DON’T RAIN ON MY PARADE [Funny Girl; 1963; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bob Merrill] Another Act 1 powerful closer, where Fanny Brice is determined to marry the problematicContinue readingDON’T RAIN ON MY PARADE

“Losing My Mind” is a song written by Stephen Sondheim originally for the 1971 musical Follies for the character of a former showgirl, Sally Durant Plummer. The song became aContinue readingLosing My Mind

“Seasons of Love” is a song from the 1996 Broadway musical Rent, written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The song starts with an ostinato piano motif, which provides the harmonicContinue readingSeasons of Love

Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised considerably by theContinue readingAnything Goes

“Someone to Watch Over Me” is a 1926 song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, assisted by Howard Dietz who penned the title. It was written forContinue readingSomeone to Watch Over Me

“On the Street Where You Live” is a song with music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner from the 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady. It isContinue readingOn the Street Where You Live

“Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” is the opening song from the musical Oklahoma!, which premiered on Broadway in 1943. It was written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar HammersteinContinue readingOh, What a Beautiful Mornin

“Whatever Lola Wants” is a popular song, sometimes rendered as “Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets”. The music and words were written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross for the 1955Continue readingWhatever Lola Wants

ANYTHING GOES [Anything Goes; 1934; music & lyrics by Cole Porter] This Cole Porter classic spotlights a decades-defining diva from a different age of musical theatre: Ethel Merman in theContinue readingANYTHING GOES

IF I WERE A RICH MAN [Fiddler on the Roof; 1964; music by Jerry Bock; lyrics by Sheldon Harnick] Written in a Jewish klezmer style, this joyous, boisterous comical pleaContinue reading IF I WERE A RICH MAN