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August, 2013
The Music Man
Fr 02
The Music Man (preview)
Sa 03
The Music Man
Su 04
The Music Man
Fr 09
The Music Man
Sa 10
The Music Man
Su 11
The Music Man
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Tuesday Aug 6
10:00 a
Buck Privates
5:00 p
Early Hollywood
8:00 p
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
Wednesday Aug 7
10:00 a
Gold Diggers of 1935
12:30 p
Busby Berkeley
1:30 p
Thanks For The Memory
5:00 p
Harry Warren, Ace Songwriter
8:00 p
Smile
Thursday Aug 8
10:00 a
Casablanca
12:30 p
Casablanca: Play It Sam
1:30 p
As Time Goes By
7:00 p
Body And Soul
Friday Aug 9
10:00 a
The Road To Morocco
12:30 p
Meredith Willson & The Music Man
1:30 p
I Love To Singa
5:00 p
Bing Crosby
8:00 p
Going My Way
Saturday Aug 10
10:00 a
Flying Down To Rio
5:00 p
Fred & Ginger at RKO
8:00 p
Shall We Dance
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I'm Building Up To An Awful Let-Down
(1935)
Johnny Mercer
(w),
Fred Astaire
(m)
Lyrics
Heard at The Shedd...
I'm Building Up To An Awful Let-Down
1935
Johnny Mercer (w)
Fred Astaire(m)
Rise And Shine, 1936
VERSE
I'm like Humpty Dumpty
Upon the garden wall:
I'm riding high,
And who can deny
That whatever goes up must fall?
Poor old Humpty Dumpty,
He got the toughtest break;
And yet his fall
Was nothing at all
Like the tumble I'm gonna take.
REFRAIN
I'm building up to an awful letdown
By playing around with you.
You're breaking down my terrific buildup
By treating me as you do.
My castles in the air,
My smile so debonair,
My one big love affair,
Is it just a flash?
Will it all go smash,
Like the nineteen twenty-nine market crash?
I'm building up to an awful letdown
By falling in love with you.
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