The Inner Circle

Attended the Inner Circle show at the New York Hilton last night. Good friend Rich Lamb of Newsradio 880 was superb as Mayor Mike Bloomberg, complete with his rendition of "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" The Clash would have been proud. Other standouts included WOR's Shelly Strickler as startruck astronaut Lisa Nowak (costumed in a diaper and a NASA flight suit); and Channel 11 anchor Mary Murphy, who seems to have missed her calling as a tap dancer. After the journalists finished their performance, Mayor Bloomberg himself took to the stage with the cast of Broadway's hit musical "Mary Poppins." The humorous send-up, which focused on Mayor Mike's campaign to make New Yorkers more healthy, featured tunes such as "Just a Spoonful of Transfats (Makes Cholesterol Go Up)" and ended with a rousing rendition of "Brooklynqueensthebronxandstatenislandandmanhattan," sung to the tune of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." The surprise finale was Bloomberg's foisting of an umbrella and rising right off the stage and into the air, declaring he was categorically not running for president (maybe). The Inner Circle---a group of hammy New York journos who perform a two-act play each year that lampoons politics both in New York and on the national scene--is 85 years young in 2007. Photos courtesy of Brian Nielsen. %%showphotos [setid=72157602750589969]%%