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The things that happen at the Olympics…

A lot is being made of our US Rowing team getting a Bronze medal at these Olympics.

But even more is being made out of this picture in which one of the rowers is apparently “more excited” than most Olympians get when being presented with their medal.

However, U.S. Olympic rower Henrik Rummel says he doesn’t have an erection in the pic. He has gone on Reddit to say that he’s not “excited” – that’s just who he is.

“This is me and I swear it’s not erect! I don’t know why it ended up in that position but there you go.”

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Seth Rudetsky deconstructs Barbra Streisand

Seth Rudetsky is a fabulous musician, music director, actor, radio show host and comedian.

I’ve known Seth for many years going back to 1991 when I worked on an off-Broadway show called PAGEANT with him.

Fast forward to today, and among many other things, Seth is famous for “deconstructing” performances from classic Broadway music recordings.

I’ve loved them for so long and decided The Randy Report readers might enjoy them too. So today I’m going to start with Seth – at the 2004 Gypsy of the Year fundraising event – deconstructing some of his favorite Barbra Streisand recorded moments.

Enjoy.

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Staging Sweet Charity: “Big Spender” – sans bar

So, one last postscript to my journey staging “Sweet Charity” this summer…

Two days after the show opened, for some inexplicable reason, the ladies of the Fandango Ballroom – after oozing their sexy selves backwards downstage at the start of the iconic “Big Spender” number – turned to face the audience for their introductory lines and found no bar on which to pose. Nothing. For reasons unknown, the bar did not come out onstage.

So the ladies, on the fly (so to speak), had to improvise the poses on the bar. Many of those poses required a bar on which to pose.

Word came back to me about the mishap AND that the ladies did a terrific job of getting through the number.

However, the men of the ensemble decided to have some fun reenacting the event – with a few modifications you might guess.

The beginning of the video is funniest just in how each “dancer” turns to find no bar, and how it affected what pose they would take…

You might have to know SWEET CHARITY well to get this, but I think you will all get the gist.

Thanks men for the laugh.