Pat Suzuki
Pat Suzuki born Chiyoko Suzuki(Japanese: 鈴木千代子, September 22, 1930, Cressey, California) is an American popular singer and actress, who is best known for her role in the original Broadway production of the musical Flower Drum Song, and her performance of the song "I Enjoy Being a Girl" in the show.
Career
Suzuki is a Nisei or second-generation Japanese American. She was nicknamed "Chibi", which is Japanese for 'short person' or 'small child', as the youngest sister.
A few months after the United States entered World War II, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt forced the Suzuki family and more than 110,000 other Japanese American residents of the U.S. Pacific coast states, to evacuate their homes and enter American concentration or detention camps. The Suzukis were sent to the Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado.
During the early 1950s, she attended college at San Jose State University. After moving to New York, she obtained a part in a touring production of the play, The Teahouse of the August Moon.
Stranger in Paradise (song)
"Stranger in Paradise" is a popular song from the musical Kismet (1953), and is credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest. Like all the music in that show, the melody was taken from music composed by Alexander Borodin (1833 –1887), in this case, the "Gliding Dance of the Maidens", from the Polovtsian Dances in the opera Prince Igor (1890). The song in the musical is a lovers' duet and describes the transcendent feelings that love brings to their surroundings. Later versions were mostly edited to be sung by male solo artists.
Meaning
In Act 1 of the story told in the musical Kismet, the beautiful Marsinah is viewing the garden of a house her father wishes to buy. The young Caliph, who is dressed in disguise, has already been struck by her beauty from afar and enters the garden pretending to be a gardener, so that he might speak to her. She begins to sing about how the garden has been strangely transformed before her eyes. He takes over the song and sings about how he, too strangely feels he has entered paradise when he stands beside an angel such as she. In the song he asks for an indication that she feels the same way about him. Though she feels a strong draw to him she breaks from the song and asks him a mundane question about what flowers to plant. He asks her to meet him again in the garden at moonrise, and she instantly agrees. He asks her to promise she'll keep her rendezvous, and she now takes up the song, singing that it was his face that had made her feel in paradise. They now sing together that they are in bliss in each other's company and how much they need to know the other cares.
Stranger in Paradise
Stranger in Paradise may refer to:
See also
Stranger in Paradise (short story)
"Stranger in Paradise" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was written in the summer of 1973 for an anthology of original stories edited by Judy-Lynn del Rey, but was rejected by her. It was also rejected by Ben Bova for Analog Science Fiction and Fact before being accepted for If magazine, where it appeared in the May–June 1974 issue. The story was reprinted in the collections The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories (1976) and The Complete Robot (1982).
Plot summary
Anthony Smith and William Anti-Aut are full brothers who live in a post-catastrophe world where, due to concerns about humanity's limited genetic diversity, full siblings are rare (and identical twins are nonexistent). Not only are they full brothers, they also look alike, which is totally unheard of.
William pursues a career in genetic engineering, referred to as homology, and has been trying to understand and cure Autism, hence his chosen surname. Anthony has gone into telemetrics, and is working on the Mercury Project, the purpose of which is to send a robot to Mercury. This is a problem because the positronic brain at the time is not yet adapted to such an environment, so a computer on Earth must direct the robot. However, the speed of light communications lag between Earth and Mercury can last up to twenty-two minutes, making computer control difficult. Anthony attempts to solve this problem by recruiting a homologist that can design a positronic brain that resembles a human brain. The leading homologist in this area is his brother William, and much to their mutual embarrassment, the two wind up working together.
Podcasts:
Pat Suzuki
ALBUMS
- Pure... Musicals released: 2013
- Ultra-Lounge: Ciao bella! released: 2009
- Broadway: The American Musical released: 2004
- Broadway: The Great Original Cast Recordings released: 1999
- Music for a Bachelor's Den, Volume 8: Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi, the Brunettes released: 1996
- Golden Hits of the Silver Screen released: 1996
- The Great American Composers: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Volume 1 released: 1993
- The Best of Broadway, Volume 2: The Sullivan Years (disc 1) released: 1993
- Swingers: Music for the International Jet Set released:
- The Very Best Of ¡Mucho Gusto! released:
Pure... Musicals
Released 2013- 1. Cabaret: Cabaret (Clean)
- Annie: Tomorrow (Clean)
- Johanna
- If I Were a Rich Man
- We're in the Money
- Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
- Getting to Know You
- Somewhere
- Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'
- Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee
- Children Will Listen
- Sirens
- Aquarius
- There's a Fine, Fine Line
- Good Morning Baltimore (Clean)
- When You Got It, Flaunt It (Clean)
- Roxie
Ultra-Lounge: Ciao bella!
Released 2009- Way, paesano (Uei... paesano)
- Volare (Nel blu dipinto di blu)
- Barcarolle
- The Triche Trache (The Tree-Kay Trah-Kay)
- When in Rome (I Do as the Romans Do)
- Ciao
- Atsa Nice's
- Cappuccina (1996 digital remaster)
- Portofino
- Come On-A My House
- Tik-A-Tee, Tik-A-Tay (Tica-Ti, Tica-Tay)
- Italian Street Song
- The Piccolino
- Buona sera
- Arrivederci Roma
Broadway: The American Musical
Released 2004- Music Man: Seventy-Six Trombones
- Flower Drum Song: I Enjoy Being a Girl
- Gypsy: Everything's Coming Up Roses
- The Sound of Music: My Favorite Things
- Bye Bye Birdie: Put on a Happy Face
- Fantasticks: Try to Remember
- Camelot: Camelot
- Carnival! Love Makes the World Go 'round
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying: I Believe in You
- No Strings: The Sweetest Sounds
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Comedy Tonight
- Stop the World, I Want to Get Off: What Kind of Fool Am I
- Oliver! As Long as He Needs Me
- Hello, Dolly! Hello, Dolly!
- Funny Girl: People
- Anyone Can Whistle: Anyone Can Whistle
- Fiddler on the Roof: If I Were a Rich Man
- Golden Boy: Night Song
- Man of La Mancha: The Impossible Dream
- Sweet Charity: If My Friends Could See Me Now
- Mame: Open a New Window
Music for a Bachelor's Den, Volume 8: Sex Kittens in Hi-Fi, the Brunettes
Released 1996- You Hit the Spot
- What Wouldn't I Do for That Man
- Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You?
- I'm Thru With Love
- Love Dance
- I'd Rather Be Burned as a Witch
- Daddy (feat. Henry Rene & His Orchestra)
- Watch What Happens
- Baby Won't You Please Come Home
- Where Flamingos Fly
- If I Could Be With You (feat. Phil Moore & His Orchestra)
- Pennies From Heaven
- I Found a Brand New Baby
- Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
Golden Hits of the Silver Screen
Released 1996- Aren't You Glad You're You
- The More I See You
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- Love Is Here to Stay
- Love Walked In
- Over the Rainbow
- Cheek to Cheek
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Thanks for the Memory
- A Fine Romance
- My Foolish Heart
- I Had the Craziest Dream
- Unchained Melody
- I Don't Want to Walk Without You
- The Shadow of Your Smile
- Like Someone in Love
- Moon River
- It Could Happen to You
- Call Me Irresponsible
- Something's Gotta Give
The Great American Composers: Rodgers & Hammerstein, Volume 1
Released 1993- Oh, What a Beautiful Morning
- A Wonderful Guy
- Hello, Young Lovers
- It Might as Well Be Spring
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Many a New Day
- My Girl Back Home
- The Gentleman Is a Dope
- The Surrey With the Fringe on Top
- Something Wonderful
- This Nearly Was Mine
- Loneliness of Evening
- People Will Say We're in Love
- What's the Use of Wondering
- There Is Nothing Like a Dame
- Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful
- In My Own Little Corner
- I Enjoy Being a Girl
- Shall We Dance
- My Favorite Things
- Do Re Mi
The Best of Broadway, Volume 2: The Sullivan Years (disc 1)
Released 1993- June Is Bustin' Out All Over
- If I Loved You
- Soliloquy
- Younger Than Springtime
- We Kiss in a Shadow
- I Enjoy Being a Girl
- Medley: No Strings / The Sweetest Sounds
- Stranger in Paradise
- What Kind of Fool Am I?
- Who Can I Turn To?
- Come Rain or Come Shine
- Night and Day
- So in Love
- Wunderbar
- Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
- If My Friends Could See Me Now
Swingers: Music for the International Jet Set
- Night and Day
- What the World Needs Now Is Love
- Spooky
- Goin' Out of My Head
- (They Long to Be) Close to You
- Sunny
- Mack the Knife
- Ain't That a Kick in the Head
- Quando, Quando, Quando
- It's Not Unusual
- Cheryl Moana Marie
- I Say a Little Prayer
- Up, Up and Away
- Mas que nada
- This Guy's in Love With You
- Do You Know the Way to San Jose
- Goldfinger
- Fever
- Summer Breeze
- Call Me
- Music to Watch Girls By
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by Ten Tenors
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by Della Reese
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by Isaac Hayes
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by Tindrum
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by Engelbert Humperdinck
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by The Supremes
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by Diana Ross
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by Tony Bennett
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by Kismet Soundtrack
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by Sarah Brightman
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by Aled Jones
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by Four Aces
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by The Four Aces Featuring Al Alberts
Stranger In Paradise
by: Ten TenorsTake my hand
I'm a stranger in paradise
All lost in a wonderland
A stranger in paradise
If I stand starry-eyed
That's the danger in paradise
For mortals who stand beside an angel like you
I saw your face and I ascended
Out of the commonplace into the rare
Somewhere in space I hang suspended
Until I'm certain that there's a chance that you care
Won't you answer this fervent prayer
Of a stranger in paradise
Don't send me in dark despair
From all that I hunger for
But open your angel's arms
To this stranger in paradise
And tell him that he need be