[audience cheering. band stops playing as JL loops a sample of Gene Autry's "Here Comes Santy Claus", then slowly comes back in] //
JL: the horns. [applause] onstage, offstage, onstage, offstage! they're my sister, they're my daughters! [audience laughter]
JF: you're scaring me with your stage banter, John. [laughter]
JL: ahh, I'm working on some new... new bits. we're workshoppin'. [laughter]
JF: (quietly) yeah, this is the workshop. (exaggerating Brooklyn accent) these people who have been waitin' 2-and-a-half years to see the show, John! [JL laughs; loud cheering] these people want an (unintelligible) effort!
JL: (same accent) well this is watcha get! this is it! I'm sorry!
JF: ladies and gentlemen, arrest this band! [cheering continues]
JL: (laughs) put da cuffs on! I gotta be me! [more laughter]
JF: I'm just.. really enjoying that cup of coffee. that you're drinking. [laughter] I'm ready when you are, John.
JL: (mid-century transatlantic announcer voice) this! is the sound of the '30s! [cheering] the sound of the swing era! kind of scratchy after all these years. if only it sounded like this:
[the band improvises a brief jazz tune together]
JL: what a difference! why, it's like being back in Frank Dailey's Meadowbrook; the Glen Island Casino; the Avalon Ballroom. or one of the other great dance halls! but try to recapture that sound on your old 78s? and you're in for a disappointment.
[band resumes loudly improvising jazz melodies, pausing whenever JL holds a note in falsetto or speaks/sings]
JL: (deep voice) I'mmmm ice-skaaating around the woooorld. [cheering] with my frieeeeeennnds! OHHH I lost one of my GLOVES! auh I lost the other glove! I - broke - my - tooth! I DON'T LIKE ICE SKATING, ANYMORE!
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