Today, my students I've been working with since the end of September start their one weekend run of The Philadelphia Story. The singers and a student piano player are performing my original arrangements of 1930s/40s standards as varied as Kurt Weill/Ogden Nash's "Speak Low," George/Ira Gershwin's "Nice Work (If You Can Get It)," and Louis Atler/Sidney D. Mitchell's "You Turned the Tables on Me." It's a strong group of young female singers, so I coached them to pull inspiration from Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, and Ella Fitzgerald. The director wanted Frank Sinatra and I spun that to the abilities of the young performers. Sadly, their prerecord of "Cheek to Cheek" for the curtain call didn't work out, so we're stuck with using one of the big inspirations for the program instead.

Swoon.