Happy Birthday, Jessie Mueller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                             Theater Queens and cultural connoisseurs have reason to celebrate.  Today is Jessie Mueller's birthday, and the actress with the most glorious voice on Broadway of this era is--can you believe it, girls? --39!!!!!!!!!!!!   It seems like Jessie only recently arrived, and that she has been part of the theater scene forever, both at once.

                                                 I will go out on a limb and say Jessie, not Sutton Foster, should be the current Marian in "The Music Man," or she, not Beanie Feldstein, should be playing Fanny Brice in the forthcoming "Funny Girl."  Jessie played Marian at Kennedy Center in D.C., (with Norm Lewis as Harold Hill) and I know she is anxious to reveal her dramatic chops in the Tracy Letts play "The Minutes," which I actually want to see.

                                                    But Jessie will always be dear to us lovers of musical theater.  Have a happy day, do what you want, and we look forward to many more years of that glorious voice.

                                                      Jessie is a true Broadway treasure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      I have posted this before, but listen to Jessie sing "Goodnight, My Someone.

                                       THIS is how Marian should sound!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!