Riverton MDT 2016 MONDAY

Stories of living, stories of living, stories of science of the land. Grace be that new in our clear views. Stories of horses, terrence golden horses, and how each one more hits a very small spear. Wary of fear, but she got half-heart. And music, you gotta have heart and music. Heart and music get along. You gotta have heart and music, you gotta have heart and music. Heart and music make the song. But if I only had the song, what I would do? Of life, your delight. Stories of illness, songs of improvement, and everyone talks about change. I have so many stories of illness, of people after me, after growing up once with these stern acid strains. Rearranged, but you gotta have heart and music. You gotta have heart and music. Heart and music get along. Heart and music. Heart and music. You gotta have heart and music. Heart and music make the song. Oh, you gotta have heart and music. You gotta have heart and music. Art and music make. Art and music make. Art and music make. Make a song. Art and music make song. Art and music make song. Art and music make song. Premiered off-Broadway in 1998 and has since been revived in the U.S. William Finn wrote the show in the sense of being an autobiography of his own struggles when fighting with the illness of a brain tumor. The musical is about songwriter Gordon Schwinn, who recently is facing a life-threatening brain disease, and his biggest fear is dying with beautiful songs still inside his head. An iconic number in the show simply States, you need art and music to survive. Hello and welcome to the 2016 MDT Musical Review. We're so excited to be performing for you tonight. We've been working really hard on these numbers since July, and we love having an audience. We'd like to thank our teacher, Mr. Clint Eaton, for all the time and effort he puts into putting these reviews together for us. We are also thrilled to introduce tonight our guest echo piece, Mr. Kelly Dupont. Widely accredited actor, musician, director, choir teacher, vocal coach, and instructor for us in Utah. We appreciate his yearly contributions to the words and drama department. Please give him another round of applause. Enjoy the rhythm of life. It's based off of the 1980 movie 9 to 5. Music and lyrics were written by Dolly Parton. The musical premiered in Los Angeles in September of 2008 and opened in Broadway in 2009. It received 15 Drama Desk Award nominations and 4 Tony Award nominations. The story involves 3 women, Judy, Violet, and Dora Lee, who share their frustrations about their political boss, Mr. Hart. They forge plans to seek revenge on him. Subsequently, their plans to dispose of their boss have some twists and turns. This results in a new plan to hold him hostage in his own home as they manage to make changes to their workplace and provide company procedures for a more woman-friendly environment. What to do and where to start. Things are falling apart. Trying hard to move on. But keep losing ground instead. Still, I have to take a chance, pushing fear and doubt aside. Had no warning in advance, nothing left to do but try. And I just might make it far. I just might make it out of the park. Just might rise above the crowd. Though I suffered quite a fall, still I have to get up again and hold on to it like a vice. I have a weapon and a tool, and I am nobody's fool. I strike my monster off and just keep on moving on. But I just might make it work, and if I make it wrong, I just might. 1776 is a musical based on the events surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It premiered on Broadway in 1969 and ran for 1,217 performances. In 1997, the show was revived for another Broadway run. In Cool, Cool Considerate Men, Dickinson, played by Blake Christensen, and his fellow conservatives are alone and sing of their desire to remain conservative and to keep their wealth. And look, the sun is in the sky, the breeze is going by, and there's not a single fly. Come sing Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna. And we're cool. Conservative men, a like of which may never be seen again. We have land, cash in hand, self-command, future plans. Fortune thrives, society survives, in India or in France, with world our prize. Come sing Hosanna, Hosanna! In all breeding and all manner, we are true. With the true, true, considerate set, we'll dance together to the same minuet. To the right, ever to the right, never to the left, forever to the right. May our creed be never to exceed To the right, ever to the right, never to the left, forever to the right. Hands attached, tight, relaxed, everybody match, to my heavenly dispatch. What we do, we do rationally, we never ever go a half-cocked nut weenie. Why begin 'til we know that we can win. And if we cannot win, why bother to begin? We say this game's not of our choosing. Why should we risk losing? We could rule the land. Mr. Hancock, you're a man of property, one of us. Why not join us in our mini-revolution? Why do you insist on dancing with Mr. Adams? Good heavens, sir, you don't even like him! That is true, he annoys me quite a lot, but still I'd rather trot with Mr. Adams through the park. But why? For fame? For glory? For a place in history? Be careful, sir. History will brand him and his followers as traitors. Traitors to what? The British crown or the British government? Fortunately, there are not enough men of property in America to dictate policy. Perhaps not, but remember that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor. And that is why they will follow us. To the right, ever to the right, never to the left, forever to the right. Where there's gold, a market that will hold. Tradition and soul, we love them to behold. Sing hosanna, hosanna, we sing and we sing hallelujah. We are cool, we're the cool, cool, cool, considerate men. The likes may never, never be seen again. We have land, cash in hand, self-command. Future plan new, and we'll hold to our goal, tradition that is old, reluctant to be bold. We say this game is not of our choosing, why should we risk losing? —about young adults at the metaphorical edge of their lives. Tony Nahony's Magic Hassick and Justin Paul, known as Hassick Paul, are on Edison 2005 during their sophomore year at University of Michigan. Their works also include A Christmas Story, Dogfight, Dear Evan Hansen, and James and the Giant Peach. Their original songs have also been featured on NBC's Smash. Although the show has never had a Broadway run, the show has had hundreds of productions across the world. And in 2007, Pasek and Paul won a $20,000 Jonathan Larson Award, becoming the youngest to have ever won the award, which was established by the state of a friend and composer Jonathan Larson to encourage composers lyricists, and book writers at the beginning of their careers. In the song "Along the Way," Logan Johnson reflects his character's mistakes he's made in the past in preparation for his future. Third grade in Miss Adams' class, an emotionally scarring time I'm still trying to forget. And it's not like I was a loser. It's not like I didn't pass. See, it has to do with what happened to poor Babe, our class pet. We had this tradition on every Friday, one of us was picked to take him home. Exciting, right? Well, I finally asked Ms. Adams, could this be my day? I thought maybe if If I'm verbal, I could go home with this durable tonight. But my dad was allergic, and my mom was worried he'd throw up. It's a real thing. I knew exactly what the situation would require. My mom showed up for carpool. I stuffed Pork King in my pocket. I forgot about him till my nanny found him in the dryer. I was sick the whole next week, too afraid to tell all my friends that poor Porky was dead. Katie Thompson told me their killers were in hell, but Miss Adams took my hand and she said, "Oh, my poor swan, things will be okay." Oh, work week is gone. Tomorrow is a brand new day. Everyone makes a couple mistakes somewhere along the way. In case you're wondering, this just wasn't the one time it burns. This is a brief list of all the reasons I kind of suck. I wrecked my mother's car, I lost my cousin in a mall, and I killed a fish and a bird. A squirrel? Displaced my father's autograph, Mickey Mantle ball, and broke my bike in two. A 9-year-old girl, but she's alright and I just keep telling myself, oh, life goes on, things will be okay. And though she broke her arm and all her teeth are gone, tomorrow is a brand new day. Everyone makes a couple mistakes somewhere along the way. Looking back, I can't pretend I won't see the trend. I'm not bendable. I'm aware I can't take care of them all. Well, I'll aware what being careless brings. See, for him and the bike crash, they're just samples, small examples, mistakes I've made and stupid things I did. That's why I'm so afraid to raise the camera. So why would you choose me to raise a kid? The Lion King opened on Broadway in 1997. In the song He Lives in You, the cast follows the story of Simba, played by Mikey Rowe, after the death of his father and the king Mufasa, played by Logan Smith. Simba runs away and his evil uncle Scar, played by Doug Adams, takes over as king. After meeting Simone, played by Monique Walker, and Nkumba, played by Breckin Lee, come. Soon he realizes that his father still lives in him. He then confronts Scar and takes back the pride. The Lightning in the Piazza opened on Broadway in 2002 with music and lyrics by Alan Gedle. This musical follows the life of a Southern woman, Margaret Johnson, and her daughter Clara. In the song Statues and Stories, Margaret, played by Maggie Carter, Margaret and Clara, played by Emma Tolman, have just arrived in Florence, Italy for summer vacation. Margaret is showing Clara one of the many stories Italy has to tell, and they are both amazed as they watch the city come to life. What happened here? Well, let's see. On a central square in the city of sun rose a palace. It was high and handsome, leaning like the crown of a king. Where would that be? Where is that? In a tower, a warning bell would ring. What kind of warning? For a fire, for a river overflowing. Oh, get in and see, in a central square, the beginning of a kingdom. A young republic with their regime, with their queens, princes, painters, noblemen of logic and art. In Anne's day, Leonardo, Michelangelo's star. That completely naked statue, 'twas a dawning day on learning. The painting of the world we know. The world we know. On a central square, many men are sketching their stories. Go on and tell me what they mean. Igniting them like a beacon coming out of the dark. You can feel us. You can talk. You can follow us. We are on vacation. From an age to an age. An age to an age. In the Financier. In the Financier. In the Financier. From all over the world. It started then and there. And here we are. In the Financier. Jekyll and Hyde opened on Broadway in 1997. Winner of several awards including the Theatre World Award. In the song "Fassade," the people of London, rich and poor, teach us that things aren't as they seem and everyone is both good and evil. There's a beast that we wear in the cold light of day. It's society's best, it's society's way. And the truth is that it's all upside down. There's a beast that we hide till the nighttime appears, hiding inside behind all of our Is our true self locked inside of the song? Every day, people in general sleep late. That's America's dark fantasy. And be what they hate. That's all it's okay to display. Living out a masquerade. Masking up is our charade. We all play in the same. And there's one thing I know, and I know it for sure. This disease that we got has got no way to cure. And I'm certain, like this parent we are, when your life's up for sale, look around you, I don't know if you can. I still am looking at the surface, but it's lurking very deep in. See that face? Now I'm prepared to bet you what you see's not what you get. This man's a master of deceit. So what if his name is Sir Secret? The lie he will tell you is true. If there is any reason on the street, it isn't one man, but two. Nearly everyone you see, like him and her and you and me, pretends to be a pillar of society, a model of propriety. Sobriety and piety! He shudders at the thought of those who The ladies and gents here before you, there's none of them ever admits he has any looks, but the sinners he crossed, he will praise. There are preachers who kill, there are killers who preach, there are teachers who lie, there are liars who teach. Take a kick, dear, 'cause it's all about the stars. If we're not number 2, are we evil or good? What's this nightmare made of rust and reverb? Are we waiting to break through the facade? 1 or 2, might I have a bell to ring? Ha! There's as bad as me and you. Lockdown forever, my judgment is Half mankind thinks the other half is blind. Wouldn't be surprised to find they're rubbing their boots. At the end of the day, they don't mean what they say, they don't say what they mean, they don't ever complete their rants. Sir, it's all up the stars. And he's got one more tune. He is evil and good. And he talks about life. We all cross it, we could. It's a nice bit of air. We could never destroy. We all stand upon the earth's side. What's behind the facade? Look behind. The Glorious Months is a musical with lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Laerche. The Glorious Months is set in 17th century Italy. The show premiered on April 27th, September 11th, 2007 at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. It later opened on Off-Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre on October 11th, 2007. The show was nominated for Drama Desk Awards in Outstanding Musical, Music, Lyrics, Orchestrations, and Costume Design. In Opposite You, Isabella and Francesco have finally been cast as romantic opposites in the play The Midwomen. Is her belly also moon? Nothing will appease her. As she hums a haunting little tune, Arlequin sees her. He desires her. She inspires him. So he steals the moon from on high. What a start. Soon we'll grow into you. And I was born for the Lord, for to play opposite you. You could teach me all you know, I would go where you —lead me. We were born to make it so. We were born to fly. I would give all my wealth and all my riches to be yours. Just to prove you're a part of soul and flesh and bone. Yours until I die. In the music of another age, I was born to hear you. Born to stand beside you on a stage, ever to be near you. We'll be silhouette, turning few heads, on the painted fence of the sky. Kindred hearts, making the world something new. Casting the simplest of oars, for into the fray of us it is. Of us it is. Of us it is. The musical Everyday Rapture is a loose autobiography of the author Sherrie Renee Scott, showing her journey from small-town Kansas to life in show business. It ran off-Broadway in 2009 and opened on Broadway in 2010. This would be considered a jukebox musical, as the music was pulled from a wide variety of pop music. Up the Ladder to the Roof, originally by the Supremes, is the final song of the show. And we shall run across the sky and illuminate the night. All the lights will shine on you. Better times and brighter days. So we break, go up the ladder to the roof where we can see heaven much better. Go up the ladder to the roof. day. Don't you know, they'll help you away. I know it's time to go up the ladder to the roof where we can see much better. Go up the ladder to the roof where we can be closer to the laugh. And I'll tell you a story about How it is, the happiness in a baby. We'll combine our thoughts and together we will travel. We'll go to the mountain of loneliness. I will never, I will never, never ever, will never ever. As we understand our love, it will grow, it will grow. Stronger and stronger, stronger and stronger, yeah! Go up the ladder to the roof, where we can see heaven much better. Go up the ladder to the roof, We can be with me. Go up the ladder to the roof where we can sing and much better. Go up the ladder to the roof where we can be free and be closer. You can be with me. Go up the ladder to the roof Bring It On is about competition. The cheerleaders of the Toro Cheerleading Squad are in quite the jam when a former captain steals their routine and gives it to the Clovers. In this envious turn of events, the squad has to redeem themselves to beat them for the win. This song, Killer Instinct, is the point in the show when the audience realizes how Eva came to be captain. Dear God up in heaven, a prayer for Campbell. Once she was my hero, now she's a disgrace. I'm here on top and she's less than zero, dragging me down to save face. She always worked hard. She was trusting and fair. And Lord, that's the crux of her problems right there. You need a killer instinct to give you the nerve to grab everything you want in life, but may not be there. Like if some girl's in your way, there's only one thing to do. To do. You blackmail your mother who sits on the school board to get Hamilton transfer ripped from the life that he knew. And your dreams come true. Your dreams come true. And your dreams come true. Your dreams come true. And your dreams come true. Your dreams come true. And your dreams come true. Ow, ow, it tastes like killer ants. Tastes like killer ants. I am the little ant or You set the ants on fire, and if there's two girls in line to lead the team before you, then you hack the school system and change Skylar's grade from a D to an F, and then hire some sick guy to lick Skylar's toothbrush so she contracts mono. Now no one is left to be captain, so they turn to you, and your dreams come true. Dreams come true, they do, yeah. Oh, what have I become? Who's that girl in the mirror I see? Who is she? Is she some backstabbing wax doll I run screaming from? Oh my! I just left me! Wouldn't all of you kill to be me? Who made that killer instinct? Since time first began, from Genghis Khan to Bristol Palin, you need a killer plan, you need to reach the top, if it's the last thing you do. I'm a girl to beat, I'm your high school queen, seniors kiss my ass and adjust their queens to the world of Albert Mayne. I'm raising hell and I'm a felon in a 4-foot frame. I just used my killer instinct and my dream came true. I use my pillow and speak to the world. It's going. Lucky Stiff is a musical comedy that starts out with Harry, a shoe salesman, being told that his Uncle Tony has died, leaving Harry $6 million if he takes the embalmed body on an all-expense-paid trip to Monte Carlo. Harry leaves very specific instructions about the trip, and if Harry fails to follow all his instructions, the money will go to his Uncle Anthony's favorite charity, the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn, run by a woman named Annabelle. Chaos ensues, and after everything finally settles down, Harry and Annabelle realize that they both failed to follow Uncle Tony's instructions and consequently will not receive the $6 million. As they fight the feeling of falling in love, Olivia and Donald present nice. As long as it's goodbye, and knowing this is it, I have a little something to admit. It was nice fighting you, nice hating you, nice knowing I was aggravating you. Amazing. Raising the roof. It was nice. It were impossible, unbearable. My nerves were almost unrepairable. But now that it's through, it was nice. From now on, I'll have no one to ruin my day. Of who? Of you. Without you in my way. And no sleepless nights, no heart attacks, no need to Do you bring along your battle axe? No way I will do this twice. But once. Just once. There will not exist some villain who'll have no one to ruin my day. I mean, you want me on you, without you, in my way. So nice knowing you, nice meeting you, nice knowing I'll be lonely hating you. And won't I be there as I So sane and calm and plain and much too nice. The Bridges of Madison County opened on Broadway in 2014 and is currently on national tour featuring soulful music by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown. This production, based on a best-selling novel by Robert James Waller, tells the story of of a housewife from Iowa named Francesca Johnson and her encounter with a traveling photographer, Robert Kincaid. Francesca is stuck in a loveless marriage with two kids, but when she helps Robert find a specific bridge he wishes to photograph, she begins to see the possibility of a new future. Torn between decision and desire, this chance encounter can be a second chance at so much more. In the song "It All Fades Away," Robert sung by Mr. Kelly DeHaan, is singing about the extraordinary sights he's seen as a photographer and how they all fade away when he thinks of Francesca. There was something in a desert. It was someplace wild and green. And a child in a village I I pass through. There are places that I've traveled and so many things I've seen, and it all fades away, but you I was sliding down a mountain. I was burning in the sun. I was crying with amazement at the view. I was capturing a moment. But when all is said and done, well, it all fades away. You. It all fades away, it all fades away, it all fades away for you. I have sailed across the oceans, past the cities and the farms, on a never-ending quest for something new. And the only things that matter are the 4 days in your arms, 'cause it all fades away. But you, it all fades away, it all fades away, it all fades away. Ah, there is one thing that's eternal, cannot be torn apart. There is one thing that remains were ever true. Past the thinking, past the breathing, past the beating of my heart, it will all fade away but you. It all fades away, it all fades away, it It all fades away, but you. It all fades away, it all fades away, it all fades away, but you. Sweet Charity is a high-energy musical full of wacky charms, irony, and complex relationships involving a girl named Charity who likes to dance. In the number "The Rhythm of Life," choreographed by Hadson Welch, the story moves itself to a hippie church under the Manhattan Bridge where the hippie pastor of the church, played by Grayson Berry, sings with his hippie congregation about how he started hippie church and how you need to feel the rhythm of life everywhere you go. Get ready to feel the rhythm in this multi-colored number, starting from the tingles in your fingers down to the tingles in your feet. In San Francisco, to another trumpet loud and mean. Suddenly a voice said, "Go forth, Daddy, spread the picture on a wider screen." The voice said, "Daddy, there's a million pigeons waiting to get hooked on new religions. Hit the road, Daddy, leave your common-law wife. Spread the religion of the rhythm of life." And the rhythm of life is a powerful beat, with a tingle in your fingers and a tingling feet. Rhythm in the bedroom, rhythm in the street. Yes, the rhythm of life is a powerful beat. To feel the rhythm of life, to feel that powerful beat. To feel the tingle in your fingers, to feel the tingle in your feet. The rhythm of life is a powerful beat. The rhythm of life. Feel the beat. I'll tell you every dream I know. Daddy was the new sensation, got himself a congregation, got a quite an operation down below. With the pine-eye factor glowing, a musket sail was flowing, our Texaco goin' down below. Flip your wings. Fly to Daddy. Flip your wings. Fly to Daddy. Oh, flip your wings. Fly to Daddy. Fly, fly, fly. Take a dive and swim to Daddy. Take a dive and swim to Daddy. Take a dive, swim, swim, swim. Haste and crawl, haste and crawl, haste and crawl. Cock-a-doodle-doo! To feel the rhythm of life, to feel that powerful beat, to feel the tingle in your fingers. Based on the 1989 Disney movie by the same name, The Little Mermaid opened on Broadway in January of 2008 and ran through August of 2009. Replacing Disney's Beauty and the Beast. It has 685 performances on Broadway and also introduces Sierra Boggess as the title role of Ariel. With, by some additions and changes from the classic Disney movie, the musical is set to add further depth and backstory to the already lovable characters. In the song One Step Closer, Ariel, played by Rob Bagley, has recently lost her voice and gained her legs. After arriving on the shore, Prince Eric Eric, played by Brevin Lipstone, rescues her and brings her back to the castle for some dinner and rest. Due to her lack of ability to communicate verbally, Eric decides to teach her how to communicate through dance. Choreographed by Bailey DeYoung, here is One Step Closer. Who needs words? Dancing beats all anything. It's the way your feet smile or laugh. It lets you say so many things. Dancing is a language that is felt instead of heard. You can whisper, sing, or shout without so much as a word. Try it. Go on. Like so. Just let your emotions tell your body what to do. See how much a single gesture can reveal. And every little step, every single step is one step closer. To sing what you feel. Once the music hits you and emotions fall away and you find that you're expressing things your voice dare not say, don't be afraid, let go. As soon as you surrender, what's inside will sweep on through as the boundaries between —disappear. And every little step, every single step, is one step closer to talking loud and clear. A dance is like a conversation, except you never need to make a sound. And one Once you've begun, you'll speak as one, give and take, back and forth, round and round. conversation, except your lips don't ever need to part. And once you've begun, you'll speak as one, cheek to cheek, toe to toe, heart to heart. Dancing is a language felt and ever. It says much more than language ever could. And every little step, every single step is one step closer, one step closer, one step closer to being understood. Based on the 1992 film of the same name, Sister Act tells the story of aspiring disco diva Dolores Van Cartier. Sister Act opened in at the Morgan in 2009 and then moved to Broadway in 2011 and then toured and went to several different countries all around the world. In this number, Dolores, played by Whitney Gilman, has made the transition from the disco life to the gospel choir life and prepares the nuns for their show by singing "Bless Our Show." We now present the women of MDT. Bless our show, bless our music, bless the songs we're gonna sing. Bless the stage that we'll stand on when we stand and do our thing. Bless each line, every number, all the steps that we rehearsed. And allow us, somehow, to be great at first. Bless each note and each lyric Help us to rise, stay on key. Bless the lights and the soundboard. Bless our choreography from the top of the downbeat till the final curtain call. Bless the day, bless our show, bless it all. Well, that's our prayer, everybody. Good night and God bless. No, no, no, no, no, no, wait there, kids, wait. There's still so much more to pray. Well, what did I leave out? Bless the town boards within the city. Bless our props. Bless our costumes. Bless our script. Bless our moves. Let us nail the butt-keeping. Bless our lines. Make us better. Help our booties shake on cue. Let us rest when we're stressed so our best shines through. Bless our riffs and arrangements. Let our solos truly rock. Let us tear up the sucker till they hear us down the block. Let us lay down the boogie till it spells equal to hope. Bless our pipes, bless our amps, bless it all. Let our voices leap and glisten. Grant us strength to sing our best. And let all the folks who listen feel made to our truly blessed. Bless our love and our friendship, make it somehow real. Most of all, keep us smiling while we're strutting our muster. Let us live on in all eternity. "A Little Night Music" was first shown on Broadway in 1973 and has become especially well known for its music, written and composed by Stephen Sondheim. In the song "It Would Have Been Wonderful," the successful lawyer Frederick Edgerman, played by Gavin Curtis, and military dragoon Count Carl Magnus Malcolm, played by Vernon Whitestone, discuss with each other the pain of having fallen for the same pick of women. Desiree Arpelt, and how happy they would each be if she were anything less than amazing. I should never have gone to theater, then I'd never have gone to the country. If I'd never had gone to the country, Matters might have stayed as they were. Sir? Sir? If she'd only been faded. If she'd only been fat. If she'd only been jaded and bursting with chat. If she'd only been perfectly awful, it would have been wonderful. If, if, if she'd been on Twitter or elusively cold, if she'd only been bitter or better looked passively old, if she'd been covered in glitter or even covered in mold, it would have been wonderful. But the woman was perfection, To my deepest dismay, well, not quite perfection, I'm sorry to say. If the woman were perfection, she would go away, and that would be wonderful, sir, sir. If she'd only been lustered or admitted the worst. If she'd only had lustered or silvered or cursed. If she weren't so awfully perfect, it would have been done. Oh, if, if, if she tried to be clever, if she started to bitch, if she cried or whatever, a woman woman would do in a pinch. If I'd been certain she never again could be trusted an inch, it would have been wonderful. But the woman was perfection, not in action. Deny that kind of perfection, I cannot abide. If the woman were perfection, she had simply lied. If she don't even lish his forehead, actin' ugly, or a bit too vicious, or even be slightly confused, if she had only been salty, or bristly, or bulky, or loose, it would have been wonderful. If, if, if she'd only been careful, if she only had meant oral intimacy or full, if something consistent in bed, if she'd only been tearful or merry, or been —Or dead! It would have been wonderful, but the woman was perfection, and the prospects are grim. That lovely perfection that nothing can dim. Yes, the woman was perfection, so I'm here with him. Sir? Sir? It would have been wonderful. Next to Normal opened on Broadway in April 2009 and closed in 2011. This rock musical musical about a mother whose bipolar disorder affects her family won 3 Tonys and the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama. In the song "Why Stay? A Promise," Diana, played by Gentry Jepson, and Natalie, played by Caitlin Shriner, ask their husband and boyfriend why stay with them even after all the trouble they put them through. Dan, played by Logan Smith, and Henry, played by Michael Rowe, respond with a promise to stay no matter what happens. Why stay? Why stay? So steadfast and stolid and stoic and solid for day after every day. Why stay? Why stay? Why not simply give it and get on with living? Because everyone knows —to try, 'cause I must stop and die on the way. So tell me why, say why, say why, say enduring and coping and hurting and hoping for day after every day. Why say, why say, why thus is the ending they all comprehend? And most of the world would say it's better all that way to be free. And maybe so will she. A promise, a boy says forever. A boy says whatever may come will come through. Who can know how, when all I know now to be true is this promise that I make to you. Question, a boy wonders whether. A boy wonders whether. The two stay together. I hope and pray that they stay. Year after year, I'll roam your island way. That's the promise that I made that day. Here's what I say to the girl who was burning so brightly, like the light from Orion above. And still I will search for her nightly. If you see her, please send her my love. And the boy who looked good for all seasons, boy, that boy is long lost to me now. Oh, the man has forgotten his reasons, but the man still remembers his vow. A promise a man says forever, a man says I'll never regret, will that you? Promise that I may I just stayed and I stayed true. Knowing one day we'd remember that joy. We remember that girl, I remember that boy. To be true, the promise I made, I make it brand new. The promise that I make to you. Peter Pan made its Broadway debut in 1954. The musical is about an age-defying boy, a mischievous fairy companion Tinker Bell, and the Darling children on their adventures in the mysterious Neverland. In the song "Vengeance," the notorious Captain Hook is describing the good that will God from killing as many as his feet can count. What do you say we hash this over with the crew? Summon the men! As you say, Captain. All hands on deck! Ah, Coco, Cookson, Stocky, Peddlet, Brebin, juice noodler, my old crew. Captain, you should ask us something of great importance, lads. Captain, hash on! Well, boys, Mr. Smee here thinks I should pack my bags, sail away, and leave my old friend Peter Pan. So I ask you, would I? Should I? Way in the north sea? I could sail and leave him all alone. Could I? You mean retire, sir? Retire? I could sail away to Far Cat Bay and lead a life of ease. Turn my back on all I've known and learnt. But the thought of Peter flying freedom would bring me to my knees. No matter where I roam, so what's the purpose? Don't I want to be a hero? Yes. Don't I want to be a daddy? Don't I want to get me vengeance? Yes. To clear a Peter from my brain. Don't I want to be an idol? Oh, you want children shrieking when They see me, sweet attention from the ladies, all for causing me to pain. Lick to your ears, Lena, once I get me poking heater, life will go from sweet to sweeter, I say. Lick, lick, boogie, bop, boop, yes! If you want to stay dry, let's— It's the children of the Stranglewolf. Poof! Anything your heart desires. Could I get a big umbrella? Sure! Let's play the piano. Why not? Live a piece of Gorgonzola. A nice piece of— Anything my heart desires. Name it. Well, I'd like to buy a baby chimp and then leave him on Chapin. What a chimp! I'd like to I'd like to start a little pirate school for the kids. I'd like to clear my every thought of that Peter from my brain. More than his death, I want a death that's cruel. Gather round! Oh lads, can't you see it? Peter! Dead! Me, happy at last! My own pirate school! I'll teach the three E's: roguery, larceny, arsony! A hook for every boy, and a boy on every hook! A hook for every boy, and a boy on every hook! Are you going into vengeance? Yes! Aren't you going to vengeance? Yes! You are, Captain O'Keefe! Oh yes! That's my boy! But I think it's time to leave it to Rob here, the senior, to learn a new master of pizza. There's just sweet but nothing sweeter than vengeance! Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown opened on Broadway in 2010 and closed in 2011 after just 69 performances. It was nominated for 3 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Featured Actress for Laura Benanti and Patti LuPone. In the song Model Behavior, Candela, played by Olivia Cuthbert, is frantically trying to get a hold of her friend Pepa and get relationship advice about her boyfriend Malik, but Pepa won't answer the phone. Peppa, it's me, Candela. Call me when you hear this, okay? Okay. Peppa, Peppa, it's me again. Why aren't you picking up the phone? It's like my brain is going on mental fire. I'm talking to you. I got a problem in the shower and I've only got a minute. Problem in the shower. I do need to be running. Here's what's the word. Sorry, I'm like desperate. Cheek. And he's been here in my apartment for about a week. I met him down at a cafe somewhere. And I know you think I'm overly romantic, but you wouldn't believe the connection. And I was like, immediately I was ready for him to meet my mom. Like, I could feel my heart is falling. I'm kind of bummed, which is ironic because actually I think he literally has some kind of— my grandma, they say I look like grandma. I don't do that with him. I maybe don't make too good conclusions, but I hope I am. He's a bit— he's got shoulders like from my mother. Listen, call me when you hear this. I'll be here for about an hour. Call me back. Peppa, are you there? Are you there? Are you okay? You're not there? I feel weak as fuck. My stomach's aching like I swallowed some enormous rock. I'm at the phone booth on the corner and I've only got a minute call. I'm running out of change 'cause I've been lending all my money to Sally. I don't know what I'm gonna do if you're my night of speak, but this one really isn't bad, I think I'm gonna freak. I'm gonna say I'm just alarmed, of course I'm not. Remember that one time I thought I saw a spider, you said nah, it's a raisin, but it suddenly started moving and it crawled over and bit me on the toe. So if you're gonna stand and dump it, I want you to know it's a good thing I didn't eat it, 'cause I never would have ate it. Because I never get my raisins, so why would there be a raisin on the floor? So when you hear the phone ring back out, it's a little more. I'll be as soon as I break down this mess of a number. And this bill— over it? Oh, I have to go. I'll call you back. Peppa, okay, I'm trying to get in after noon. It's like my eyes are gonna pop if I don't get you soon. I'm at the studio, it sucks because I'm having trouble working because the only thing I think about is this crazy situation with Molly. I don't know what I'm gonna do if you let Molly speak. I know you say I'm the one that's wrong with me, but actually I tried to go and tell him about the model. Of course I feel things deeper than most people do. To do. And then he went and ended my life, maybe in danger too. He won't believe what he's located in the old Fernando's working here. He's lost a lot of weight and he got that finger removed. He just lost paper, markers, he's dead silent. And now he's telling me we're shooting though. I got to go. It's a big deal ad campaign. I don't know what it's for. He's been holding me with a mallet and a matador. Some kind of metaphor. He's calling back. Peppa, it's 8. I don't know why you're treating me like this. Peppa, it's almost 10 o'clock. You really ought to tell a friend. Peppa, I'm sorry. I never built a Friesland Den alone. I'd like to frighten you, little chicken, but hey, I'm on my stinky foot! He's coming back. Pepper, it's me. I'm on the screen. It's 3 AM. You have to call me. I would never do this to you. What kind of a friend? What's the name of that cheese that I like? Okay, but listen, I have to try to— Cheese is full. End of messages. No! Peppa, okay, now even your machines are nodding me. Listen, Peppa, I know you think I'm needy, but you gotta leave. And be kind of woozy, I've been crying for an hour. And my boyfriend hasn't told me any time he's gonna shower. And I don't know where you are, I don't know where I am. I'm halfway up a tree and I'm really in doubt. I'm out here in the desert and nobody gives a damn. Pickle? Pickle? Pickle! Call me back! Finding Neverland. Finding Neverland musical made its world premiere in 2014 at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Following completion of its Cambridge run, the production transferred to Broadway in March 2015. Finding Neverland follows the story of author J.M. Barrie and his relationship with the family of widow Sylvia Llewellyn Davies, who eventually became Barrie's inspiration to write Peter Pan. Featuring the musical concept with music and composition from Gary Barlow and Elliot Kennedy. The musical explores the power of imagination to open up new worlds and the pressures put on those worlds by the inevitability of growing up. In the number "Plays," it shows the irony of growing up and forgetting the fun adults had when they were kids. When you were young, when all the simple things you did were so much fun. You got lost somewhere along the way. You've forgotten how to play every single day. Am I right? I remember back when I was just a boy, I got a gun and holster for a Christmas toy. Pretending to be a cowboy was the very best, 'cause I was always the fastest gun in all the West. Play, play, remember I get that yesterday. I was young and having fun, laying all my cares away. Play, play, remembering you will see. The world is so mysterious and wide, but when you start to see it, you realize. Mr. Roman, surely you must have a child with memory. There's a memory that I could share of sliding down the banister of our old stairs. Only for a moment, I was in midair, and for that moment I really thought that I could fly. The moment that my father told me I was so faithful, I wanted to beat my might off the keeps around the table. A saucepan on my head and a spoon for a sword, I ventured up the veil, returning with the holy grail. I used to dream I was a bard, Edwina. And I was a gladiator, Ellard, Edwina. I used to dream Prince Charming would one day be mine. You've had an imagination all this time. Based off the 1957 film, The Sweet Smell of Success opened on Broadway in March of 2002 and ended its run in June of 2002 with 109 performances. J.J. Hunziker is a famous and powerful New York gossip columnist and takes a young press agent, Sidney Falco, under his wing, only to use him to spy on his independent younger half-sister Susan. Susan has fallen in love with a young saxophone and jazz musician named Dallas. JJ refuses to let Susan love someone like Dallas, and Susan is nervous and afraid to tell JJ of their romance in the fear of being caught out and humiliated. In the song "Don't Know Where You'll Be Off," Dallas, played by Grayson O'Berry, tries to convince Susan, played by Bailey Lawson to run away from New York against her brother's wishes and come to Philadelphia to be together. Let me be found in her eyes, Susan. Let me keep coming back to where I've just been. Don't know where you leave off and I begin. When will you come to me easy? Come to me free of all ties. Susan, pull away from the past. Let the future in. That's how I want you. You make a blur of my senses. Make the heat in me rise, Susan, till I'm high off the scent of your soft, mean skin. No more slamming those brakes, no more pulling back. Do whatever it takes, Susan. Don't know where you leave off and I begin. And I promise, buddy, I can figure a way for you to do it while you're gone. You need me to help? But you can't. Just let me work out what I'm gonna do. All right, good. I'll be yours. Yes. In a way this world I won't tell you. Oh, my Susan, I've got to have you. Make a gambler of my senses. Make the heat in me rise. Pull away from the past. Let the future in. Sweep me up, lift me high, and let me drop. Show my heart it can fly and will never stop. No more slamming those brakes, no more pulling back. Do whatever it takes. I'm your Susan. Oh, oh, oh, means I found you. I don't know why. I've been whirling around and around till I don't know where I leave off. And we be here. Newsies the Musical is based on the 1992 Disney musical film Newsies, which was inspired by the real about the Black Newspaper Strike of 1899 in New York City. The show has music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Jack Feldman. The musical opened at the Paper Mill Playhouse in 2011 and was then seen on Broadway in 2012. Newsies closed off Broadway on August 24th, 2014, with a running of 1,004 shows. In the song Once and for All, Jack, played by Logan Smith, Davey, played by Gavin Curtis, and Katherine, played by Caitlin Schreider, are encouraged encouraging the newsies to start selling their own papers and to revolt against Pulitzer. You makes the front page, and then you is major news. Tomorrow they'll see what we are, and sure as a star, we ain't come this far to lose. This is the story we needed to write as we kept out of sight, but no more. In a few hours, by dawn's early light, we'll be ready to fight for war. This memory is to stay. Talk about seizing the day. Writing in ink or in blood, it's the same either way. They're gonna damn well see. Seal them cold as the snow in his bed. They don't care if we're dead or alive. 3 sandpills are under his head while he's begging for bread to survive. Show you can stop counting sheep when Tennessee gets weak. You better talk with the states in this last gag. We have promised to keep once and for all, if they don't hold the land, this little plebeian. Plebeian. Once and for all, we will tear it open. in the shops while their bosses and cops look away. I see kids standing tall, glaring and raring to brawl. Tommy's and guys who are sick of the lies getting ready to rise to the call. Wasn't there all the blood on the wall that they doubt us? Taking their ride in this town, but this town will shut down without us. —10 other kids in the square, other kids in the square, other fists in the air, other fists, showing he's gonna play fair once and for all. Hey, Earth! Once and for all, once and for all, once and for all, once and for all. For simple once and for all. There's change coming once and for all. You're getting too old to wait to behold it all. A new world is coming for you, and so be it too. to once and for all. You're gone now. They're going to die. Once and for all. Once and for all. Band Geeks is a musical comedy tribute to high school marching bands and misfits everywhere. In the show, band students are suffering from dwindling funds and are close to extinction. When a troubled athlete is forced to join, tuba-playing band captain Elliot and his best friend Laura must must find a way to unite the band and embrace their inner geek to save them. In the song "Lost in the Brass," Lara, played by Heather Baker, confessed her love for Elliot and her deep desire to overcome her insecurities and finally be noticed. There it goes again, the moment's gone and I'm too late to speak. Another wasted opportunity. Always waiting for something to happen, but nothing's gonna happen, not for me. Buddy? I'm always buddy. I'm a girl, for your information. Forever in this situation, waiting and hoping. He'll notice how I'm feeling, but every time I get him near, I fade away, I disappear. That's me, never giving him away. He smiles and walks away, but he never says a word. Oh, oh, can anybody hear me? My glowing air, while the whole world marches past, still I glow and glow, but my nose It gets me nowhere. I just get lost in the brass. Flutes don't sparkle quite like batons. There's no visual attraction, no stimulus reaction. Pretty music, that's all the pretty that I've got. I'm special in a quiet way. At least that's what my parents say. Whatever. They've got my whole life planned. It's safe in every way. No, they don't understand. Whoa! Can anybody hear me? I just know, I know, I can sparkle on the grass. Though my melody can never be heard clearly. I just get lost, lost, lost in the grass. I've been so long lost in the grass. Listen, I'm not that brown boy. Listen, I make music. See me, I'm not one of the boys. I shine, I shine, I shine. On my own. So I don't wear makeup, I don't stick my hair up with an awesome tactic pink dress. No, I'll never be a majorette. I'm plain, I'm basic, and I sweat when I get nervous. I suck at popularity, people just don't notice me today. I School's gone to empty, and I'll finally find a place where this woodwind doesn't blend. Whoa, there's a whole world to be consumed. If I could just get out and leave this all here in the past, they'll remember me thinking, gosh, how is she doing? But I'll be long gone. Whoa, I'll be so loud now, cutting down every Right through the tube of glass, soaring high above that complicated applause. I will be lost, lost. And suddenly they'll see there's so much more to me at last. I will be lost, lost in the breath, lost in the breath. Based on the popular novel and Steven Spielberg film by the same name, the show The Color Purple was a huge hit on Broadway in 2005. The show is currently playing on Broadway in a 2015 revival with Jennifer Hudson. In the song The Color Purple, The Color Purple, Celie, played by Bailey Lawson, rejoices at the reunion of her younger sister Nettie. She sings to God, thanking him for her sister's safe return, and though Celie is old, she believes this is the youngest she has ever felt. We now present Bailey Lawson and the entire MDT class with The Color Purple. Dear love, dear stars, dear trees, dear sky, dear people. Dear everything, dear God. God is inside me, and everyone else that knows or is will be. I came to talk with God, and when I finally looked inside, I found it. God is the flowers and everything you see. That was or ever will be. And when you feel true, so breathe. When you love the way you feel, you found it. Just as sure Rising like the sun is the hope that sets us free. Your peace made my heart Now my eyes are open. Look, my God has come. Take a grain of love to make a mighty tree. Even the smallest voice can make a harmony. Like a drop of water, keep the river high. There are miracles for you and God. Where they come round. Now my eyes are open. The good God has done. I don't think us be old at all. I think this is The youngest has her best.