girl crazy

I can only imagine how glorious it must have been to hear Ethel Merman and Ginger Rogers in “Girl Crazy” in a theater with no amplification — or John Raitt, who could have been a Verdi baritone, singing Billy’s “Soliloquy” in “Carousel.”

Try as Carlisle might to champion for the casual, there’s a reason ZZ Top never sang: “Every girl crazy ’bout a Dri-FIT polo.”

“Amped up on bennies, she would be worked to near-collapse on films like ‘Girl Crazy,’ with director Busby Berkeley pushing her to the limit to complete his elaborate concepts.

After a lot of non-Equity jobs, he landed a role in “Crazy for You,” the 1992 Broadway adaptation of George Gershwin’s “Girl Crazy.”

But when you listen to her sing ‘But Not for Me’ in ‘Girl Crazy,’ it’s one of the most poignant, beautiful things you’ll ever want to hear.”