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To get you in the mood for Valentine's Day, let's indulge in some of the filthiest lyrics ever written. And yes, they are from the 1920s and 30s.

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THE LION KING  Music & Lyrics by Elton John & Tim Rice | Additional Music & Lyrics by Lebo M., Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Julie Taymor, & Hans Zimmer | Book by Roger Allers & Irene Mecchi  |  Adapted from the Screenplay by Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, & Linda Woolverton

Works Consulted & Reference :

• The Lion King (Original Production Directed by Julie Taymor)
• The Lion King (Original Film Directed by Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff)
• The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway by Julie Taymor
• The Lion King - The Full Film Script by Bill Scollon & Marbara Montini
• Disney Theatrical Productions: Producing Broadway Musicals the Disney Way by Amy S. Osatinski
• The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen: Critical Approaches from 'Snow White' to 'Frozen' Edited by George Rodosthenous
• The Lion King: A 'Blockbuster Feline' on Broadway and Beyond by Barbara Wallace Grossman

Music Credits:

• "Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin
• "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble
• "Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer
• "Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie
• "Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne
• "What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble
• "They Live in You" from The Lion King (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Lebo M., Mark Mancina, & Jay Rifkin | Performed by  Samuel E. Wright & Ensemble - The Lion King
• "Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon
• "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews
• "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas
• “What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff

During his life, Scott Joplin said that people would not appreciate his music until 50 years after his death. And he wasn’t wrong, though now he’s often called the king of ragtime writers.

Research:

• "Man causes tens of thousands of dollars in damage to Scott Joplin House." St. Louis Post-Dispatch [St. Louis, MO], 4 Oct. 2022, p. A1. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A721049996/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=a37ef18c. Accessed 21 Mar. 2023.
• "Scott Joplin." Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, Gale, 1998. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631003443/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=e60386d7. Accessed 21 Mar. 2023.
• "Scott Joplin." Notable Black American Men, Book II, edited by Jessie Carney Smith, Gale, 1998. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1622000255/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=4d8ac701. Accessed 21 Mar. 2023.
• "Scott Joplin." St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture Online, Gale, 2013. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K2419200616/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=4e235f3d. Accessed 21 Mar. 2023.
• Albrecht, Theodore. “Joplin, Scott,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed March 22, 2023, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/joplin-scott.
• Ames, Eric. “Scott Joplin’s “Great Crush Collision March” and the Memorialization of a Marketing Spectacle.” The Baylor Digital Collections Blog. 4/19/2012. https://blogs.baylor.edu/digitalcollections/2012/04/19/scott-joplin%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Cgreat-crush-collision-march-and-the-memorialization-of-a-marketing-spectacle/
• Baumann, Timothy et al. “Interpreting Uncomfortable History at the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site in St. Louis, Missouri.” The Public Historian , Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/tph.2011.33.2.37
• Berlin, Ed. “Scott Joplin - the man and his music.” The Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival. https://www.scottjoplin.org/joplin-biography.html
• Berlin, Edward A. “King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era.” 2nd Oxford University press. 2016.
• Clark, Philip. “Scott Joplin's ragtime gets its dues.” The Guardian. 1/22/2014. https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/jan/22/scott-joplin-ragtime-josh-rifkin-the-sting
• Gross, Klaus-Dieter. “The Politics of Scott Joplin's ‘Treemonisha.’” Amerikastudien / American Studies , 2000, Vol. 45, No. 3 (2000). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41157951
• Kjemtrup, Inge. “Scott Joplin and the history of ragtime.” Pianist. 10/8/2020. https://www.pianistmagazine.com/blogs/scott-joplin-and-the-history-of-ragtime/

Vadukul, Alex. “The Forgotten Entertainer Rag.” New York Times. 5/24/2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/nyregion/remembering-scott-joplin.html 

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70 Guests, 70! This week, we're joined by our 70th guest (70th!!!)- West End (and now Broadway) icon, Melanie La Barrie! Together, we 'Follow the Leader' to shuck some Korn, before having a Ragtime with the Original Broadway Cast album- to discuss Melanie accidentally making her West End debut in the London production!
Plus we chat about & Juliet, Lateness, A Strange Loop, Boring shows, Youth Theatre in Trinidad and Tobago, and heeeaaps more!

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North Carolina native Ellis Dyson (of the band Ellis Dyson & The Shambles) joined Six Count just before a performance at The Cave in Chapel Hill. 

The show was the first gig on The Shambles’s short tour along the East Coast this October. The band is known for combining “old-time influences ranging from early New Orleans Jazz to Piedmont Murder Ballads.”

Now based in New Orleans, Ellis shares about the group’s origin story from 2015 as a banjo and saxophone duo in “The Southern Slice of Heaven,” the role of storytelling and theatrics in his music, and what’s next for the Shambles. 

Musicians: 

• Ellis Dyson (banjo, vocals)
• Hunter Burgamy (guitar)
• Norbert Farkas (upright bass)
• Danny Abrams (saxophones, clarinet)
• Zach Lange (trumpet)

Stream music by Ellis Dyson and The Shambles: 

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• Tidal
• YouTube

You can also follow them on Instagram and Facebook. 

Music credits

This season features the songs “Forged in Rhythm” and “Callous & Kind” by Keenan McKenzie & The Riffers (2017), used by Six Count with permission from the artist.

How to listen

You can find Six Count on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other listening app!

Support the show

If you’d like to support Six Count, you can make a gift on DonorBox or Venmo @thexarawilde.

A writer for stage and screen, an artistic director, and an actor, Kwame Kwei-Armah chose a truly poetic trio of Black men pushed to a righteous breaking point for today’s conversation. Which is a perfect parallel to his latest project, Breaking (which premiered at Sundance ‘22 under the title 892), starring John Boyega and based on the true story of Brian Brown-Easley. 

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about forthcoming shorts anthology Give Me an A.

Movies this week:

Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992)

Ragtime (Milos Forman, 1981)

Hollywood Shuffle (Robert Townsend, 1987)

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Kwame Kwei-Armah

Special music by the Chancel Choir.

In Episode 31, I talk with roots musician Noah Engh known for his distinct singing and ragtime and blues guitar and ukulele.  We discuss both Noah’s and Uke’s journies in music; we reminisce about our time in Hollywood and discuss a portion of blues and roots music history.  We also walk back through the pandemic and how Uke In A Suit came to exist, record a full-length album, and the pains of social media. Banjo, CO, also gets blessed with a live performance from “Uke In A Suit,” performing Blind Blake’s Too Time Blues.  In this week’s wrap-up, Crystal and I discuss Hollywood decapitations, hot dogs, the Iowa State Fair, the difference between a square and gerrymandering.  Now please enjoy as Noah and I “come correct” in our entertaining conversation. 

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RAGTIME Book by Terrence McNally | Music by Stephen Flaherty | Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Based on “Ragtime” by E.L. Doctorow 

Episode Segments:

• 2:12 - Speed Test
• 5:06 - Why God Why
• 10:43 - Back to Before
• 14:14 – Putting It Together
• 28:12 - What's Inside
• 49:26 - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
• 1:15:34 - Our Favorite Things
• 1:24:54 - Corner of the Sky
• 1:28:10 – What Comes Next?

Works Consulted & Reference :

• Ragtime (Original Libretto) by Terrence McNally
• Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
• Ragtime: The Making of a Musical in “The Cultural Critic” by Steve Cohen 
• Great Performances: Creating Ragtime (PBS – 1998)
• Stars in the House: Ragtime Reunion
• The Making of a Musical: Ragtime at The Kennedy Center
• Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway by Michael Riedel

Music Credits:

• "Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin
• "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble
• "Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer
• "Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie
• "Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne
• "What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble
• "Your Daddy’s Son” from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Audra McDonald
• "Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon
• "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews
• "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas
• “What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff

Judy Kaye first came to prominence playing Lily Garland in the original Broadway production of On The 20th Century opposite John Cullum and Imogene Coca. In a career spanning five decades, she has played theaters and concert halls across the globe, in roles as diverse as Lucy Van Pelt, Rizzo, Maria Von Trapp, Mrs. Lovett, and Grandma Kurnitz in Lost in Yonkers. Recent Broadway appearances include Cinderella, Wicked, Anastasia and Diana. She played Eurydice in Orpheus In The Underworld, Musetta in La Boheme, and Lucy Lockett in The Beggar’s Opera at The Santa Fe Opera. She has twice received the Tony Award; first in 1988 for the role of the tempestuous opera diva Carlotta Giudicelli in The Phantom of the Opera, then again in 2012 for her performance as the high-flying Duchess Estonia Dulworth in Nice Work If You Can Get It. She has also twice received the Theater LA Ovation Award; for her work as Emma Goldman in Ragtime, and as the melodically challenged Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir, two roles she originated on Broadway. She has sung with symphony orchestras throughout the US and Europe, and twice at the White House. She is also the voice of Kinsey Millhone in the Sue Grafton Alphabet Mystery Series for Random House Audio. (Bio courtesy of Broadway.com)

Cocktails at Table 7- Inside New York’s Joe Allen is produced and hosted by Jason Woodruff, Dana Mierlak and Sean Kent, with music by James Rubio and logo and artwork design by Christina D’Angelo. The Producers would like to extend a special thank you to the owners of Joe Allen, Orso and Bar Centrale Restaurants.

• Parliament - UnFunky UFO
• Parliament - Little Old Country Boy
• Parliament - I Just Got Back From The Fantasy, Ahead of Our Time in the Four Lands of Ellet
• Parliament - If It Don't Fit (Don't Force It)
• United Soul - I Miss My Baby
• Parliament - Together
• Parliament - Do That Stuff
• Parliament - I Can Move (If You Let Me)
• Funkadelic - I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody's Got a Thing
• Funkadelic - Friday Night, August 14th
• Funkadelic - Super Stupid
• Daktyl, featuring MOONZz - Unspoken
• Heimanu - Nerva
• Bobby Tank - For You
• rSUN - Born
• Reefs - Blossom
• Arca - Mequetrefe (mnstrm. Remix)
• xander - ghostkilla
• camoufly - come .down
• pluko - TIME + ENERGY
• Louis The Child - Self Care
• Moore Kismet, featuring Pauline Herr - You Should Run
• Petit Biscuit, featuring Diplo - Pick Your Battles
• Krane, featuring B. Lewis - Only One
• juuku x bafu - endless
• Ookay - GUMBO
• Afrosamuraiist - Fallen
• DeliriousNinja - Wanderlust
• MUIRA - Sapphire//ruby
• clipping. - Enlacing
• Chester Watson , featuring Dua Saleh - Daydreams
• Dizzee Rascal, featuring Rob Jones - Be Incredible
• Lou Phelps - DYNAMITE
• Tierra Whack - Dora
• BKtheRula - Admit It
• Black Thought - Ghetto Boys and Girls (Fuel Interlude)
• Black Thought, featuring Portugal. The Man & The Last Artful, Dodgr - Fuel
• BigGhostLimited, featuring Jose Santiago - Trinidad Vs. Camacho
• Sly5thAve, featuring Marlon Craft - More or Less
• Busta Rhymes, featuring Rapsody - The Best I Can
• Open Mike Eagle - WTF Is Self Care

• King Khan - Never Hold On
• Aladean Kheroufi - Good
• Marlena Shaw - Where Can I Go
• Various Artists - Illusion (Silly Aparition)
• Badge Époque Ensemble - Sing a Silent Gospel
• Carmanah - Best Interests
• The Budos Band - Long In The Tooth
• Butcher Brown - Cabbage (DFC)
• Lyn Collins - Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again
• Steve Arrington - Love Knows
• Chicano Batman - I Know It
• Takuya Kuroda - Change
• Ben Snow - Enter (VIP)
• Echo Brown - Stutter
• Rene Lavice , Benny L - 1000 Days
• Rene Lavice - Not Deep
• Tyr Kohout, Stranjah - Monster
• Current Value - Footwork
• Sensus - Night Light
• K Motionz - Gunshot (A.M.C Remix)
• Nc-17, KC - The Beyond
• Fourward - Lose Control
• Aj Suede - Suede Yacht Ft. R.A.P. Ferreira
• Lex Leosis - Se Miso ft. Snotty Nose Rez Kids
• Cartel Madras - Working
• Super Duty Tough Work - Hypnotic
• Sa-Roc - Goddess Gang
• Guts - The Forgotten (Don't Look Away) Ft. Quelle Chris & Denmark Vessey
• Ka - Every Now and Then
• Armand Hammer - Ramesses II Ft. Earl Sweatshirt, Fielded & Moor Mother
• Flatbush Zombies - Afterlife

• Cameo - Funk, Funk
• Les Hooper - Vamp
• The Nite-Liters - Funky-Vamp
• Bloodstone - Friendship
• The Jimmy Castor Bunch - Bad
• The New Birth - What'll I Do
• Jeannine Otis & Heikki Sarmanto - Magic Song
• Various Artists, Badge Époque Ensemble - Theme 09/26/18
• Dyzphoria & Slayloverboy - RATHERFELNOTHING
• NΣΣT - UKIYO
• Baribal - micro flora
• puudle - hanagasaku
• Rezz & Grabbitz - Someone Else (PEEKABOO Remix)
• vowl. x DIVINE - secrets
• YUNG BAE, featuring Marc E. Bassy - Revolving
• Red Fingers - Colors
• Robotaki, featuring Miko - Dreamcatcher (Night Mix)
• BLUEOUT - Placebo
• Baauer - Planet's Mad (Codex Remix)
• JKuch - I Can't Let You Go
• JKuch - Inure
• Denzel Curry - Ricky (Smol x oh! gee flip)
• Hucci & Jaya - Fountain (GANZ Edit)
• msft. - Breg
• Moore Kismet, featuring Bajillionaire - Drift
• GWS x Cartel Madras - Stay Up All Night
• Westside Gunn, featuring Boldy James & Jadakiss - All Praises
• Small Bills (Elucid & The Lasso), featuring Fielded - Safehouse
• Jay Electronica, featuring Jay-Z - Road To Perdition
• Tristate Gates, featuring Benny The Butcher - NY Native
• Denzel Curry - Live From The Abyss
• TeaFannie, featuring Miss Benzo - Kings
• Jimmy Edgar, featuring Danny Brown - GET UP
• Arrested Development - Becoming
• Denise Chaila, featuring MuRI - Go Bravely
• R.A.P Ferrerira and The Jefferson Park Boys , featuring Open Mike Eagle - PINBALL

Comedian Zoë Coombs Marr says "being a man did wonders for her career," but she steps back into the spotlight as herself in Bossy Bottom, soon streaming online.

Also, we pay tribute to American playwright Terrence McNally who recently died, and we look at the legacies of the plague and other diseases in the performing arts.