there was nobody's choice has been heard on the roof

[37:12] When he was curled up by the fire

[37:14] He's sometimes been heard by the fire

[37:17] When he was about on the roof

[37:19] And these we all heard that somebody heard which is

[37:24] Incontestable proof this singular magical power in from the garden for our and

[37:39] Seven kittens right out of the house

[37:41] And we all say

[37:44] We're gonna play something from cats and i'll bet you are guessing. I'll bet he plays memory

[39:07] Nope, i'm gonna go around that. I had several choices

[39:10] I have a friend who absolutely adores the musical and she had some suggestions

[39:14] So thank you miss maryann for mr. Mastoffeleez from the original london cast recording of 81 and before that we heard

[39:23] in the arms from squid

[39:26] Uh little mermaid and before that we heard don't be the bunny from yearn town

[39:32] Oh, no in the arms squid was from the adams family. My apologies. I'm thinking fish and

[39:37] The segment before but we're gonna keep moving and right now we're gonna do when pigs fly

[39:44] When pigs fly the original cast recording and then we're gonna get into some other animal things after that

[39:49] So I hope you're enjoying today's show. It's it's just kind of fun

[39:55] Well, miss round hole the jig is up

[39:58] The pig is up in the air

[40:01] I'm coming through the coast is clear be gone. You have no power here

[40:09] Tonight we're staging a grand review

[40:12] And it's not just a stage we're going through

[40:19] Ladies and gentlemen, please unfasten your safety belts and prepare for takeoff

[40:26] pigs fly

[40:30] every rule is suspended

[40:33] When pigs fly common sense is upended

[40:38] So take a seat and settle back it's a major airborne park attack when pigs fly

[40:48] Possibility beckons

[40:51] No alternate side of the brain restrictions apply

[40:57] Brother you ain't seen a thing till you've seen bacon taken wing when

[41:04] pigs

[41:05] fly

[41:08] When pigs fly

[41:10] Inhibitions have vanished

[41:13] When pigs fly regulations are banished

[41:19] So just relax enjoy the show it's oinkers up and away we go

[41:25] The blue yonder gets wilder

[41:34] Too late to cancel the trip. So don't even try

[41:37] I'll zoom in by when it's a tiny extravaganza

[41:53] It's a giant performance piece. We've got guys who sing like mario lanta

[42:01] Guys who dance like citrus

[42:05] David it isn't bloated like broadway

[42:09] It isn't arty like bam

[42:12] It's a great big party smorgasbord with the generous helping of ham

[42:18] It's fly leave your gravity earth bound humor is certainly low

[42:28] But spirits are hot

[42:31] See those weenies aba the blast right past haunt heaven's gates when

[42:39] pigs

[43:43] When pigs a castle boat for a gun and goat hell with a gleaming glow for a gun and goat

[47:17] There's backwater of england where the pace of life is slow

[47:23] And the lilies on the lake are broad and large

[47:27] We're all living here in clover and the mating season's over

[47:35] So there won't be cause for anyone to blush

[47:40] In our land both green and pleasant

[47:43] Every bantam duck and pheasant if they had them we'd be walking our men

[47:49] Up for our life is good and steady

[47:55] Till we're locked and oven ready

[48:01] It's a poetry

[48:06] A folk down a farm's a turkey with gobble watches wattle style when the rooster cut could do

[48:26] The allah it's a poetry tiny foul who misses then there's either she's my missus

[48:44] So forgive me if i'm laying on the smile

[48:47] She goes in for heat and piking to point at the skills i'm liking it's a

[50:02] So much interest in this group

[50:05] I admit i'm quite a glutton but this feathered form of mutton wouldn't even make a palatable soup

[50:16] When those little diva you match they're delicious

[50:29] And I just can't be lying you will see me make a beeline for those tender little juicy balls of love

[50:44] Well, we're almost done right after that a poultry tail from honk and then before that the lonely goat herd

[52:25] Which from the sound of music i'll bet you all figured that out and when pigs fly from the original cast recording of

[52:31] When pigs fly next up on the horizon the best world music you're ever going to hear right here on wort 89.9 fm

[52:39] Well, thank you very much for tuning in i've enjoyed our time together and I will see you again on the third sunday

[52:45] Of next month again. My name is kirk stantis and you have been listening to better living through show tunes

[52:51] We'll see you again. Next up little lamb

[53:26] My birthday is here

[53:39] A bird little bear who sit on my right little

[54:02] Little hair, what game shall we play?

[54:44] little

[55:03] To where we all began bone and face to face, let us erase the form

[56:58] of man their song

[57:12] Let the crickets hold their breath

[57:15] Let the trees stand still as dead then tell the mosquitoes not to bite

[57:25] So fill the sky so they can see each other

[57:40] Have you ever been to a disability pride festival? If not, this is your invitation

[60:36] On saturday july 25th from noon until five join us at warner park for madison's 14th annual disability pride festival

[60:44] A free celebration of disability culture community and disability justice

[60:49] Spend the afternoon enjoying live music and performances meeting more than 70 exhibitors

[60:54] exploring local artists and community organization and enjoying the free food while it lasts

[60:59] At noon a short off street parade from the warner park accessible playground to the disability pride stage will be led by forward marching man

[61:07] Followed by up to something aerial dance troupe whether you have a disability

[61:12] Love someone who does or simply believe everyone belongs you'll find a welcoming community awaiting me

[61:17] The festival honors the legacy of the americans with disabilities act while celebrating the creativity leadership

[61:24] contributions of disabled people to our community

[61:27] The festival is saturday july 25th from noon to five at warner park

[61:31] It's free and we strive to show off our accessibility with asl interpretation and other accommodations available

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