Showtunes of the Day

Girl Crazy: 1943 Film soundtrack. (G. Gershwin/I. Gershwin) Judy Garland: Making Mickey Rooney tolerable since Love Finds Andy Hardy.

Preppies: 1983 Original Off-Broadway Cast(e) recording (Angelo, Portnoy). A friend recommended this as a guilty pleasure. Sample dialogue:

TEACHER: Math: If you bought a thousand shares of Standard Oil in 1920, and it's value increased at a compounded rate of 10% a year, what would you have now?

STUDENT: Old money.

High quality stuff.

Legally Blonde: 2007 Original Broadway cast recording (O'Keefe & Benjamin). Didn't get to the whole thing yesterday. Lotsa fun, but doesn't really stand up to scrutinization. Just like the movie.