- Funding for the 2019 Jerry Awards broadcast
is provided by
Julie and Larry Midtbo,
A. Paul Jones Charitable Trust,
Mary Ellyn and Joe Sensenbrenner,
Thomas Terry,
and Friends of Wisconsin Public Television.
[upbeat music]
*
[all cheering]
[cheers and applause]
- Welcome to the 2019 Jerry Awards.
We're here today to encourage, recognize, and honor
excellence in high school musical theater.
Please welcome to the stage the Jerry Ensemble.
[cheers and applause]
[bright music playing]
*
all: * I'm missing a button, this is crap! *
both: * Who's missing the last two pages? *
- * They told me the caveman song was out *
both: * Will somebody shoot me? *
both: * Total crap!
boys: * Who ordered the black no sugar ?
girls: * Together now, five, six, seven, eight *
all: * Five minutes to go
* From
* 20 million people
* No, 20 million plus [all exhale]
* 20 million plus Americans
* Watching us
* Curling up on sofas
* Calling in their pets
* Passing out the popcorn
* Turning on their television sets *
* 20 million
* Ordinary folks
boys: * And Tim's career goes down the drain *
* If they don't like the jokes *
all: * 90 little minutes to get right *
* In front of 20 million people *
* Tonight
*
* 20 awful seconds to prepare *
girls: * You hold your breath * boys: * You pray for death
all: * And then you're on the air *
* 90 little minutes
* To survive
* In front of 20 million people *
* Five, four, three, two
*
Welcome to Overture Center's
Jerry Awards show.
* Live
[cheers and applause]
- The Jerry Ensemble, ladies and gentlemen.
We have such great talent, right?
Great talent in our community.
The Jerry Awards is celebrating ten years this year.
How exciting is that?
To participate in the Jerry Awards,
schools must reside in one of four communities:
the Madison community, the Milwaukee community,
the Wausau community, or the La Crosse community.
We saw 98 productions this year
produced by 92 schools or community theaters.
[cheers and applause] Right? That's incredible.
We send out a team of three professional adjudicators
whether they're industry professionals or educators.
They each write a comprehensive critique on the show.
Those three critiques get compiled
and sent back to the school along with their nominations.
At the end of the year, once we see the last production,
we announce our recipients for the year.
We go into rehearsal and put on this really great show.
We are awarding this year
18 outstanding musicals for their achievement,
and when we award the musical,
we're awarding everybody involved in that production
including the ensemble, the orchestra,
the creative team, and the production team
because it's a unified achievement.
["Once and For All" from Newsies playing]
all: * There's change coming once and for all *
* You're getting too old
* Too weak to keep holding on *
* A new world is gunning for you *
* And, Joe, we is too
* Till once and for all
* You're gone
[cheers and applause]
["Seize the Day" from Newsies playing]
- [grunts] - Whoo!
*
- Come on, Newsies!
all: Huh, huh, huh!
*
* Now is the time to seize the day *
*
* They're gonna see there's hell to pay *
*
* Nothing can break us
* No one can make us quit
* Before we're done [cheers and applause]
*
* One for all and all for
* One for all
* And all
* For one!
[cheers and applause]
["The World Will Know" from Newsies playing]
all: * So the world says no? *
* Well, the kids do too
* Try to walk all over us
* We'll stomp all over you
* Can they kick us out?
* Take away our vote?
* Will we let them stuff this crock of garbage *
* Down our throat? No! *
* Every day we wait is a day we lose *
* And this ain't for fun and it ain't for show *
* And we'll fight them toe to toe to toe *
* And, Joe, your world will
* Feel the fire and
* Finally
- * Finally
all: * Know
[cheers and applause]
- This year, we are honoring
81 leading performances for their achievement.
We grouped them into medleys,
which is really fun to put these characters together,
and here's the first of our medleys.
[cheers and applause]
["Spark of Creation" from Children of Eden playing]
*
- * I see a mountain and I want to climb it *
* I see a river and I want to leave shore *
* Where there was nothing, let there be something *
* Something made by me
* The spark of creation
* May it burn forever
* Spark of creation
* I am a keeper of the flame
* We think all we want is a lifetime of leisure *
* Each perfect day the same
* Endless vacation
* Well, that's all right if you're a kind of crustacean *
* But when you're born with an imagination *
* Sooner or later you're feeling the fire *
* Get higher and higher,
* The spark of creation...
*
[cheers and applause]
- * That's what it means to be a father *
["Father's Day" from Children of Eden playing]
* Planning their future
* As you watch your children sleep *
* That's what it means to be a father *
* I never knew that
* I would feel a love so deep *
* Oh, I will be their teacher *
* And I will be their guide
* And everything they'll ever need *
* I'll be there to provide
* And in return, they'll love me *
* Stay forever at my side
* That's what it means
* To be a father
[chuckles]
*
* For I have built a universe *
* Spectacular and new
* And I sat there in my universe *
* And learned that this was true *
* What use is a universe with no one to give it to? *
* Not a hill of beans
* Till you pass along your genes *
* That's what it means
* To be a father
man: Bravo! [cheers and applause]
["Everlasting" from Tuck Everlasting playing]
- * There are two ways home
* Down one long road
* One clear path to two conclusions *
* Does the story end
* Or never end?
* Does the secret fade?
* Or is it everlasting?
* Or I put the Tucks behind me
* And pull up the anchor
* Ride the wheel plenty
* For all that it's worth
* Turn 17
* Then 18 then 20
* For a life is the greatest wonder *
* On Earth
* Can I, should I
* Do I drink?
* Can I, should I
* Will I drink?
* There are two ways home
* Down one long road
* One clear path
* To two conclusions
* Does the story end
* Or never end?
* Does the secret fade
* Or is it everlasting?
* Is it everlasting?
*
[cheers and applause]
["Seize the Day" from Newsies playing]
*
- * Now is the time
* To seize the day
* Stare down the odds
* And seize the day
* Minute by minute
* That's how you win it
* We will find a way
* But let us seize the day
*
* Courage cannot
* Erase our fear
* Courage is when
* We face our fear
* Tell those with power
* Safe in their tower
* We will not obey
*
* Behold the brave battalion
* That stands side by side
* Too few in number
* And too proud to hide
* Then say to the others
* Who did not follow through
* You're still our brothers
* And we will fight for you
[cheers and applause]
["Cell Block Tango" from Chicago playing]
all: * Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum *
* The dirty bum, bum, bum, bum, bum *
* They had it coming, they had it coming *
* They had it coming all along
* 'Cause if they used us and they abused us *
* How would you tell us that we were wrong? *
- Mr. Billy Flynn sings "The Press Conference Rag."
Notice how his mouth never moves.
Almost.
all: * How you feeling?
- * Very frightened
all: * Are you sorry?
- Are you kidding?
all: * What's your statement? * - * All I say is
* Though my choo-choo jumped the track *
* I'd give my life to bring him back *
all: * And? - * Stay away from *
all: * What? - * Jazz and liquor *
* And the men who play for fun
all: * And what? - * That's the thought that *
all: * Yeah - * Came upon me *
* When we both reached for the gun *
all: * Oh, yes, oh, yes
* Oh, yes, they both, oh, yes *
- * Let me hear it
all: * Oh, yes, they both reached for the gun *
* The gun, the gun, the gun, oh, yes *
* They both reached for the gun *
- * A little louder
all: * Oh, yes, oh, yes, oh, yes, they both, oh, yes,
* They both, oh, yes, they both reached for the gun *
* The gun, the gun, the gun, oh, yes *
* They both reached for the gun, for the gun *
* Oh, yes, oh, yes, oh, yes
* They both, oh, yes, they both, oh, yes, they both reached for *
* The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun *
* The gun, the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun, the gun *
* The gun, the gun
- * Both reached
* For
* The
[cheers and applause]
* Gun
all: * They both reached for the gun *
[cheers and applause]
* No, I'm no one's wife, but
* Oh, I love my life
* And all
* That
* Jazz
* That jazz
[cheers and applause]
["In The Beginning" from Children of Eden ] all: * And if someday we hear *
* A voice
* If he should speak again
* Our silent father
* All he will tell us is
* The choice
* Is in our hands
* Our hands can choose
* To drop the knife
*
* Our hearts can choose
* To stop the hating
* For every moment
* Of our life
* Is the beginning
*
- * There is no journey gone
* So far
* So far we cannot stop
* And change direction
* No doom is written
* In the stars
all: [echoing] * It's in our hands *
* We cannot know what will
* Occur
* Just make our journey worth *
* The taking
* And pray we're wiser than
* We were
* In the beginning
- * It's the beginning
all: * Now we
* Be
* Children of Eden
* Grant us your pardon
* All that we leave to you
* Is the unknown
* Children of Eden
* Seek for your garden
* You and your children
* To come
* Someday
* To come
* Home
*
* Home
[cheers and applause]
all: [whispering] I've always wanted to see the Emerald City.
["One Short Day" from Wicked playing]
* One short day
* In the Emerald City
*
* One short day
* In the Emerald City
*
* One short day
* In the Emerald City
* One short day
* Full of so much to do
* Every way
* That you look in the city
* There's something exquisite you'll want to visit *
* Before the day's through
* One short day
* In the Emerald City
* One short day to have a lifetime of fun *
* One short day
* And we're warning the city
* Now that we're in here
* You'll know we've been here *
* Before we are done
*
* Who's the mage
* Whose major itinerary
* Is making all Oz merrier?
* Who's the sage
* Who's sagely sailed in
* To save our posteriors
* Whose enthuse for hot air ballooning *
* Has all of Oz honeymooning? *
* Woo
* Wizn't he wonderful? Our wonderful wizard *
girls: * One short day
* In the Emerald City
* One short day to have a lifetime of fun *
boys: * Sailed in to save our posteriors? *
all: * What a way
* To be seeing the city
* Where so many roam to
* We'll call it home too
* And then just like now
* We can say
* We're just all friends
* Best of friends
both: * All best friends
*
all: * Sharing one wonderful *
* One short
both: The Wizard will see you now.
all: * Day
[cheers and applause]
["I'm Not That Smart" from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee ] - * Doo, doo, bum
* Doodle doo, doodle doo
* Doodle doo
[crowd whooping]
I'm sorry. I forgot what the word was.
[laughter] - Oh, my God.
Acouchi. - Oh, right, acouchi.
The one South American rodent resembling the one from before.
What was it agai--
A-C-O-U-C-H-I.
Acouchi.
[laughter]
- That's correct.
- * I might be smart
* My siblings can't believe that I got it right *
* But I got it right, right?
* I didn't cheat
* I saw this light and it was neat *
* I like to laugh, I like to spell *
* I like to never hear the bell *
* And if this competition's hell *
* At least I'm finally a part *
* I feel my heart begin to swell *
* I like--no, no, no, no!
* I love
* To spell
[voice cracking]
I like it a lot!
[cheers and applause]
["It's De-Lovely" from Anything Goes plays]
- * I feel a sudden urge to sing *
* The kind of ditty that invokes the spring *
* Mi, mi, mi, mi
* Re, re, re, re
* Do, sol, mi
* Do, la, si
* The night is young, the skies are clear *
* And if you wanna go walking, dear *
* It's delightful, it's delicious *
* It's de-lovely
* I understand the reason why *
* You're sentimental 'cause so am I *
* It's delightful, it's delicious *
* It's de-lovely
* You can tell at a glance
* What a swell night this is for romance *
* You can hear dear Mother Nature *
* Murmuring low
* It's de-lovely
*
[cheers and applause]
["Santa Fe (prologue)" from Newsies playing]
*
- * They say folks is dying to get here *
* Me, I'm dying to get away
* To a little town out west
* That's spanking new
[laughs softly]
* And while I ain't never been there *
* I can see it clear as day
* If you want
* I bet ya you could see it, too *
*
* Close your eyes
* Come with me
* Where it's clean and green and pretty *
* And they went and made a city *
* Out of clay
* Why, the minute that you get there *
* Folks'll walk right up and say *
* Welcome home, son
* Welcome home
* To Santa Fe
* Planting crops
* Splitting rails
* Swapping tales around the fire *
* 'Cept for Sundays
* When you lie around
* All day
* Soon your friends is more like family *
* And they's begging you to stay *
* Ain't that neat?
* Living sweet
* In Santa Fe
*
[cheers and applause]
- * She'd say, "You're the cat's meow" *
* Then we'd wow the crowd again *
* When she'd...
["I Can't Do It Alone" from Chicago playing]
* I'd go...
*
* We'd go...
*
* And then those two-bit Johnnies did it around *
* To cheer the best attraction in town *
* We nearly tore the balcony down *
And we'd say, "Okay, boys, we're going home.
"But before we go,
here's a few more parting shots!"
And this-- this we did in perfect unison!
*
[audience cheering]
*
* Now you see me going through it *
* You may think there's nothing to it *
* But I simply cannot do it
*
* Alone
*
[cheers and applause]
["Skid Row (Downtown)" from Little Shop of Horrors playing]
boys: * Yes, you go
girls: * Downtown, where the cabs don't stop *
all: * Downtown
- * Where the food is slop
all: * Downtown, where the hop-heads flop *
* In the snow
* Down on Skid Row
* Uptown, you cater to a million jerks *
* Uptown, you're messengers and mailroom clerks *
* Eating all your lunches at the hot dog carts *
* The bosses take your money and they break your hearts *
* Uptown, you cater to a million whores *
* You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors *
* Your morning's tribulation, afternoon's a curse *
* And 5:00 is even worse
- * Poor
* All my life, I've always been poor *
* I keep asking God what I'm for *
* And he tells me, gee, I'm not sure *
* Sweep that floor, kid, oh
* I started life as an orphan, a child on the street *
* Here on Skid Row
* He took me in, gave me shelter *
* A bed, crust of bread, and a job *
* Treats me like dirt
* Calls me a slob, which I am *
- Ha! It's 'cause you are.
- * So I live
all: * Downtown
- * That's your home address, you live *
all: * Downtown
- * When your life's a mess, you live *
all: * Downtown
- * Where depression's just
* Status quo
all: * Down on Skid Row
- * Someone show me a way
* To get outta here
* 'Cause I constantly pray
* I'll get outta here
* Please, won't somebody say
* I'll get outta here
* Someone give me my shot
* Or I'll rot here
both: * Gee, it sure would be swell to get outta here *
* Bid the gutter farewell and get outta here *
* I'd move heaven and hell to get outta Skid *
* I'll do I don't know what to get outta Skid *
* But a hell of a lot to get outta Skid *
* People tell me there's not a way outta Skid *
* But believe me, I gotta get outta *
all: * Skid Row
[cheers and applause]
["Skid Row" reprise plays]
*
["Be a Dentist" from Little Shop of Horrors plays]
- * When I was younger and just a bad little kid *
* My mama noticed funny things that I did *
* Like shooting puppies with a BB gun *
* I'd poison guppies and when I was done *
* I'd find some pussy cat and bash in its head *
* That's when my mama said
boys: * What did she say?
- * She said, my boy, I think someday *
* You'll find a way
* To make your natural tendencies pay *
* You'll be a dentist
boys: * Be a dentist
- * You have a talent for causing things *
* Pain boys: * Pain
- * Son
[crowd cheering]
* Be a dentist
boys: * Be a dentist
- * People will pay you to be inhumane *
boys: * Inhumane
- * Your temperament's wrong for the priesthood *
* And teaching would suit you still less *
* Son, be a dentist
* You'll be a success
*
[cheers and applause]
["I Am Aldolpho" from The Drowsy Chaperone ]
- Not so fast.
* Now just in case you didn't hear, Aldolpho *
* I'll try to make it very clear, Aldolpho *
* The lovely ladies always cheer Aldolpho *
* When I repeat myself
* I am Aldolpho
* I can sing it high
[high-pitched] * Aldolpho
* I can sing it low
[low-pitched] * Aldolpho
[laughter]
* I can sing it very fast
[quickly] * Aldolpho
[laughter]
* I can sing it very
* Slow...ly
I'd do it now,
but it could take hours.
* Now
* Let me spell it out for you *
It goes...
[vocalizing] * A
* Dol
F...
* F-foh
*
* I am
* Aldolpho
*
Aldolpho.
[cheers and applause]
["Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz plays]
- * Somewhere
* Over the rainbow
* Skies are
* Blue
* And the dreams
* That you dare to dream
* Really do come true
* Someday I'll wish upon a star *
* And wake up where the clouds are far *
* Behind me
* Where troubles melt like lemon drops *
* Away above the chimney tops *
* That's where you'll
* Find me
* Somewhere
* Over the rainbow
* Blue birds
* Fly
* Birds fly
* Over the rainbow
* Why, then, oh, why
* Can't I?
* If happy little bluebirds fly *
* Beyond the rainbow
* Why, oh, why
* Can't
* I
[cheers and applause]
["Can You Find It In Your Heart?" from Footloos e] - * Can't you remember *
* When we were that age?
* Pumped up with promise
* And wrestling with rage
* Can't you remember
* When we were a family back when? *
* Could we be one
* Again?
*
* Does it ever cross your mind
* That I miss you?
* Is there any chance
* We'll find the joy that we shared at the start? *
* Can you remember
* What you felt
* Before that feeling fell
* Apart?
* Can you find it in your heart? *
*
* Have you lost my love
* Somewhere far behind
* Or can you find it in
* Your heart
[cheers and applause]
["Anything Goes" from Anything Goes playing]
*
- * In olden days, a glimpse of stocking *
* Was looked on as something shocking *
* But now, God knows
* Anything goes
* Good authors too, who once knew better words *
* Now only use four-letter words *
* Writing prose
* Anything goes
* The world's gone mad today, and good's bad today *
* And black's white today, and day's night today *
* When most guys today that women prize today *
* Are just silly gigolos
* And though I'm not a great romancer *
* I know that I'm bound to answer *
* When you propose
* Anything goes
*
[crowd cheering]
*
all: * The world has gone mad today *
* And good's bad today, and black's white today *
* And day's night today
* When most guys today that women prize today *
* Are just silly gigolos
* So though I'm not a great romancer *
* I know that I'm bound to answer *
* When you propose
* Anything goes
- * If saying your prayers you like *
* If green pears you like, if old chairs you like *
* If backstairs you like, if love affairs you like *
* With young bears you like, why, nobody will oppose *
all; * So though I'm not a great romancer *
* I know that I'm bound to answer *
* When you propose
* Anything goes
*
Yeah!
[cheers and applause]
["Come to Me, Bend to Me" from Brigadoon playing]
*
- * Because they've told me
* I can't behold ye
* Till wedding music
* Starts playing
* To ease my longing,
* There's nothing wrong in me *
* Standing out here and saying
* Just come to me
* Bend to me
* Kiss me good day
* Darling, my darling
* 'Tis all I can say
* Is come to me
* Bend to me
* Kiss me good day
[girls cheer]
* Give me your lips
* And don't take them away
[cheers and applause]
["Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid playing]
- * Now's your moment
* Floating in a blue lagoon
* Boy, you better do it soon
* No time will be better
* She don't say a word, and she won't say a word *
* Until you kiss the girl
* Sha la la la la la
* Float along and listen to the song *
* The song say kiss the girl
* Sha la la la la la, the music play *
* Do what the music say
* Go on and kiss the girl
* You've gotta kiss the girl
* Go on and kiss the girl
* Whoa, go on and kiss the girl *
[cheers and applause]
["I Know Where I've Been" from Hairspray playing]
*
- * There's a road
* We've been traveling
* Lost so many
* On the way
* But the riches
* Will be plenty
* Worth the risk
* And the chances
* That we take
* There's a dream
* In the future
* There's a struggle
* That we have yet to win
* Use that pride
* In our hearts
* To lift us up
* Till tomorrow
* Just to sit still
* Would be a sin
*
* Lord knows I know
[cheers and applause]
* Where I've been
* Oh, when we win
* I'll give thanks to my God 'cause I know where I've *
* Been
[cheers and applause]
["Iowa Stubborn" from The Music Man playing]
all: * Oh, there's nothing halfway *
* About the Iowa way to treat you *
* When we treat you, which we may not do at all *
* There's an Iowa kind of special *
* Chip-on-the-shoulder attitude *
* We've never been without that we recall *
* We can be cold
* As our falling thermometers in December *
* If you ask about our weather in July *
* And we're so by God stubborn *
* We could stand touching noses *
* For a week at a time and never see eye-to-eye *
* So what the heck, you're welcome *
* Join us at the picnic
* You can have your fill of all the food you bring yourself *
* You really ought to give Iowa *
* Hawkeye Iowa
* Dubuque, Des Moines, Davenport, Marshalltown *
* Mason City, Keokuk, Ames, Clear Lake *
* Ought to give Iowa a try
*
[cheers and applause]
[marching music playing]
*
[all whooping]
["Seventy-Six Trombones" from The Music Man playing]
*
all: Whoo, whoo!
[whistles of admiration]
- Yip!
- Ohhh! Whoo! Whoo!
Whoo-ooh!
all: * 76 trombones led the big parade *
* With 110 cornets close at hand *
* They were followed by rows and rows *
* Of the finest virtuosos
* The cream of every famous band *
* 76 trombones hit the counterpoint *
* While 110 coronets blazed away *
* To the rhythm of harch, harch, harch *
* All the kids began to march *
* And they're marching still right today *
*
[all whooping]
*
all: Whoo! Whoo!
Whoo! Whoo!
Whoo! - Whoo!
- Whoo-whoo!
*
[cheers and applause]
["Seize the Day" from Newsies playing]
all: * Now is the time
* To seize the day
* Stare down the odds
* And seize the day
* Once we've begun
* If we stand as one
* Someday becomes
* Somehow
* And a prayer becomes
* A vow
- * And the strike starts
* Right damn now
["The World Will Know" from Newsies playing]
all: * Pulitzer may own the World, but he don't own us *
- * Pulitzer may own the World, but he don't own us *
all: * Pulitzer may crack the whip, but he won't whip us *
- Pulitzer may crack the whip, but he won't whip us!
all: * Ah, so the world says no? *
* Well, the kids do too
* Try to walk all over us
* We'll stomp all over you
- * Can they kick us out, take away our vote? *
all: * Will we let them stuff this crock of garbage *
* Down our throat, no!
* Every day we wait is a day we lose *
* And this ain't for fun, and it ain't for show *
* And we'll fight them toe to toe to toe *
* And, Joe, your world will feel the fire *
* And finally
* Finally know
[cheers and applause]
["Once and For All" from Newsies playing]
all: * Once and for all
* Once and for all
* There's change coming once and for all *
* You're getting too old
* Too weak to keep holding on *
* A new world is gunning for you *
* And, Joe, we is too
* Till once and for all
* You're gone
*
- * Once and for all
all: * Once and for all
[cheers and applause]
- So now it's time to hear two amazing vocalists.
Each year, we send two representatives
to New York City to compete in The National
High School Musical Theatre Awards program,
The Jimmy Awards.
This year, there are 43 programs
from across the country,
then all of these students will make their Broadway debut
at the Minskoff Theatre in New York City.
I'm pleased to present for you tonight
our female representative,
Lauren Harkness.
[cheers and applause]
And our male representative,
Christian Spaay.
Lauren, take it away.
["Journey to the Past" from Anastasia playing]
*
- * Heart, don't fail me now
* Courage, don't desert me
* Don't turn back
* Now that we're here
* People always say
* Life is full of choices
* No one ever mentions
* Fear
* Or how the world
* Can seem so vast
* On a journey
* To the past
*
* One step at a time
* One hope then another
* Who knows where this road
* May go
* Back to who I was
* On to find my future
* Things my heart
* Still needs to know, yes!
* Let this be a sign
* Let this road be mine
* Let it lead me to my past
* And bring me
* Home
* At
* Last
*
[cheers and applause]
["Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Mis�rables plays]
*
- * From the table
* In the corner
* They could see
* A world reborn
* And they rose
* With voices ringing
* And I can hear them now
* The very words
* That they had sung
* Became their last
* Communion
*
* On the lonely
* Barricade
* At dawn
*
* Oh, my friends, my friends
* Forgive me
* That I live
* And you are gone
* There's a grief that can't be spoken *
* There's a pain goes on
* And on
* Phantom faces at the window *
* Phantom shadows on the floor
* Empty chairs at empty tables
* Where my friends will meet
* No more
* Oh, my friends, my friends
* Don't ask me
* What your sacrifice was for *
* Empty chairs at empty tables
* Where my friends will sing
* No more
*
[cheers and applause]
- Dang.
We have one final number for you.
Please welcome to the stage
all the leads and the supporting.
Here they are with Hamilton.
[cheers and applause]
["My Shot" from Hamilton playing]
*
- * I am not throwing away my shot *
* I am not throwing away my shot *
* Hey, yo, I'm just like my country *
* I'm young, scrappy, and hungry *
* And I'm not throwing away my shot *
Here we go!
all: * I am not throwing away my shot *
* I am not throwing away my shot *
* Hey, yo, I'm just like my country *
* I'm young, scrappy, and hungry *
* And I'm not throwing away my shot *
* I am not throwing away my shot *
* Hey, yo, I'm just like my country *
* I'm young, scrappy, and hungry *
* And I'm not throwing away my shot *
* Everybody sing whoa, whoa, whoa *
girls: Hey! all: * Whoa
girls: Whoo!
all: * Whoa - Yeah!
all: * Yeah - And here we go!
all: * Whoa, whoa, whoa
girls: I said shout it to the rooftops!
all: * Whoa girls: * Said to the rooftops *
all: * Whoa, yeah
girls: * Come on, come on, let's go *
- * I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory *
* When's it gonna get me?
* In my sleep? Seven feet ahead me? *
* If I see it coming, do I run or do I let it be? *
* Is it like a beat without a melody? *
* See, I never thought I'd live past 20 *
* Where I come from, some get half as many *
- * Ask anybody why we living fast *
* And we laugh, reach for a flask *
* We have to make this moment last *
* That's plenty, scratch that *
* This is not a moment, it's the movement *
* Where all the hungriest brothers *
* With something to prove went? *
* Foes oppose us, we take an honest stand *
* We roll like Moses, claiming our promised land *
- * And? If we win our independence? *
* Is that guarantee of freedom for our descendants? *
* Or will the blood we shed begin an endless *
* Cycle of vengeance and death with no defendants? *
- * I know the action in the street is exciting *
* But, Jesus, between all the bleeding and fighting *
* I've been reading and writing *
* We need to handle our financial situation *
* Are we a nation of states?
* What's the state of our nation? *
- * I'm past patiently waiting
* I'm passionately smashing every expectation *
* Every action's an act of creation *
* I'm laughing in the face of casualties and sorrow *
* For the first time, I'm thinking past tomorrow *
all: * And I am not throwing away my shot *
* I am not throwing away my shot *
* Hey, yo, I'm just like my country *
* I'm young, scrappy, and hungry *
* And I'm not throwing away my shot *
* I am not throwing away my shot *
* Rise up, rise up, take a shot *
* Whoa, whoa, whoa
* Rise up, take a shot, shot, shot *
* Hey, yo, it's time to take a shot, time to take a shot *
* And I am not throwing away my *
* Not throwing away my shot
[cheers and applause]
- Our leads and our supporting.
You've been a wonderful audience.
Thank you so much.
What talent we have here in Wisconsin.
Good night, everybody.
[bright music]
*
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Julie and Larry Midtbo,
A. Paul Jones Charitable Trust,
Mary Ellyn and Joe Sensenbrenner,
Thomas Terry,
and Friends of Wisconsin Public Television.