All I hear when someone starts singing the ‘Sunset Boulevard’ theme. 🤷‍♂️

Before ‘Blue Moon’ became a Rodgers and Hart classic, the melody had been used in the song ‘The Bad in Every Man’ for 1934’s ‘Manhattan Melodrama.’ Some context: the singer, Shirley Ross, is in black face here and supposedly passing for a black woman here.

*dead pan*: Awesome.

Rita Moreno revisits the role of Googie Gomez from Terrence McNally’s ‘The Ritz’ at a 2011 benefit performance in LA.

Aspiring Divine Miss M energy here.

25 year old Bette Midler performs at the Continental Baths in 1971.

Awesome. Cool. Cool cool.

‘The History Boys’ (2006), adapted from Alan Bennett’s hit play.