Cyndi Lauper, an unannounced guest, sang along on her own "Time After Time" (which Mr. Davis recorded) and in a combination of "Sea and Sky (Blue in Green and Irving Berlinin's "Blue Skies".
Whitney Houston, a surprise guest, sang part of "The Greatest Love of All" with Mr. Anthony, letting him peal out her old melody while she toyed with sultry, jazzy asides.
There is no doubt that the content and tone of the comments about Romney's family crossed a line — one guest sang a line from a "Sesame Street" song asking, "Which of these things just doesn't belong?" A precisely detonated outrage followed, swift and indignant, in tweets and blog posts gleefully declaring Harris-Perry, or liberals more broadly, the "real" racists.
Most important, there's poetry, from the compulsory "Address to a Haggis" ("Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o' the puddin'-race!") to more modern offerings, like the number from "Funny Girl" that one guest sang at my parents' Burns Night a few years back.
It was all about the story and Anne letting her guest sing those lines and she'd sing the answer.
"See My Vest" is a parody of the song "Be Our Guest", sung by Jerry Orbach in the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast.
Right now I'm most excited to drop this in one of my sets because I'm planning on having a special guest sing live on it in Ibiza soon.
Scully, who agreed that the idea was good, came in the following day with complete lyrics that he wrote for "See My Vest", which was a parody of the song "Be Our Guest", sung by Jerry Orbach in the 1991 film Beauty and the Beast.
Other songs included "Be Our Guest," sung (in its original version) to Maurice by the objects when he becomes the first visitor to eat at the castle in a decade, "Gaston," a solo for the swaggering villain, "Human Again," a song describing Belle and Beast's growing love from the objects' perspective, the love ballad "Beauty and the Beast," and the climactic "The Mob Song".
It ended more than three hours later with the assembled guests singing Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's "Here's to Us," from the show "Little Me".
