HeyJared100 Showtunes: The Podcast
This project will use a series of playlists to guide you through 100 essential Broadway songs and their iconic musicals. Posts from 100Showtunes.com, read aloud! www.100showtunes.com
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No. 50. “I’m Here” (opens the original)
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December 2005. You’re at an early performance of the new musical The Color Purple produced by, among others, Oprah Winfrey (who was Oscar nominated for her work in the film version). The score—by three legendary pop-writers who had never really collaborated together or written a musical before—blends jazz, blues, ragtime, folk, and contemporary music. The musical opens with an overture (when’s the last time you heard a new musical do that?) before introducing Celie, a young woman, pregnant for t
No. 49. “Wig in a Box” (opens the original)
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Spring 1998. This is one of the strongest Broadway seasons in recent memory, with The Lion King , Ragtime , and the new revival of Cabaret . But you’ve been hearing murmurs that the coolest new show in town is actually playing in the ballroom of an old hotel in the West Village. So you’re checking out Hedwig and the Angry Inch . The venue feels more like a grungy club than a theater, with a mostly bare stage save for a band and their instruments. A character named Yitzhak, played by a woman in m
No. 48. “This is the Moment” (opens the original)
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Summer 1997. You’re seeing Jekyll & Hyde . A friend of yours, a self-proclaimed “Jekkie,” has been hyping up this show’s concept album for years and has traveled to see it several times during its prolonged pre-Broadway tour. So if nothing else, you’re curious. It’s set in a prog-rock version of Victorian England and could really be called Emma & Jekyll & Lucy & Hyde . Yes, there’s a scientist with a homicidal alter-ego, but the romantic attentions of two women carry just as much focus. Dr. Henr
No. 47. “I’m Still Here” (opens the original)
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Spring 1971. You’re at Follies , Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince, and Michael Bennett’s follow-up to Company . The opinions of both critics and acquaintances has been so mixed, you can’t imagine how they were all watching the same show. (Though everyone agrees that the poster is absolutely incredible .) The setting is the ficticious “Weismann Theater,” which held an annual Follies (à la Zigfield) in the years between the wars. (So, 30-40 years ago). Weisman is hosting a reunion of the former Wei
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