Show Man
Danny has been rehearsing all week with his high school "show band". That's the band that plays in the pit during performances of his high school musical production. Danny is third trumpet, which means he occasionally plays "toot" and "tootly-toot-toot" during the songs. Third trumpets don't see a whole lot of sustained musical action.
His high school's production this year is Annie Get Your Gun. I've never seen it but I know Ethel Merman starred in it when I was a kid. Ethel had a loud voice. I told Danny that's pretty much all I know about Annie and Ethel.
He's cool with that.
K-
Ethel was an original, wasn't she? She had comedic gifts, too. I still howl at the last scene of "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" and I've seen it at least 20 times.
I don't know that I've seen it. For me, Ethel Merman is one of those people who I know about but haven't ever seen in anything.
K-
Please rent that one, Kem.