The start
Proven ability
Destined to present
Excitement flow
The curtain rises
The step out
On with the show
Foot taps at first
Forming a dance
The opportunity in chance
Spotlights all over here and there
Outside the marquee highlighting my name
Years of perfection
Music by selection
Encouragement through many in recognition
The focus of precision
Audience applause
Entertainment clause
Maneuvering about
One dance step at a time
Creativity that was made
Backstage preparing it all
The moment
Dreamed on my day view for a long time
Here I am
I am Broadway.
When a friend’s in Manhattan,
Amid all the din,
A breakfast on Broadway’s
The way to begin.
A place near the theater
Where she has to go
Means a leisurely stroll
Will lead right to her show.
The food will pass muster;
The booths will be large.
The waiters won’t rush you,
So you’ll be in charge.
The crowds won’t be there yet,
If early you meet,
Making it much more civil
When crossing the street.
Then after your breakfast,
Once she gets on line,
You’ll stroll north on Broadway
To Arts and Design.*
The day’s just begun,
But your stomach and heart
Will be filled with the comfort
This meal will impart.
*Museum of Arts and Design
Step out
Under the spotlight
Tap and Dance
Dazzle and Delight
Curtain up
The overture
The Great White Entertainment Way
The attention of Broadway
Start to Finish
Bow in distinguished
Orchestra upbeat
Dramatics and Comedy blending together
You haven’t seen anything yet
The best is yet to assemble
Audience applause
Roar of appreciation
Standing ovation
A show well done
Broadway theory among.
a new broadway play
extravagant production
waiting for reviews
in but a few words
critic can shut down the show
after the first run
They left Southampton with a coal fire down below,
Olympic class of the White Star Line, little did they know.
Irish-built in Belfast, one iceberg was all it took as,
with insufficient lifeboats, the whole wide world it shook.
Departing Queenstown, compartments not all watertight,
unsinkable or so they said, until that tragic night...
(almost a six-day cruise).
She was poorly equipped and, as all good Captains do
(tho' that is not his due), Edward Smith
(and fifteen hundred souls or more)
went down with the ship.
And the band played on as the ship was going down,
were they blind (drunk?), out of their minds,
they were all about to drown.
Some thought 'Bravery,' others, 'Stupidity,'
(altho' cold as ice), I can say, quite categorically,
I would have jumped ship if it were me.
Tho' it's a deep subject, rock-bottom at very best,
the play on Broadway (take a bow) you won't see,
of lost lives and broken hearts
is... 'The Titanic, In Two Parts'.
Broadway Joe, Like Decio's
Design!
Broadway Joe Like Decio's
Our .... Climb!
Good day Broadway
Welcome to New York City
The first time stepping out on the Great White Way Stage
The wonder, dream and anticipation
Nervousness throughout
A Dream Come True
The stage was set
Dazzle and Sizzle
Spotlight search
Front and Center
Music leveraged up
The view of the audience
A breakout in song with a cast in sing along
Then words of anguish and desperation
Emotions overflow
Living the dream of success
Talent being shown
Name on the marquee full blown
Tomorrow seen at that moment
Broadway that was the here and now
Eyes of entertainment
Appreciation in loud applause from the audience
The Bow in approval
The Thank you
Curtain comes down
The regards to Broadway
The Male Belgium Blue
Spieciem #.0009-280
and Female specimen
Brown Swiss--290
( a deluxe wool Hat)
Swiss Maids Uniiform
west cotton that rots
but new she's a doll!
said Bisser Daned to have
the calf in the spring
but his wife wished it for
Christmas thyme and
all the joy it would bring.
Thought the cold winters
harshness
werst the chances
of success.
The newly built insulated
barn
was ready for the test.
He shall feed these cattle
the feed should last
until spring.
The joys of a new calf
and all the milk the calf
will bring.
Eggnog for Christmas
a rummy cultured drink.
Caroling and cigar
smoking.
While nature does
it's thing!
Go to a Broadway show; take a look
At the people who fill up the seating,
A mixture of tourists from thither and yon,
All together, with few of them meeting.
The old and the young, the fat and the thin,
The foreigners from varied places,
The blonds and the bald, the braids and the curls,
The smiles or the frowns on the faces.
No matter the crowd, when the theater goes dark,
They’re united in their expectation
That the show they’ll be seeing is worth it and will
Earn a well-deserved standing ovation.
Cats
the longest running musical on Broadway
the one that knocked A Chorus Line out of first place
After it had been the King of the Musicals for a long time
Cats
a musical my husband thought was boring
He walked out of it before the second act
Cats
a musical I always wanted to see
I watched for fifteen minutes on TV
before I also walked out
Flapping gay garment hung on balcony bannister
Trots obstinate flung spun over railing
Fixated brazen Brigette immune to embarrassment
Boosted bemuse formats never failing
Composed to procure prominence, step with stars
Stage bound show must go on motto
Constellation shift slides velvet curtain aside ajar
Planets orbit origin wins Lyceum lotto
Horoscope high hope performs fame premonition
Bright light box office tickets Brigette
Halcyon sky spiral beehive secures each audition
Sixties seductress frequency fills seats
23rd June
Absurd Truth
A theatre legend - Mr Stephen Sondheim
an icon of Broadway, ahead of his time
smart lyrics, lush music, bold rhythms and rhyme
the curtain has fallen on a writer sublime.
// Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics and/or music to West Side Story, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Company, Follies, and many more musicals //
Written 1/13/2022
I find myself humming Broadway melodies,
suddenly bursting into "I'm as Corny as Kansas in August,"
and "Wind Sweeping Across the Plains,"
while the miles disappear behind me,
and slight hints of dusk appear on the distant horizon
as I hurtle toward "Some Enchanted Evening,"
beneath the clean white sheets of a sterile
room in an expensive Holiday Inn Suite
a long, long way from South Pacific
and Oklahoma!
written August 18, 2021
He’d a fetish feline without doubt
so did Tom, his sick mania flout
make phantasmagorical
a new categorical
and then Andrew did let the cat out.
Twas a bargain at just half the price
Nunn and Weber made Memory nice
blending words of a poet
with some music to show it
to find lightning can sometimes strike twice.
___________________________________
1/3/2021
How Many Syllables
I do not see the poem yet I tried to post last night.
Is it too soon? The why's not clear, I feel emerging fright,
and I'm here blushing in the wings! Will curtain find its part,
an audience know love verse sings, mood synthesized by heart?
Is there some test I need to pass, a path I must repent,
a God to pray to? I'm so crass! I've virtue left not spent
to bridge the gaps in life's extremes? I'll bet I've gone too far;
what creds I had now flushed with dreams! My brain is so bizarre!
November 2020
PS: I believe that a 'blighter' can be either male or female. I've
certainly seen men who look buxom, and both 'Species' can be
cute, funny, shapely, political, and poetic, so my title feels like it
is more or less androgynous.
But if recent politics has taught me anything, it is that the inverse of
the old saw is probably more accurate than the original ever was,
i.e., "Time heals all wounds!"
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