2018 MDT Broadway Review Monday

Riverton's Music Dance Theater performs their 2018 Broadway review "You Will Be Found" on January 9, featuring student-led performances from shows like Wicked, In the Heights, and Dear Evan Hansen. Students share personal reflections on gender, ambition, and mental health between musical numbers, closing with the title song about loneliness and hope.
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2016, written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, and John Legend. It won Oscars for cinematography, directing, best original music score, production design, and best actress, Emma Stone. The song "Just Another Day of Sun" opens the film and was originally done in 3 shots, but editing gave it the illusion of one single take.
Hi everyone and welcome to MDT's Broadway review, You Will Be Found. We are so excited to show you these numbers we've been working on since July and we hope that you like them.
Every year, Riverton's music dance theater program works with Mr. Kelly Dahan to bring this musical review to life. An award-winning choir teacher at West Jordan High School, a frequent and phenomenal music director and performer at Hale Center Theater, and a massive supporter of our MDT program, in our corner of the school Mr.
Dahan is a huge celebrity.
Thank you so much, Kelly, for being willing to share your time and talents with us tonight to make this review possible.
Please join me in welcoming Mr. Kelly Dunham.
Thank you all so much for coming, and we hope you will enjoy You Will Be Found. The Pirate Queen debuted off-Broadway in 2005 and on Broadway in 2007 with music written by Claude-Michel Schönberg and lyrics by by Alain Dubot, Richard Mulpey Jr., and John Dempsey. It is based on Morgan Llewellyn's historical fiction, Grania: She-King of the Irish Seas, about the life and adventures of chieftain and pirate Grace O'Malley. The show is set in 16th century Ireland where a clan of pirates led by Dubhadara O'Malley reign on the seas. His daughter Grace dreams of being a sailor despite her father telling her it can't be done, that a woman on board is bad luck. Grace, played by Mackenzie Gunther, expresses her frustrations with the childhood sweetheart about being a woman in a world full and he wants to keep her ashore. Can I present to you the song, woman?
Woman, I am born. What does woman mean? Must my dreams face scorn? Held back and unseen. I long for fire. Must it stay unreal? Can I not desire? Am I not to feel? If I ache to taste, am I not to try? If my heart says fail, why must I deny? I have my dreams, I have my plans, I see horizons wide as a man's. Must I be nothing till I'm some man's wife? Look at this face, does it deceive? Do I look made to milk at your wheel? I will be damned to hell if that is my life. Blasphemy, I know, forgive me. But I won't take it back, I won't. I'm almost your age, I'm your magic size, I best you with swords, an equal in most lies. But when you have a dream and your cord is ripped, you can climb aboard a ship You can, you can, for your man. You can reach the Lord, that place where the earth meets the sky. Fight the battle, be brave, be true. If you can do it, why not I? I meant to fly, sailing straight. Why is that green woman chained? Is that my epitaph? Before I die, I should be free, free to be Grace. I want to feel the wind on my face, and then I thought I should go face out the storm. Not able, am I to be just woman? No, not I.
Played by Tanner Sutton, and his quest to save innocents from the guillotine.
He takes on the disguise of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a masked hero and vigilante. He convinces his closest friends, played by the MBT men, to take on the disguise in the song the creation of men, Percy is teaching the men how to dress elegantly to impress the Prince of Wales, who has grown suspicious of the Pimpernel.
Gentlemen, our duty is It is not to rush into battle, but to rush to the table! Peacocks, seed maize, and geese serve. Harvestmen and boys love to flaunt their tails. Stallions, hounds serve. Hounds serve sacks. Of the goosey and the jammer, so much better is the grammar. So the grand eternal panner, so the splatter is the mess. But Percy, I cannot be seen to flaunt about in pink chiffon. Ozzy, whatever we must do to deflecting suspicions we shall do. And this case, it's to— shiver. Be an example to yourselves. Give your boots a dapper strap. And it's smarter if your garter has some snap. Crocs should be gloves on that tarmac. Wear a tank top when you nap. Be bewitching with some stitching on your cap. Naturally, your cape out half your embroider those mocktails, be the king of the feast in pastels. Love is someone has to strike the pose, and then the waiter will take a close, and that is why the Lord created man. You're in need to prove that they quite make you serve. All this sex work, all this sending the dressing to the women. Let me be a Roman. What a tunic! Bandoliers! Shakespeare! The man has lost his senses! Bandoliers! We must convince all of England that we are indeed— naked nobs! Struts, sir! What, sir? Roosters, do! Give a cock its comb and a hen's bit, tell! Butts, more! More, sir! More, sir! Rats! So good an ego to kill, sir, whose beard is fully white, sir, is mourning for the Billy, for his Billy Billy men! Though the male animal is dashing, of course. Robins, red-breast moose. With excellence. You can get away with this, but for the rest of us— Sir, be a lion-hearted dragon. Fills the battle looms with light. Like a dangle down a spangle, out of sight. Oh yes, be bold, sir. When strokes drop on that maiden, try your greatest. Witches sing quite tight. Even more so when your torso will ignite! And swap your rocksighty on your limbs! Let my waistcoat swing! And the jungle will bow to its king! Love, but someone has to strike a pose. And bear the weight of mountain clothes. And that is why the Lord created man. Yes, that is why the Lord created man. Lord created us. Gentlemen, remember what we're here for. Why we must be dressed to kill. If we have to look like Cleopatra, then we will. If you're apt to make a splash, Jerry, you know you'll have a dastardly buttons, buckles, ruffles, and lace for presents. The human remains. By Marvin Hamlisch and directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett, opened on Broadway in July of 1975.
In acroballet, Sheila, played by Ari Curtis, Bibi, played by Mariah played by Ellie Lawson, explain their experiences with their troubled family lives and their escape through dance. No matter how dark the rest of their world seems, they always feel happy, beautiful, and engaged at the ballet.
Well, let's face it, my home scene wasn't good. Daddy always thought that he married beneath him. That's what he said.
That's what he said when he proposed.
He informed my mother he was probably her very best guess. And though she was 22, though she was 22, though she was 22, she married him. Life with my dad wasn't ever a picnic, more or less a come-as-you-are. When I was 5, I remember my mother's doggy rings out in the car. I knew that they weren't hers, but it wasn't something you'd want to discuss. He wasn't warm.
Well, not to her. Well, not to us.
But everything was beautiful at the ballet. Graceful men, lovely girls in white. Yes, everything was beautiful. At the ballet. I was happy at the ballet.
That's when I started class.
Up the steep and very narrow stairway, to the voice like a mantra, no. Up the steep and very narrow stairway. Was in paradise, was in paradise, it was in paradise, but It was long. Mother always said I'd be very attractive when I grew up, when I grew up.
Different, she said, with a special something and a very, very personal flair.
And though I was 8 or 9, though I was 8 or 9, though I was 8 or 9. I hated her. Now different is nice, but sure isn't pretty. Pretty is what it's about. I never met anyone who was different who couldn't figure that out. So beautiful, I never lived to see.
But it was clear, if not to her, Hold on to me.
That everyone is beautiful at the ballet. Every prince has got to have this one. Yes, everyone is beautiful at the ballet. Up the ridgey, up to the valley. Up the steep and very narrow stairway to the voice like a natural glow. Up the steep and very narrow stairway. It was in paradise. It was in paradise. It was in paradise. But it was home. I don't know what they were for or against, really, except each other. I mean, I was born to save their marriage. But when my father came to pick my mother up from the hospital, he said, well, I thought this was going to help, but I guess it's not. Anyway, I did have a fantastic fantasy life. I used to dance around the living room with my arms up like this. I think it was Auntie and she would say to me, "Maggie, do you want to dance?" And I'd say, "Daddy, I would love to dance." If it wasn't in YouTube, then he'd say, "Daddy, do you want to dance?" And I'd say, "Daddy, I would love to!" Everything's beautiful at the ballet. Raise your arms, son, don't stare. Everything was beautiful at the ballet.
At the ballet. At the ballet.
Yes, everything was beautiful at the ballet. I was happy. I was happy. I loved it at the ballet.
A manager, one player falls in love with the other.
We now present Quartet from Chess.
We wish you no must make our of disgust at this of his perfectly clear. We're here for chess. Are the U.S. in so wipeout the atmosphere? We're here for chess.
Are the U.S. in so wipe out the atmosphere?
We wish no must-ya, may-ah-ya discuss that this fellow is perfect. It's weird. All we're here for, just got me speechless. My heart has ceased. It's such a grapefruit.
By nose and toes, you understand the strain of my forgetting where his thoughts were when you simply called me.
I strongly don't suppose that he is one of those Carmel Dean is an up-and-coming musical director and composer from Western Australia who received a scholarship and graduated from NYU's Graduate of Music musical theater writing program. She has now been able to work on and off Broadway. In 2012, in collaboration with Sarah Underwood, a heartfelt song was written for the not-yet-realized show Action Park, in which Jerry, played by Sam Cooper, a socially awkward young man, finally gets up the courage to ask his crush to go on a ride home together in No One Goes to a Music Park Alone.
Come on, let's go ride the log float.
The log float! Pretty awesome.
Sorry, it's only 2 to a log.
2 to a log, you can't fit 3, no room room for my company. Makes perfect sense. I should have known. I mean, no one goes to an amusement park alone. Side by side, they're in midair in nonstop play. Playing solitaire. Did I hear a voice? Nope, just my own. No one goes to an amusement park alone. Maybe flying solo's not so bad. There's— they're trying to sell flat. I can stop or go or sit right here. There's no one to object. I can ride the highest coaster and not worry about my hair. And there's no one to be brave for when I scream into the air. Oh my gosh, this is awesome! Isn't this awesome? Oh, to ride this ride, you must be this tall. What can I ride when I feel this small? There's so much to see but nothing to Be sure here at this amusement park.
By Louisa May Alcott. The Broadway production opened at the Virginia Theatre in 2005. This show is about 4 sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, portraying their lives from childhood to womanhood. In the second act, we find Beth saying goodbye to Jo, telling her that she is not afraid to move on because she has been blessed to have a great family and great friends. She then shares that even if she moves on, Jo needs to keep on going.
The women of MDT proudly present "Some Things Are Meant to Be." We're flying through the air. We'll ascend until we're out of sight. Light as paper, no soul. Let's be one, high as the air.
Feel the wind.
The world are our companions. This joy I feel, let it never end. Floating far from the shore, as the waves are meant to be. The clouds only pass in dreams, the sun of silver see a sky that's bright and blue. And some things will never end. Thrill of our magic ride, love that I feel inside. For you, we'll climb high on the break of day. Sleep on star dust and dine on bits of blue. You and I will find the Milky Way. We'll be bound in hand and explore. We'll recline alongside the mountain on the breeze. Guard the birds, guard the clouds. Sail on infinity. Bless the days to be holy as we please. That's what living is for. What things are to be. The tide turning and the sea waves exploding. No matter what I do, it's something that will never hide the promise of who you are. Memories will I am far from you. All my life I have lived for loving you. Let me go now.
The mystery of Edmund Drew is an interactive musical written by Rupert Holmes, but based off the unfinished novel of the same name written by Charles Dickens. It's a classic whodunit murder mystery with a twist of multiple endings. The end murderer is determined by the audience, then the cast and crew finish the show accordingly. The song "Both Sides of the Coin" is a duet involving one of the suspects, John Jasper, played by Mikey Rowe, and the mayor, Thomas Sapsky, played by Noah a hooker. Jasper has a split personality who sings the song in a literal sense, while Sachi has just been in several confusing scenes with a last-minute actor.
I don't know myself these days, for all I know my mind feels there's more than enough of you inside my mind. I am likewise in a haze of who I am seen the same was more we two before. I mean, are we divided? Or is it I? Or is it me? And it might be, and it might be each one of us might not agree on what to do. But if I take opposing side between myself, then who divides the waters for I? I'll go along with you.
Next to Normal, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 3 Tony Awards, is a rock musical that opened to Broadway audiences in 2009. Next to Normal follows a mother, Deanna, who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder. She goes in and out of psychiatric treatments, lovingly supported by her patient husband. The couple's intelligent and overachieving daughter, Natalie, is in high school and has difficulty dealing with her chaotic home life.
Maybe I've lost it at last. Maybe my last lucid moment has passed. I'm dancing with death, I suppose.
But really, who knows?
Could be I'm crazy to go. They say you should stay with the devil you know. But when life needs a change and the one devil won't You fly to the devil, you don't. Maybe I'm tired of the game, of coming up short, of the rules, of the shame. And maybe you feel that way too. I see me in you. A girl full of anger and hope. A girl with a mother who just couldn't cope. A girl who felt caught and thought no one could see. But maybe one day she'll be free. So lovely that you're sharing. Really, I'm all ears. But where has all this caring been for 16 years? For all the years I prayed that you'd go away for good. After time, I prayed When I thought we might be dying, I cried for all we never knew. But there'll be no more crying, not for me. When you're there, you'll see, not for me, you'll see. Me, you'll see. Not for you'll see. Not for you'll see. Maybe we can't be okay. But maybe we're tough and try anyway. Live with what's real. Let go of what's past. And maybe I'll see you at last. I tried to give you a normal life, but I realize now I have no clue what that is.
I don't know.
Mean a life that's normal, that's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Yeah, something next to normal, that's the thing I'd like to try.
Close enough to normal to get You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy based on Charles M. Schulz's famous comic strip Peanuts. The musical originally premiered on March 1st, 1967. 32 years later, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown was revived on Broadway and starred Tony winners Kristin Chenoweth and Roger Bart. In the song Happiness, Charlie Brown, played by Teddy Wolfram, expresses what makes him happy to his friends Schroeder, played by Sam Cooper, Linus, played by Connor played by Sierra Glitter, Lucy played by Brooklyn Paxman, and Patty played by Savannah Cobb. Eventually Charlie realizes that being a good man means trying your best and making the most of the things you've been given in life.
I'm so happy that little red-haired girl dropped her pencil. It has teeth marks She nibbles her pencil. She's human! I guess today hasn't been such a bad day after all. Happiness is finding a pencil.
He's always laughing, smelling good as pie.
Happiness is learning to wiggle, tying your shoe for the very first time.
Happiness is playing the drum in your own school band.
And happiness is walking hand in hand. Happiness is two kinds of ice cream.
We can see this climbing a tree.
Happiness is five different crayons catching a firefly, setting him free. Happiness Happiness is being alone every now and then. And happiness is coming home again. Happiness is morning and evening, daytime and nighttime too. For happiness This is anyone and anything at all. That's love by you. Happiness is having a sister, sharing a sandwich, getting along.
Happiness is singing together when day is through, and happiness is those who sing with you.
Happiness is morning and evening, daytime and nighttime, For happiness is any one and any being at all, that's love by you. You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
Inspired by their Grammy-winning collaboration on the 2013 bluegrass album Love Has Come for You, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell wrote and composed the musical Bright Star. Bright Star takes place in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina from 1945 to 1946. With flashbacks back to 1923. It had its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in September of 2014. Later, the musical opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in 2015.
Bright Star began previews at the Cort Theatre on Broadway in February and opened in March of 2016. We are now proud to present "The Sun Is Gonna Shine Again" from Bright Star.
Oh, they broken, feeling lonely to my soul. You got the power, you got You got the faith, you got the strength to go on. You got the light, you got the way.
We're never all alone.
So sweet embraces, so summertime. Hey, you got to fight, you got to say I'm never gonna sit down. You got the night You got the day, I got the old dark cloud. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. Long time I've been waiting. A long time. Long enough. You've got the look, you've got the feel, you've got the face of true love. You've got the charm, you've got appeal. I gotta let him go. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again.
So they tell me it —will be all right. Something tells me it's gonna be okay.
Something tells me it'll be all right. Something tells me it's all gonna go— Sun is gonna shine again. Sun is gonna shine again. Sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again. The sun is gonna shine again.
1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is told from the perspectives of the witches in the Land of Oz. Wicked tells the story of Glinda and Elphaba, Elphaba, who struggle with their opposing viewpoints and personalities, yet form an unlikely bond. Elphaba struggles with power throughout the show and is later known as the Wicked Witch of the West, and Glinda becomes the Good Witch, making them natural enemies in the end. Wicked opened on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre in October of 2003. This past year, it has become Broadway's 7th longest-running musical and the 8th longest-running show. In this next song, Elphaba, played by Gabby Bergstrom, has just learned that her special powers she has may allow her to work with the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, something that she has dreamed of.
This song embodies the anticipations and ambitions that Ethelba has of working with him. This is The Wizard and I.
Did that really just happen? Have I actually understood? This weird quirk I've tried to suppress or hide is a talent that could help me meet the wizard. If I make good So I'll make good when I meet the wizard. Once I proved my worth, and then I meet the wizard, what I waited for since, since birth. And with All his wizard wisdom. By my looks, he won't be blinded. Do you think the wizard is dumb? Or like Munchkins, so small-minded? No, he'll save me. I see who you truly are. A girl on whom I can rely. And that's how we'll be king, the wizard and I. Once I'm a wizard, my whole life will change. 'Cause once you're with a wizard, no one thinks you're strange. No father is not proud of you, no sister acts ashamed, and all of us has to love you. By the wizard, you are plagued. That they skipped you at this curse, I'm happy to find. Maybe I'll still know why when we were candy and the wizard and I. And one day he'll say to me, Elma, a girl who is so superior shouldn't that girl who's so good inside —have a matching exterior, and since folks here to an absurd degree seem fixated on her vertebrae, would it be all right by you if I degraded by you? Of course, that's not important to me. All right, why not? I'll reply, oh, what a pair we'll be. The wizard and I. Guess what a pair we'll be. The wizard and I. Unlimited. My future is unlimited. And I've just had a vision, almost like a prophecy. I know it sounds truly crazy and true. The vision's hazy, but I swear someday there'll be a celebration throughout Oz. That's all to do with me. And I'll stand there with the Wizard, feeling things I've never felt. And though I'd never show it, I'd be so happy I could melt. And so it will be for the rest of my life, little one of you asked till I die, held in such high esteem. When people see me, they will scream, for half of us is a favorite team.
Is a new musical about rockets and big dreams and is based on the 1999 movie of the same name. And the book Rocket Boys. This musical premiered at the Marriott Theatre in Illinois in 2015 and received its West Coast premiere at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre last September. This musical follows a teenage boy living in a small coal mining town who is determined to not end up like the people before him. He wishes to be something greater than his small town and follows along in the ongoing space race as he and his friend shooting homemade rockets into the sky, they dream of the bigger life they hope to have. Featuring Kelly Kahan on vocals and choreography by Corey Wakamatsu, we're now proud to present Look to the Stars from October Sky.
Everything about this town is digging deep and hunker down and stay alive. I've been waiting forever, praying on a change that never came. But someone somewhere far away has built us all a better day and let it shine. And something deep inside of me says nothing's ever gonna be the same. 'Cause when I look to the stars, what once was a wall is now a door. To everything I've been waiting for. Way past Venus and Mars. When I look to the stars, the whole world can see what I can see. I'm right on the edge of history. Into the stars, blackened streaks across the sky, a tiny beacon blazing by, a satellite showing us that we can do whatever no one around here knew we could. Suddenly I understand my moment is arrived, and I swear I reaching past this atmosphere, we might get out of here for good. 'Cause when I look to the stars, they're closer than they have ever seemed. To all the kids who ever dreamed, now the future is ours. When I look to the stars, I learn all the things I need to know to get me as far as I can go. When I look to the stars, I will pledge myself to it. I will learn how to fly. I don't know how I'll do it, but I will try. By God, I'll try. 'Cause when I look to the stars, I no longer feel so alone. with dreams I can hold but never own. Just a glimpse through the bars. I'm gonna shoot for the stars. If poor Cohen Keith has joined the race, I'll write to you all from outer space. I will get to the stars. Oh, I will get to the stars.
We're all in this together.
Once we know that we're not alone, and we see that we're all in this together, then things just understand, and, and make our dreams come true. All together, all together, every one of you together, all together, come on, let's have some fun.
Together, all together, all Wildcats, sing along!
There is got to go on!
Wildcats in the house! Everybody sing along!
Wildcats everywhere, wave your hands up in the air! That's the way we do it, let's get to the top, show the world!
a musical comedy from book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Robbins. It's his second longest-running off-Broadway musical. The musical was nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical in 1997. This show is presented in a form of a series of vignettes connected by the central theme of love and relationships. The scenes stand independent of each other but progress in a fashion designed to suggest an overall theme, the idea of relationship throughout over the course of one's life. The song "A Stud and a Babe" is about an awkward first date and the two characters talking about what the date would be like if they were a stud and a babe. With Julie played by Kate Zangeret, Jason played by Lee Ponsawatz.
Now please enjoy "A Stud and a Babe." Did I mention that I just had my phone fixed? Really?
Yeah. Oh, yes. Wow.
Yep.
Oh, I just remembered the cutest story about my brother.
Oh, what? No, maybe not. No, come on.
Come on. My brother— this is really cute. Yeah, my brother, he has 11 toes.
I sit here trying to impress and make this bag all strong, but every subject I address makes me sound like such a schmuck. It's not that I can't be diverting. Sometimes I can even thrill. But I'd just be so much better at flirting if I only had looks that kill. If I were a star.
If I were a baby. The kind of guy girls love. The kind of girl guys crave.
My chest would be rounder. My hips would be stouter.
My legs would be longer.
My arms would be stronger.
My hair would be flowy. My chest hair would be showing. My hips would be slimmer. My tummy just thinner. Oh, oh, oh, I got a dose that seduces. Oh, oh, oh, she'll be begging me for more. Oh, oh, oh, yeah, tonight I got to give it to her.
Tonight I feel scorned. Yeah!
Astonished. Awakened.
She loves. Him. Raped. Oh! Oh! Oh! If I were so truly being bad at these.
Touch me. Sweet me to you.
You've, uh, you've had some nacho schmutz on your face. Gone. You wiped it to the other side. Now, now it's on your chin. Better. Julie, be honest. I don't have a lot of what you're looking for, do I? No, no, it's me, Julie. I'm not a—
I'm not a babe.
I'm not a guy girls love.
Well, I'm not a girl guys crave. I'm awkward and whiny.
My biceps are tiny.
I'm not too athletic. I'm a bald horse and dead. My nails are all chewed on. My hair is all glued on. My hips don't feel comfy.
Don't mine are real bumpy. Oh, oh, oh.
Every night I'm almost snoring. Oh, oh, oh.
Yeah, I think you really stink.
Oh, oh, oh. I'm homely and I'm boring. Well, I think I'd love more dreams. Yeah! No thanks. No thanks. I love my great—
The Princesses return to Off-Broadway following a sold-out run in the hilarious hit musical That's Anything But Real. This musical opened on December 4th, 2014, and closing shortly after on June 14th, 2015. The Princesses tell their not-so-happily-ever-after. In this number, they pleasantly chat with one another about their common desires. Please welcome NBT Girls and All I Want to Do Is Eat.
Princess complex rule number 23: we're princesses, we never eat. A day. I've never tasted a Milky Way. Buy a pass of Brits. Remove laugh fee. Skip every breakfast buffet. I'm pissed off too. Africa. I'm in love with I take hot yoga just to sweat out each snack. And I haven't eaten since yesterday. 'Cause I'm trying to keep my waistline shrinking. But I just can't help thinking that. All I wanna do is eat a burger. All I wanna do is Hot pockets! Even though princesses are toasting. Grossing, craving, trash dieting, I'm shaving my tail, we're going surfing now. All I want to do is eat hot dogs. All I wanna do is eat hot dogs. Even though princesses are told to run from anything sweet, that doesn't keep me from thinking. A single friend I might meet, sweetie rings, she's perfect, we never part. I don't know, maybe she's prepared. Who's your best friend? I'm staring.
The musical opened on Broadway in March 2017.
It is based off the 2001 romantic comedy film. Amélie is a very lonely girl while she has little contact with other people and the outside world. This leaves Amélie to resort to her own world of dreams of love and beauty. When she grows older, she moves to a central part of Paris and gets a job as a waitress. She spends her time with 3 coworkers: Suzanne, played by Brittany Bellnap, who owns the café and used to be a circus performer; Georgette, a waitress and hypochondriac, played by Mary Tibbetts; and another waitress named Gina, played by Jessica Wolfe.
Emile, Amélie's secret love, portrayed by Gavin Amelie decides to devote her life to helping the people around her, yet she later realizes she needs to seek after her needs and the love she has always dreamed of.
I was working in the circus with my boyfriend. I was flipping for all the hydropes. I'd fly up and he'd always catch me. Everything was going perfect in the circus until the day he dropped me and then dropped me for the tentitude. A lady. She broke her leg in 7 places. I did watch the taxi lady take her place and lost my job, lost my way, till at last I bought this café. It seems that every single guy that I know has another lady on the side. I don't know, our girls are fragile. They break their hearts or practically They don't you. I met the plumber on the metro with a tool belt. He was kind of bald but good with me and fixed my leaky radiator. So you go out on a first date and then it's too late. When you try to leave the jazzy and crazy stalking all comes later. Don't you treat her like a taboring quarter. She's not a waitress who will take your order, bring your food, or fail your review. Except when working at the windmills. It seems that every single guy that strolls by doesn't stop until he controls my neck. Every thought, every move, are you just the same? Can you prove that you, you are a lover for the ages? Can you prove that you are not highly contagious? Oh yes. Love is just another diagnosis, like bacterial hocus pocus. Once you're in, you're committed to everything that you've drifted. If you're gonna be the guy to date her, give her space and don't suffocate her. You might Oh yes.
There's no promises that I can give you. There's no guarantee that we will live to 80 without breaking up or making each other miserable. But you know, I think she understands me. I don't know why. I understand she She may not even feel the same. I love her, but I don't know her name.
Here is her number and address. Amelie Fillon. She's nothing but ass in my life.
She's probably at her apartment.
Waitress was originally a book that was later made into a film in 2007. It finally made its big Broadway debut in April 2016. It has been very successful and was even nominated for 4 Tonys. Waitress tells the story of Jenna Hunterson, a waitress in an unhappy marriage, when she unexpectedly becomes pregnant. She starts an affair with Dr. Jim Pomatter, her gynecologist. Looking for a way out, she sees the grand prize for a pie contest as the chance she's been waiting for.
We will now perform for you Everything Changes. Today's a day like any other, but unchanged. I am a mother all in an instant. And whoever else has disappeared, it doesn't matter. You're here, so listen. I was lost for years of life, and now I'm yours. Two tiny hands, a pair of eyes, an unsung melody is mine. For safekeeping, and I will guard it with my life and hang the moon for it to shine on her sleeping Starting here and starting now, I can feel the hope of how everything changes. and all my mistakes, they sense them and turn them around. Everything changes. My heart was so burdened in pain. It's a clean covenant. There's a new life made from the light. There's a new life made from the light.
I know in due time every right thing will is revolving around the subject of baseball, created by various writers, lyricists, and composers, opening off-Broadway in 1984. Karshen Perkians now performs the song What You'd Call a Dream, with music and lyrics by Greg Cornelia. This piece is about a young boy whose dream is that he hits a home run, winning the game while his father is cheering from the audience.
There are two men out and it's in the ninth and the score is 4-3. There's a man on first and a man on bat and the man on bat is me. I'm sore and scared, but I'm short and proud. And I'm stronger than I seem. And I take a swing. My dad is there. It's what you call a dream. Watch the ball fly to the sun. As it sails off as I run, the crowd is roaring, cheering as I go, so are all the guys on the team. And I run for home, and we win the game. It's what call a dream. A summer sun shines like diamonds. The summer sun shines like diamonds. The summer The summer sun, high, the baseball sky shines like diamonds. The summer sun shines like diamonds. There are two in the house. And it's in the 9th, and the score is 4 to 3. There's a man on first and a man on bat, and the man at bat is me. And it's what you would call A dream.
2013. Young Monty Navarro, played by Gavin Curtis, is a penniless clerk who is informed after the death of his mother that he is in line to inherit the Earldom of Highhurst, controlled by a very wealthy banking family. Monty is also trying to woo the money-minded Sybilla Hallward, played by Ari Baddeley, until he also finds himself drawn to young Phoebe Dycewith, played by Sarah-Jane Hale.
Now present Sweetheart, I've decided to marry you.
What the hell was that? I have to perform this quickly into the bedroom. Listen on, listen on. I have arrived at a stunning conclusion. I am going in on a goosebump assault. It might get kind of difficult to say. I've decided to abandon you. I decided to murder you. I decided to hang you so that the ring goes on for me. I haven't been able to do it. And the method I want to do, those who hear who I can use, strong disagree. Mr. Ice Cream, you've rendered me completely speechless. May I call you Pete? What am I doing here? This could be dangerous. You I'm just scarred with a bad news scandal and I'm an intact scandal of principle, half seen, visible, still asking me, but what's going on in there? I can hear voices I recognize, but even is that a woman? And if that's a woman, then what is she doing here? Is it that cousin I wish I would see? If it's that cousin, it's my business. If it's family business, then none of my business. But why is she here? No one matters. Of course, I could point out that I'm here as well, but does she not realize the situation? But her This is quite the mess, old Gideon. We're out of a turn of the fork, and so I think we will say, why don't you send the cow away? Because when I was told this day, I think I'll die. What was that?
What was what? That's nothing. It's just my new manservant. He's finding his way about. I'll be with you in a moment. Wadsworth?
No.
Is it this madness? Who could foresee how much of a time it could ruin it all? One in the parlor, one in the bedroom, nothing between but me and a wall of graffiti. No, the pie is biased, he only grows. But when I feed the eye of a Fine, thank you, ma'am. Isabella, full of desire, passion, and dare I say it, love. But when I'm Isabella, who do I admire? None but Phoebe, perfect and lovely. Who couldn't love her? Heaven knows. Round and round and round it goes. How happy I be to be here to disclose my doubts.
I accept your proposal, romantic kiss. Darling, but this will mean an end to silence and any quarrels.
It's time to Brooklyn Heights in New York City is where Usnavi and his cousin Sonny run a small shop trying to live in the hottest days of the summer.
Opening in 2008 in the Richard Rodgers Theatre, In the Heights became quickly noticed and was nominated for 13 Tony Awards, winning 4, including Best Musical.
In the Heights, the Latino hip-hop musical, puts some sweet beats in it. In the song 96,000, somebody in the barrio wins the lottery for a $96,000 prize, Usnapi, Sonny, Benny, and Vanessa sing about what they would do if they had that kind of money. Now, enjoy 96,000.
Yo, cut! The lottery number came in. We sold the winner. What's the payout? $96,000. Yeah! $96,000! Holla! $96,000! That's a lot of spray cans! $96,000! Yo, if I won the lotto tomorrow, well, I know I wouldn't bother going on no spending spree. I'll pick a business school, I'll pay the entrance fee. Then maybe if you're lucky, you'll stay friends with me. I'll be a businessman richer than Nina's daddy. Donald Trump and I I am the late '70s Black Cat. My money's making money. I'm going from po' to moto. Keep the bling. I want the brass ring like Frodo. Oh no, there goes Mr. Braggadocio. Next thing you know, you'll lie in my Fredo Pio. If you scared of the bulls, they out to rub you. Yo, I got more hoes than a phone book Antonio. Ooh, you gotta stop rapping.
You not ready. It's gonna get hot and heavy and you already know.
Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. I'm sorry, is that an ad? Shut up, go home, pull your damn pants up. How do you, Mr. Frodo of the Shire, 96 G's ain't enough to retire? I have enough that I can trash all the taxes. I'm a nonstop little jackass.
Taxes, $96,000. $96,000. $96,000. I got a wind check. $96,000.
How you feel going real slow down the hall of your life with no regrets, no breaking your neck for respect or attention. We'll go, we'll take a break, we'll live, we'll go. Make it just one party, everybody here. It's a weekend, but we can breathe. Take it easy. Yo, Mom, it's me.
Check my hips. Check 1, 2, 3. What would you do with 96 Gs? I mean, if it's just between you and me, it's probably not much tricky.
I know that 6 Gs, I'd start my life with a brand new lease.
I'd line up singing with the Malibu breeze and the brand new weave, or maybe just some bleach.
Y'all freaks. No, I'm just saying, it's only when we get into You are so cute. I was just thinking off of the top of my head.
If I win the lottery, you'll never see me again. Damn, we only joking, say no, fam. I'll be downtown, I'll get my studio, I'll get out of bio. If I win the lottery, —day off for dance we go.
We tell everyone we know, we're a good old slate and go. Every Sunday they drop me off, no tip toe, but we'll get the dough.
And once we get going, we're never gonna stop. Tip toe, but we'll get the dough. And once we get going, we're never gonna stop. 96,000, 96,000, we hit goal 96,000. —beloved classic by Roald Dahl, premiered in London of 2013 and moved to Broadway in April of 2016.
Featuring the music of Mark Shaden and Scott Whitman, this next song introduces the first family to win a golden ticket. Augustus Gloop, played by Glee Morgan, and his mother Mrs. Gloop, played by McKinley Gunther, has won the chance to go to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.
Now with some laughs and yodeling, here's the bouncy little tune of More Food to Love. Full of joy. My neck was going to kneel, but now we seem just like your friends, 'cause it turns out the dessert was set to come. So even when I put in my mouth, something weird begun to bloom. Would my liver, would my kidneys catch a big hit coming through? The blessed day arrived, and as he rose from on his feet, and the first present So mix strudel, heat the noodle ham, love like pretzel pie. Get your hot kettle cooking, put on heat, pour wine as well as pie. Sure, it's like the brother stomping heat, but I will drum it up, cause there's always more cornmeal to love. Go ahead, Gustav, don't be shy and spill your guts. Like my mother or my father, I enjoy a hazy beer.
He's my uncle. I've got my insides made of steel. Raise piggies in the backyard so I eat them liver and liver.
We won't leave our doctors all alone with him.
Shh! So this morning I was eating when such hunger did attack. 50 warm kawas were waiting for a nice mid-breakfast snack. But the taste was kind of different, like a Brussels chilies bowl. So I spit it out and saw I had That's right, go!
One-Slide Story made its first appearance to Broadway in 1957 and was nominated for 6 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Award. Since then, there have been a number of revivals and was made into a musical film in 1961, which has received 11 Academy Awards. The song Officer Krupke, Action played by Maggie Rob Bagley, Jar played by Karcher Perkins, Diesel played by Tanner Simmonds, and A-Rod, played by Gavin Curtis, rile up the other members of the Jets to mock and imitate the adults who don't understand their behaviors.
You see them cops? They believe everything they read in the papers about us cruddy JDs. So that's what we give them, something to believe in. Hey, Drew, move me up on the What are you doing? Give me one of the recent drugs right now! To the station house, you punk! Dear, dear, dear Sergeant Crunky, you've got to understand, it's just a bring-it-upbeat that gets us out of hand. Her mother's all about junkies, her father's all about drugs. Goodness gracious, Natalie, what punk she offers a Crunky's Prairie We never have the love that every child wanna get. We ain't no delayed waste or misunderstood. Deep down inside us, there is good, there is good, there is gold. There is untapped good life inside.
Don't worship us as gods.
It's just a good story. I wanna be president of the world. a square. This boy don't need a judge, he needs an analyst kit. It's just as though no system that ought to be calm, he's psychologically disturbed. I'm just good with snow. I'm with a boat, they're stuck like we saw. Come on, we can start. Maybe you figured out this word. This child is I have a break from a cut at the Pride. So take him to a head sweep. My father is a bastard. Oh, my mom said let's so be it. My grandpa's always plastered. My grandma pushes teeth. My sister wears a mustache. My brother wears a dress. Yes, Officer Croc King, you're really a chomp. This boy don't need a doctor, just a food order strong. Society's playing him a terrible trick. Good sociologically, he's sick. I accept we are sick. We are sick, sick, sick like we're so, so hard to go into. In my professional opinion, this child doesn't have its head shrunk at all. Jupiter had to live with this purely social disease. So take him to a social worker.
It's not I'm antisocial, I'm only anti-work.
Glory asking, that's why I'm a jerk. Officer Cookie, you've done it again. This boy don't need a job, just a year in the pen. It ain't just a question of misunderstood. Dude, don't suck your ego up. I love God. We're no God, we're no God. We're no earthly good. Fuck your past, I'm busting open of wildest fantasy, giving their boss the boot while their boss remains otherwise engaged.
The women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept unknown. Tonight we will see the number "Get Out and Stay Out," which is about Judy's ex-husband Dick, who shows up and asks her to take him back. She rebuffs him and states she is a changed woman who will not crawl back to someone who broke her heart. Thus, showing strength she has learned with her coworkers as she orders him to leave. So sit back and enjoy this powerful number performed by Sarah J. Hale.
MBT proudly presents "Get Out and Stay Out." Yeah, well, it's funny how you waltzed in here assuming I'd come back. Well, let me tell you one thing, you are way off track. Can't you see I'm different? Or are you still that blind? No, you stand right there and Take it. There's no love to hide behind. Well, I'm pretty proud to tell you I'm really doing good. I'm sure a whole lot better than you ever thought I would. Got my own place, my own space to think and dream and plan. Took me this long to realize I do not need I used to need you, but then I finally learned. I used to want you, but now it's your time to burn. I used to love you, but how the tables have turned. And I'm saying I'm doing fine and won't wait for your return. So get out and stay out. I finally had enough. Don't kick me on your way out. It wouldn't move me much. You used me, abused me. You cheated and lied. So get out and stay out. Take care. Bring back my life. I wonder what you'll do when I'm not around, now that your new love has up and let you down. You always kept crying to me throughout the years, to mend the love —your broken heart to dry your selfish tears. So get out and stay out. I'm moving on at last. Oh, I've been so foolish, but that was in the past. I never thought I'd be the one to say goodbye. So get out and stay out. Taking back my life. Dreams and plans are in the making.
Success is out there for the taking.
It's just as simple as it sounds. I have no choice, I have to do it. Face the future, walk into it. Now that I'm on the third and the back. Get out, I say out. Finally had enough. Don't kick me out, you'll find out. You wouldn't know me much. You used me, abused me. You cheated and lied. So get out and stay out. I'm taking back my life.
My life.
A new Broadway musical opened November 14th, 2016. In the song "You Will Be Found," Evan Hansen, played by Noah Hilker, a young high schooler who struggles with an anxiety disorder, sings about being lonely and how one friendship can change it all.
Have you ever felt like nobody was there? Have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere? Have you ever felt like you could disappear? Like you could fall and no one would hear? So let that lonely feeling wash away. Maybe there's a reason to believe you'll be okay. Because when you don't feel strong enough to stand, you can reach, reach out your hand. And oh, Someone will come running, and I know they'll take you home. Even when the dark comes crashing through, when you need a friend to carry you, and when you're broken on the ground, you will be found. So let the sun come It's dreaming 'cause you reach up and you'll rise again. Lift your head and look around. You will be found. You will be found. You will be found. You will be found.
You will be found.
If you only say a word, from across the silence, your voice is heard.
Oh, someone will arrive. Oh, someone will arrive to take you home.
To take you home.
Even when the darkness is crashing through, When you need a friend to carry you, when you're broken on the ground, you will be found. So let the sun come streaming in, 'cause you'll reach up and you'll rise again. If you only look around, you will be found. You will be found. You will be found. Out of the shadows, the morning is breaking and all is new, all is new. He's filling up the empty and suddenly I see that all is new, all is new. We're not alone. You are not alone. You are not alone. You are not alone. You are not alone. You are not alone.
You are not— you are not alone.
Even when the dark is crashing through, when you need some someone to carry you when you're broken on the ground. You will be proud. If you'll reach up and you'll rise again. If you won't give up the ground, you will be proud.
You will be proud. You will be found. You will be found. You will be found.










