100 Years of BroadwayArr. By Mac HuffSopranoI. OpeningSpeaker - Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to 100 years of Broadway!Give My Regards to Broad-way! Give my regards to Broadway, Broadway. Give My Regards to Broadway, remember me to Herald Square: Tell all the gang at Forty Second Street that I will Soon be there.Whisper of how Im yearning to mingle with the old time throng.Give My Regards to old Broadway and say that Ill be there, ere long.Solo 1- Lets start at the very beginning a very good place to start.Speaker 1 - It was 100 years ago when the American Theatre opened for business on 42nd street in the heart of Manhattan. It was to be one of the first of many theatres in that famous street that became know around the world as Broadway.Speaker 2- Tonight, we celebrate the history of Broadway and our great heritage of musical theatera century of drama, laughter and beautiful music.So mi fa, la fi sore so si mi ti do si do re me fa so fa mi soSpeaker 3- Broadway is movement, staging, and show-stopping danceSolo 2- Give me somebody to dance for give me somebody to show. Let me wake up in the morning to find I have somewhere exciting to go!!Speaker 4 - Broadway is a celebration of life. Its attraction is worldwide but its style is uniquely American. Broadway is..(Sing) Something appealing,Both Soloists - something for everyone, a (end of solos) Comedy tonight!New complications, nothing portentous or polite. Open up the curtain comedy, comedy tonight, tonight. Theres no busness like show busness like no busness I know. Evrything about it is appealing. Evrything the traffic will allow. No where could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra bow. Theres no people like show people they smile when they are low. Even with the turkey that you know will fold you may be stranded out in the cold. Still you wouldnt change it for a sack of gold Lets go on with the show.Lets go on with the show to old Broad-way!II. The Early Years- The Music of Tin Pan AlleySpeaker 2 (Female) - With the likes of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and George M. Cohan, these musical wizards dominated 42nd Street and gave the world some of its most treasured Broadway melodies. (Sing) Lets go on with the show.Well have Manhattan the Bronx and Staten Island too. Its lovely going through the zoo. Its very fancy on old Delancy Street you know, the subway charms us so when balmy breezes blow to and fro. And tell me what street compares with Mott Street in July, sweet push carts gently gliding by. The Great big cities a wondrous toy just made for a girl and boy. Well turn Manhattan into an isle of joy.Button up your overcoat when the wind is free. You belong with me. Eat an apple evry day; get to bed by three. You belong to me. Solo 1- If youre ever in a jam, here I am.Solo 2 - If Youre ever in a mess S.O.SBoth Soloists - If You Ever Feel so happy you land in jail Im your BailIts friendship, friendship, just a perfect blendship. When other friendships have been forgot our will still be hot. Lahdle ahdla ahdle hep hep hepOoh. Rock-a - bye your baby with a Dixie melody. When you croon, croon a tune, from the heart of Dixie. Just swing that cradle mama mine right on that Mason - Dixon Line, and swing it from Virginia to Tennessee with all the love thats in ya. Weep no more my lady sing that song again for me, sing soft and low just as though you had me on your knee a million baby kisses Ill deliver that minute when you sing that Swanee River, Rock - a - bye your rock - a -bye baby with a Dixie Melody. Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly I gotta love one man till I die cant help lovin dat man of mine. When he goes away, thats a rainy day, but when he comes back the day is fine the sun will shine, he can come home as late as can be home without him is no home to me cant help lovin that man of mine Sing hallelujah, hallelujah and youll shoo the blues away. When cares pursue ya hallelujah gets you through the darkest days Satan lies a wait in and creatin skies of gray. But Hallelujah, Hallelujah helps to shoo the clouds away.A real life nephew of my Uncle Sam born on the 4th of July.Solo - Hes my Yankee Doodle joyYankee Doodle went to London riding on a pony. Hes got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart (Spoken) OH! Boy! Yankee Doodle went to London riding on a pony. He is that Yankee Doodle, that Yankee Doodle Boy!III. Setting the Standards - Rodgers and Hammerstein And Their ContemporariesSpeaker 1 - It was 1943 when the opening of a new Broadway show featured a cowboy ambling onto the stage singing about a beautiful morning. It was the beginning of the show that changed Broadway forevera show were the plot and drama where developed in the music and dance as well as the spoken word. It was different, It was new, It was Oklahoma, penned by the up and coming songwriting team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Ive got a beautiful feeling evry things coming my waySpeaker 2 - Oklahoma! was a landmark musical and Broadway was never the same. The late 40s saw scores of innovative show set new standards for the Broadway stage. Im Superior anything you can do I can do better I can do anything better than you. Yes I can, yes I can, yes I can yes I can. I can get a sparrow with a bow and arrow. Can you bake a pie? Neither can I. Any note you can hold I can hold Longer. I can hold any note longer than you. No you cant no you cant Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair, Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair and send him on his wayDont try to patch it up wash him out, dry him out, cancel him and let him go! Yeah sister. Im gonna wash that man right out of my hair and send him on his way.Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things.Solo 3 - How are things in Glocca Morra? Is that little brook still leaping there? Does that laddie with the twinkling eye come whistling by and does he walk away, sad and dreamy there not to see me there.So I ask each weepin willow and each brook along the way and each lad that comes a whistling to ra lay How are things in Glocca Morra, this fine day?If I loved you time and again I would try to say all Id want you to know. If I loved you words wouldnt come in an easy way round in circles Id go. Id go. Longing to tell you but afraid and shy, I let my golden chances pass me by. Soon youll leave me. Off you will go in the mist of day. Never, Never to know, to know. How I loved you If I loved you. If I loved you.IV. The Golden Years - The Music of Traditional BroadwayWillkommen beinvenue welcome To Cabaret What is it that were living for? What is it that were living for? Applause, applause, applause! Things look swell things look great gonna have the world on a plate. Starting here, starting now honey everythings coming up roses. Nows our inning stand the world on its ear! Set it spinning, thatll be just the beginning, the beginning. Away out here they got a name for wind, and rain, and fire. The rain is Tess the fire is Joe and they call the wind Maria. Maria, Maria. They call the wind Maria. Maria, Maria. Blow my Love to Me.Solo 2 - Im FlyingSolo 3 - (spoken) flyingSolo 2 - Look at me way up high suddenly here am I, Im flying! Im FlyingSolo 3 - (spoken) flyingSolo 2 - Heading far out of sight, second star to the right now the way is clear, Neverland is here, follow all the arrows Im about to disappear Im Flying. Luck be a lady tonight. Luck be a Lady tonight. Luck if youve ever been a lady to begin with, Luck be a lady tonight. Lets keep the party polite, never get out of my sight, Luck be a ladyGray skies are gonna clear up put on a happy face. Brush off the clouds and cheer up, put on a happy face. And Spread sunshine all over the place. Just put on a happy face.Hello Dolly! Well hello dolly. Its so nice to have you back where you belong. Youre lookin swell Dolly, we can tell Dolly, your still glowin youre still crowin youre still goin strong. Mame Solo 7 - You charm the husks right off of the corn Mame.You make the old magnolia tree blossom at the mention of your name. Youve made us feel alive again; youve given us the drive again, to make the South revive again Mame. Solo 8 - Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh so mellow. Try to remember and if you remember, then follow. Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow. To dream the impossible dream. Ah oo. Where is love? Does it fall from skies above? Is it underneath the willow tree that Ive been dreaming of? Where, where is love? And oh, the towering feeling just to know somehow you were near. The overpowering feeling that any second you may suddenly appear.If ever I would leave you how could it be in springtime. Knowing how in spring bewitched by you so? Oh no not in springtime, Summer, winter, or Fall. No never would I leave you at all! Before the Parade passes by, Im gonna go and taste Saturdays high life. Before the parade passes by, Im gonna get some life back into my life. Im ready to move out in front, Ive had enough of just passing by life. With the rest of them, with the best of them, I can hold my head up high for Ive got a goal again Ive got to feel my heart coming alive again, before the parade passes by.(2nd time only) ba ba ba ba bop ba da da dat. Ba ba ba ba ba, Dat da da da da. Ba ba ba ba ba, dat bop ba da da da. Oompahed up and down the square. Consider yourself at home. Consider yourself one of the family. Weve taken to you so strong, its clear were going to get along. Consider yourself our mate. We dont want to have no fuss. For after some consideration we can sate: Consider yourself one of us.V. Breaking New GroundSpeaker 1 - Early in the 1970s two talented composers indelibly changed Broadway forever. Even though they came from different parts of the world, and wrote with totally different styles, each in his own way broke mew ground in the history of musical theater. Where would Broadway be without the music of Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber? Bobby come on over for dinner well be so glad to see you. Bobby come on over for dinner, just be the three of us, only the three of us. Phone rings, door chimes in comes company. Late nights, quick bites, party games, deep talks, long walks, telephone calls. Thoughts shared, souls bared, private names, all those photos up on the walls, with love, with love filling the days, with love seventy ways. And thats what its all about isnt it? Thats what its really about, Ive got company. Lots of company. Years of company, love is company, life is company!Dont Get me wrong. Dont get me wrong now. Dont get me wrong. Dont you get me wrong now. Only wanna know. I only wanna know now. I only wanna know. I only wanna know now. I only wanna (Repeat) Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, who are you? What have you sacrificed? Choir 1 - (Repeat) Jesus Christ, Superstar, do you think youre what they say you are?Choir 2 - Dont you get me wrong. Dont you get me wrong. Dont you get me, dont you get me, now dont you get me wrong.Only wanna know. Only wanna know. Only wanna, only wanna, I only wanna know.Unison - JesusNighttime sharpens heightens each sensation, darkness stirs and wakes imagination. Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold unfeeling light, and listen to the music of the night, the night.Solo 2 - Isnt it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground, you in midair. Send in the clowns. Dont you love farce. My fault I fear, I thought that youd want what I want, sorry my dear, but where are the clowns? There ought to me clowns. Well, maybe next year.Others - oo, oo, ah.All - Midnight, not a sound from the pavement, has the moon lost her memory she is smiling alone. In the lamplight the withered leaves collect at my feet and the wind begins to moan. The street lamp dies another night is over, another day is dawning. Touch me its so easy to leave me all alone with the memory . If you touch me youll understand what happiness is, look a new day has begun, has begun. VI. State of the Art - The Music of Contemporary BroadwayPrepare ye the way of the lord. Prepare ye the way of the lord. Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men? It is the voices of the people who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes. Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men? It is the voices of the people who will not be slaves again! When the beating of your heart echoes the beating of the drums, there is a life about to start when tomorrow comes. Solo 2 - His skin was pale and his eye was odd.All soloists - He trod the path that few have trod did Sweeney Todd,The demon barber of Fleet Street. He kept a shop in LondonTown of fancy clients and good renown. And what if none of their souls were saved? They went to their maker impeccably shaved by Sweeney, by Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street. Solo 4 - Im just a Broadway Baby walkin off my tired feet, poundin Forty-Second Street to be in a show. Someday Maybe if I stick it long enough, I can get to strut my stuff working for a nice man like a Ziegfield or a Weisman in a big time Broadway show!Wo wo wo wo wo wo wo. Wo wo wo wo wo wo wo. Yeah, Yeah. Go go go go go go go go go go! Greased Lightnin, go Greased Lightnin Greased Lightnin, go Greased Lightnin Uh huh. Uh huh. Ow! Uh huh. Greased Lightnin, go Greased Lightnin Greased Lightnin, go Greased Lightnin.Solo 5 - The sunll come out tomorrow bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow come what mayTomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow, youre always a day away. This joint is jumpin, its really jumpin. Freedom aint a state like Maine or Virginia, freedom aint across some county line. Freedom is a flame that burns within ya, freedoms in the state of mind. Freedom, Freedom, Freedom, Freedom. Freedom is a flame that burns within ya, freedoms in the state of mind. Look out for me oh, Muddy water. Your mysteries are deep and wide, and I got a need for goin someplace, and I got a need to climb up on your back and ride. The best of times is now whats left of summer but a faded rose. The best of times is now, as for tomorrow well who knows, who knows, who knows. Now, not some forgotten yesterday. Now, tomorrow is too far away. So hold this moment fast and live and love a hard as you know how. And make this moment last because the best of times is now, is now, is now, now.VII. Epilogue Give My Regards to Broadway, remember me to Herald Square: Tell all the gang at Forty Second Street that I will Soon be there. Give My Regards to old Broadway and say that Ill be there, ere long. One singular sensation, evry little step she takes. One thrilling combination, every move that she makes. One smile and suddenly know body else will do. You know youll never be lonely with you know who. One moment in her presence and you can forget the rest. For the girl is second best to none son ooh, sigh, give her your attention, do I really have to mention shes the one!(Shout) One (Sing) moment in her presence and you can forget the rest. For the girl is second best to none son ooh, sigh, give her your attention, do I really have to mention shes the Shes the, shes the one! One! One!