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YouTube is such a gift! Last week they suggested I watch this clip of "Sing For Your Supper." The unlikely trio is Roberta Peters (star of the Metropolitan Opera), Donna McKechnie (triple threat Tony winner for A Chorus Line) and Kaye Ballard (brassy belter and comedienne). It made me think of this other unlikely trio: Joan Sutherland (star of the Met, Covent Garden, La Scala, etc), Dinah Shore (honey-voiced girl singer), and Ella Fitzgerald (jazz singer extraordinaire). What

I'd never heard of María Nieves Rego (died at 91) but she had a major role in a Broadway show I love. She and her dance partner and onetime husband Juan Carlos Copes were stars of Tango Argentino, which I was nutty for back in the 90s. The cast recording might have been the first thing I owned on cassette tape and then upgraded to CD. Here's the two of them doing their thing: It says a lot about me that when I think of Ted Turner (died at 87) I don't think of him as the man w