female announcer: Broadcast of
Overture's High School Musical Theater Awards
is funded in part by:
Julie and Larry Midtbo
Mary Ellyn and Joe Sensenbrenner
A. Paul Jones Charitable Trust
and Friends of Wisconsin Public Television.
[electronic pop music]
*
- Being on stage is just a totally different experience
that you can't get from anywhere else,
and it's just the most amazing feeling in the world.
*
- Breathtaking, eye-opening,
just amazing.
- It's really cool, actually.
*
- There's so many talented people
that share the same, like,
passion and love for this that I do
that I've never even seen before.
It makes me feel just so alive.
*
- I perform because
it's the only thing that makes me feel whole.
It's my way to inspire others,
to understand other people's stories.
*
- I'd just say it's
probably one of the best learning experiences
someone who wishes to go into the arts could have.
- Spectacular. Nothing like it.
*
[upbeat piano music]
*
all: * Once torn asunder
* Down six feet under
* We get together here
* Hold your decaying
* Hear what we're saying
* Time now to give a cheer
- Line dance!
*
Bunny hop.
*
Do the twist.
*
Rigor mortis.
[laughter]
Death rattle!
*
all: * When you're an Addams
- * That's right when you're an Addams *
- * You have a very special duty *
- * Late night out with the Addams *
- * When you're an Addams - * With one bite
all: * You're obligated to the clan *
* It's family first
* And family last
* And family by and by
* When you're an Addams
* The standard answers don't apply *
* When you're an Addams
* You do what Addams do or
- [groaning]
all: * Die
*
[cheers and applause]
- "The Addams Family"!
Well, hello! Welcome to the Tommy Awards!
This is our eighth year of the program.
[cheers and applause]
To participate in the Tommy Awards,
schools must reside
in one of three regions:
either the Madison region,
the Milwaukee region,
or the Wausau region.
That's right, you heard me say "Wausau."
[cheers and applause]
So to participate in the program, schools apply
to have their high school musical reviewed.
We send out three reviewers
who complete a very thorough critique.
Sometimes those critiques are 25 to 30 pages.
Ooh.
Along with the review, they also get
nomination for awards,
and so at the end of the year,
when we finish our last production,
we announce our recipients for the year
and we put on this really big show.
This year, we are awarding
56 performers at lead performers,
so we medleyed those leads together
and here's our first medley of the night.
Enjoy the show.
[cheers and applause]
- * I love him
* But every day I'm learning
* All my life
* I've only been pretending
* Without me
* His world will go on turning *
* A world that's full of happiness *
* That I have never known
* I love him
* But only on my own
[cheers and applause]
- * Walk on, walk on
* With hope in your heart
* And you'll never
* Walk alone
* You'll never walk
* Alone
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat piano music]
- [gasps] A customer?
* Wait, what's your rush, what's your hurry *
* You gave me such a fright
* I thought you was a ghost
* Half a minute, can't ya sit
* Sit ya down, sit
* All I meant is that
* I haven't seen a customer for weeks *
* Did you come here for a pie, sir? *
* Do forgive me if me head's a little vague *
* Ugh! What is that?
* But you'd think we had the plague *
* From the way the people keep avoiding *
* No you don't
* Heaven knows I try, sir Ech!
* But there's no one comes in even to inhale *
* Right you are, sir, would you like a drop of ale *
* Mind you I can't hardly blame them *
* These are probably the worst pies *
* In London
* Only lard and nothing more
* Is that just revolting
* All greasy and gritty
* It looks like it's molting
* And tastes like...
* Well, pity
* A woman alone
* With limited wind
* And the worst pies in London
* Ah, sir
* Times is hard
[cheers and applause]
- * Ever after all: * Ever after
- * There were dangers and confusions *
* And the paths would often swerve *
all: * We did not
- * There were constant disillusions *
* But they never lost their nerve *
- * And we reached the right conclusions *
- * And we got what we deserve *
all: * Not a sigh and not a sorrow *
* Tenderness and laughter
* Joy today and bliss tomorrow *
* And forever after
* Though it's fearful
* Though it's deep, though it's dark *
* And you may lose the path
* Though you may encounter wolves *
* You can't just act
* You have to listen
* You can't just act, you have to think *
* There are always wolves, there are always spells *
* There are always beans or a giant dwells *
* So into the woods you go again *
* You have to every now and then *
* Into the woods no telling when *
* Be ready for the journey
* Into the woods but not too fast *
* Or what you wish you lose at last *
- * Into the woods but mind the past *
- * Into the woods but mind the future *
- * Into the woods but not to stray *
all: * Or tempt the wolf or steal from the giant *
* The way is dark the light is dim *
* But now there's you, me, her, and him *
- * The chances look small
- * The choices look grim
all: * But everything you learn there *
* Will help you to return there *
- * The light is getting dimmer *
- * I think I see a glimmer
all: * Into the woods you have to grope *
* But that's the way you learn to cope *
* Into the woods to find there's hope *
* Of getting through the journey *
* Into the woods each time you go *
* There's more to learn of what you know *
* Into the woods but not too slow *
* Into the woods, it's nearing midnight *
* Into the woods to mind the wolf *
* To heed the witch, to honor the giant *
* To mind, to heed, to find, to think *
* To teach, to join, to go to the festival *
* Into the woods
* Then out of the woods
* And happy ever after
[cheers and applause]
- I play--
I play Gomez Addams in "The Addams Family."
I've never had a duet
that's like, like this,
and it's actually a really, really cool experience.
* Not today
- There's so many talented people that share
the same, like, passion and love for this that I do
that I've never even seen before.
It's just really helped me feel like
I want to keep doing this.
It makes me feel just so alive.
- I love it. This is what I do, and when I'm on stage,
I don't stutter, and when I'm singing, I don't slur.
My lines are down, so I love just that.
It's kind of like being free, almost.
* Can you confirm this is the worst hotel in Paris *
* Because I need to get your ghoulish guarantee *
* What would I pay if you could say *
* You'd serve my petit déjeuner *
* From an abandoned and condemned pâtisserie *
- * It must be clear
* Don't want to circulate misnomers *
* There must be roaches in the bath at any cost *
* It says right here in my new guide
* I bought from Frommer's
* That even in July the pipes are thick with frost *
- * Is this the moment where I turn a little gray? *
- * Is this the moment where my marriage vows decay? *
both: * Is this the moment where Morticia runs away? *
* No
- * Not today
both: * Not today
[cheers and applause]
- Once upon a time,
there was a little ogre named Shrek,
who lived with his parents in a bog by a tree.
*
* Keep your big, bright, beautiful world *
* I'm happy where I am all alone *
* I got all I need
* So read the stinkin' sign
Ha-ha!
* Keep your big, bright
* Beautiful world
* I party on my own
* Anyway
* Doin' what I can
* With a one-man conga line
all: * Story of my life
* Always double-crossed
* Always in the woods
* Always getting lost
* Always on the ropes
* Always up a creek
* Always kicked around and treated like a freak *
* That's the story of my life, yes, sir *
* That's the story of my life, oy vey *
* That's the story of my life *
*
[cheers and applause]
- * A perfect happy ending
* That's how
* It should be
- And that is how the little ogre
came to live in a swamp
with a beautiful princess.
- And his best friend.
all: * This is our story
* This is our story
- God bless us, every one.
all: * The end
[cheers and applause]
[rhythmic piano music]
all: * Tradition
* Tradition
* Tradition, tradition
* Tradition
- It's about this family
who lives in Russia,
and they go through a whole problem with
all their daughters not wanting to follow tradition.
And basically, they get
kicked out of their town
and they just have to start a new life.
* May the Lord fulfill our Sabbath prayer for you *
It's a very emotionally draining show
to be a part of, but it also was a lot of fun.
- * To Lazar Wolf - * To Tevye
all: * To Tzeitel your daughter
- * My wife
all: * May all your futures be pleasant ones *
* Not like our present ones
* Drink l'chaim to life
* To life, l'chaim
* L'chaim, l'chaim to life
* It takes a wedding to make us say *
* Let's live another day
* Drink l'chaim to life
* We'll raise our glass and sip a drop of schnapps *
* In honor of the great good luck that favored you *
* We know that when good fortune favors *
* Two such men
* It stands to reason we deserve it too *
* To us and our good fortune
* Be happy, be healthy
Long life!
* And if our good fortune never comes *
* Here's to whatever comes
* Drink l'chaim to life
[cheering]
*
[overlapping verses]
* Tradition
* The papas, the papas
* Tradition
[cheers and applause]
[melancholy piano music]
- * No matter what you say
* Children won't listen
* No matter what you know
* Children refuse
* To learn
* Guide them along the way
* Still they won't listen
* Children can only grow
* From something you love
* To something you lose
[dramatic music]
[cheers and applause]
- * And if they fall as Lucifer fell *
* They fall in flame
* For so it must be
* For so it is written
* On the doorway to paradise
* That those who falter and those who fall *
* Must pay the price
*
* Lord, let me find him
* That I may see him
* Safe behind bars
* I will never rest
* Till then
* This I swear
by the stars *
[cheers and applause]
- * And furthermore
* Just from stalling and stalling *
* And stalling the wedding trip *
* A person can develop la grippe *
*
* When they get on the train
* To Niagara
* And she can hear
* Church bells chime
* The compartment is air-conditioned *
* And the mood sublime
* Then they get off at Saratoga *
* For the 14th time
* A person can develop la grippe *
* La grippe
* La post-nasal drip
* With the wheezes
* And the sneezes
* And the sinus that's really a pip *
* From a lack of community property *
* And the feeling she's getting too old *
* A person can develop a bad, bad cold *
Achoo!
[cheers and applause]
[ragtime piano music]
- * Wave your little hand and whisper *
* So long, dearie
* You ain't gonna see me anymore *
* And when you discover that your life is dreary *
* Don't you come a-knockin'
* At my door
* 'Cause I'll be all dolled up
*And singing that song that says
* You dog, I told you so
* So, wave your little hand
* And whisper so long, dearie, dearie *
* Should have said so long so long ago *
* Because you treated me so rotten and rough *
* I've had enough
* Of feeling low
* So wave your little hand
* And whisper so long, dearie, dearie *
* Should have said so long so long ago *
[cheers and applause]
- * What about me?
*
I'm from Holmen High School
and this will be my third time
performing at the Tommys.
My sophomore year, I won the spirit award,
and then last year,
I won outstanding lead for Paulette in "Legally Blonde"
and now I'm here.
This spring, we did
"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"
and I played Logainne SchwartzandGrubenierre.
all: * Which is a very nice, very nice *
* Very, very, very nice
* Very nice, very nice
* Very, very, very nice
* Very nice
* Beginning
- It's a really small cast.
There are six spellers and two adults and,
of course, we have some, like, other supporting roles,
but it was just super fun getting close to the cast.
Like, my favorite moment
probably wasn't even on stage.
all: * Life is random and unfair *
* Life is pandemonium
- "Staphylococcus."
all: * That's the reason we despair *
- * Life is pandemonium - * Life is pandemonium
- "Broccoli."
- * I knew that word
all: * Gosh dang it
- * It is such a calamity
all: * Where should we begin?
* The best spellers
- * Don't necessarily win
all: * Life is pandemonium
* Life is pandemonium
- * Set your sights
* I am on a mission
- Miss Park, "antediluvian."
- * We have rights, we have rights *
* That's why we complain
- Mr. Barfee, "halitosis."
- * Gosh, life bites
* But I like competition
- Miss Ovstrovsky, "schematic."
- * In these lights
* Can you feel our pain
- Somebody spell "crayon."
all: "Crayon"?
* Life is random and unfair
* Life is pandemonium
- * They don't win, they don't win *
* They don't win, no, they don't *
all: * Life is random and unfair *
- * Life
all: * Life is pandemonium
- * Is pandemonium
* Yes, it is
* Oh, yes, it is
all: * Life is pande- pande-pande-pandemonium *
- * Yes, it is
all: * Yeah
[cheers and applause]
[melancholy piano music]
- * No more giants
* Waging war
* Can't we just pursue our lives *
* With our children and our wives *
* Till that happier day arrives *
* How do you ignore
* All the witches
*
* All the curses
* All the wolves, all the lies *
* The false hopes, the good-byes *
* The reverses
* All the wondering what even worse is *
* Still in store
* All the children
* All the giants
* No more
*
[cheers and applause]
- Three, two, one!
* It's all the same
"Rock of Ages" is a crazy, fourth wall-breaking,
super fun kind of...
party, almost, musical.
Um, it's really all about
bringing the audience in
and making them feel like they're up there
on that stage with you and rocking out.
* Sometimes I sleep
* Sometimes it's not for days
* The people I meet
* Always go their separate ways *
* Sometimes you tell the day
* By the bottle that you drink *
* Sometimes when you're alone
* Well, all you do is think
* Oh, I'm a cowboy
* On a steel horse I ride
* Oh, I'm wanted
* Dead or alive
[cheers and applause]
[rock guitar music]
- [straining and groaning]
[cheers and applause]
*
Uh! Ah! Uh-oof!
Ah! Ah!
*
[yells]
*
Ah! Ah!
Come on, you bastards!
[frantic orchestral music]
[screams]
[rock music]
[grunts]
Come on!
*
[screams]
- * Solidarity, solidarity
* Solidarity forever
- No!
*
- * Solidarity forever
- Ah!
- * Solidarity forever
* Solidarity forever
- No!
[cheers and applause]
- * Run freedom run
* Freedom, run away
* My friends, you have to run run, a-run, a-run *
* Freedom run away
* That freedom sun
* Will shine someday
* Till then you better run, run-a, run-a run *
* Freedom run away
* There's a trickle of sweat
* Dripping in your ear
* But still you gotta run, run-a, run-a, run *
* Freedom run away
* Now don't you fret
*
* And never fear
* Till freedom's won, won-a won-a, won *
* Freedom run away all: * Run freedom run
- * There's a great big Cladwell on your tail *
all: * Run freedom run
- * And he's put his henchmen on your trail *
all: * Run freedom run
- * Oh, I'm simply laying out the facts for you *
* Great big Cladwell's making tracks for you *
* Ain't no time to relax for you *
all: * Run freedom run
- * Run freedom run all: * Run freedom run
* Run freedom run
- * Freedom run away
all: * Freedom run away
* Freedom run away
* My friends
* You'll have to run, run-a, run-a, run *
* Freedom run away
[harmonizing] * Freedom run away
* That freedom sun
[quietly] * That freedom sun
* Will shine someday
- Three, four! all: * Till then
* You better run, run freedom run *
* Freedom run away
- * Run freedom run
all: * Hallelujah
- * Freedom run away
* My friends, you have to run, run-a, run-a, run *
* Freedom run away
* That freedom sun
* Will shine someday
all: * Run, run-a, run-a, run
* Run-a, run-a, run
* Hallelujah
- * With the wind in your hair
* You'll run to freedom glory
* That freedom sun will shine *
* All over your freedom glory
* I said freedom
all: Whoo!
- * I said freedom
* I said freedom
* Freedom run
* Away
*
[cheers and applause]
- * And you'll be there to see it *
* Stand and breathe it all our day *
* Stoop and feel it
* Stop and hear it
* Spring, I'll say
* And now the sun
* Is climbing high
* Rising fast on fire
* Glaring down through the gloom *
* Gone the gray, I say
* The sun spells the doom
* Of the winter's reign
* Ice and chill must retire
* Come the day, I say
* And you'll be there to see it *
* Oh, stand and breathe it
* All our day
* Stoop and feel it
* Stop
* And hear it
* Spring, I'll say
[cheers and applause]
- * Outside, life is grim
* Filled with smut and scandal to the brim *
* I suppose
* There may be room for him
Frankly...
* I don't plan to hold my breath
But...
* Here within these walls
* Days are filled with grace
* God is in his place
* His wisdom still respected
* Here within these walls
* Life has a different pace
* Than life beyond our doors
* And for what it's worth
* This life's now yours
[cheers and applause]
- Sweeney was a really big challenge
because Sondheim music is just a monster to begin with,
but it's such an honor to work on.
- Oh, it's a really hard show, um, vocally.
Stephen Sondheim did not hold back on that show.
The school edition is
not too different from the regular, professional edition.
- Working with the cast was really nice
because we're all a really, really tight group,
and there isn't really much disparity between all of us.
We all love what we're doing.
It's really good to see people
who are really good at their dancing,
good at their singing, good at their acting,
all coming together.
all: * His needs are few, his room is bare *
* He hardly uses his fancy chair *
* The more he bleeds, the more he lives *
* He never forgets and he never forgives *
* Perhaps today you gave a nod *
* To Sweeney Todd
* The demon barber of Fleet Street *
*
* Sweeney wishes the world away *
* Sweeney's weeping for yesterday *
* Hugging the blade, waiting the years *
* Hearing the music that nobody hears *
* Sweeney waits in the parlor hall *
* Sweeney leans on the office wall *
* No one can help, nothing can hide you *
* Isn't that Sweeney there beside you *
* Sweeney wishes the world away *
* Sweeney's weeping for yesterday *
[frantic singing in round]
* Sweeney, Sweeney
* Sweeney
- There! - There!
all: There! There! There!
*
- * Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd *
all: * Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd *
- * He served a dark and a hungry god *
all: * He served a dark and a hungry god *
- * To seek revenge may lead to hell *
- * But everyone does it if seldom as well *
*
both: * As Sweeney
* As Sweeney Todd
* The demon barber of Fleet
*
* Street
*
[cheers and applause]
- * You can take
* You can give
* Let him be
* Let him live
* If I die
* Let me die
* Let him live
* Bring him home
* Bring him
* Home
[cheers and applause]
[dark piano music]
*
- * I admit that in the past, I've been a nasty *
* They weren't kidding when they called me *
* Well, a witch
* But you'll find that nowadays *
* I've mended all my ways
* Repented, seen the light
* And made a switch
True? Yes.
* And I fortunately know
* A little magic
* It's a talent that I always have possessed *
* And here lately, please don't laugh *
* I use it on behalf
* Of the miserable, lonely, and depressed *
* Pathetic
* Poor unfortunate souls
* In pain, in need
* This one longing to be thinner *
* That one wants to get the girl *
* And do I help them
* Yes, indeed
* Those poor unfortunate souls
* It's sad but true
* They come flocking to my cauldron *
* Crying "Spells, Ursula, please" *
* And I help them, yes, I do *
* Poor unfortunate
* Souls
[cheers and applause]
- Once upon a time...
[piano music]
In a far-off kingdom... - * I wish
* More than anything - Lived a young maiden...
- * More than life - A sad young lad...
- * More than jewels - And a childless baker.
- * More than life - * I wish
- His wife... - * More than anything
- * More than the moon
- * The king is giving a festival *
* I wish to go to the festival
both: * More than riches - * I wish
* My cow would give us some milk *
both: * More than anything
- * I wish we had a child
- * Please, pal, squeeze, pal
- * I wish to go to the festival *
all: * I wish
- * And you think of all of the things you've seen *
* And you wish that you could live in between *
* And you're back again, only different than *
* Before
* After the sky
* There are giants in the sky *
* There are big, tall, terrible *
* Awesome, scary, wonderful giants *
* In the sky
[cheers and applause]
- * Careful the spell you cast *
* Not just on children
* Sometimes a spell may last
all: * Past what you can see
* And turn against you
- * Careful the tale you tell
* That is the spell
* Children will listen
all: * Though it's fearful, though it's deep *
* Though it's dark and though you may lose the path *
* Though you may encounter wolves *
[overlapping verses]
* You can't just act, you have to think *
* There are always wolves, there are always spells *
* There are always beans or a giant dwells *
* Into the woods each time you go *
* There's more to learn of what you know *
* Into the woods but not too slow *
* Into the woods, it's nearing midnight *
* Into the woods to mind the wolf *
* To heed the witch, to honor the giant *
* To mind, to heed, to find, to think *
* To teach, to join
* To go to the festival
* Into the woods
then out of the woods *
* And happy ever after
- * I wish
[cheers and applause]
[jaunty piano music]
- * Yo, I know just where to go *
* There's a little beach named Playa Rincón *
* With no roads
* You need a rowboat
* Or motorbike
* To reach this beach
* It's just a stone's throw
* From home
* My folks' home
* Before I was born
* Before they passed on
* And left me on my own in New York *
* With the grocery store
* They would talk about home, I listened closely for *
* The way they whispered to each other *
* 'Bout the warmer winter weather *
* Inseparable, they even got sick together *
* They never got better
* Passed away that December
* And left me with these memories *
* Like dying embers from a dream I can't remember *
* Ever since then
* It's like another day
* Deeper in debt with different dilemmas *
* The bodega's a mess
* I'll be seeing less of Vanessa *
* Abuela, I don't know
* If I can keep it together
[cheers and applause]
[piano music]
*
- * Puppy dogs with droopy faces *
* Unicorns with dancing mice *
* Sunrise in wide open spaces
* Disney World, I'll go there twice *
* Butterflies and picnic lunches *
* Bunches of chrysanthemums
* Lollipops and pillow fights
* And Christmas Eve, sugarplums *
* String quartets and Chia Pets *
* And afternoon banana splits
* Angels watching as I sleep *
* And Liberace's greatest hits *
* Have got me pulled in a new direction *
* If they keep insisting, I'll stop resisting *
* Just watch me pulled in a new direction *
* I should stay in the dark, not obey every spark *
* But the boy has a bite better far than his bark *
* And you bet I'll bite too
* Do what's truly taboo
* As I'm pulled in a new
* Direction
*
[cheers and applause]
- Our school is really small.
We have a school of, I think, 94 students,
grades 6 through 12,
and our cast consists
of 16 high schoolers and 12 middle schoolers.
For us being such a small school,
to win the award of Outstanding Musical
is just such a dream
that we worked so hard for,
and I'm so proud of our little school.
I always call it "The Little School That Could."
- * It takes a woman all powdered and pink *
* To joyously clean out the drain in the sink *
* And it takes an angel with long golden lashes *
* And soft Dresden fingers
* For dumping the ashes
* Yes, it takes a woman
* A dainty woman
* A sweetheart, a mistress, a wife *
* Oh yes, it takes a woman
* A fragile woman
* To bring you the sweet things in life *
*
- * Ermengarde, stop sniveling
* Don't cry on the valises
* We haven't missed the train yet, thank the Lord *
* Lovely, you're improving now
* Get all 11 pieces
* We're seven minutes late
* All aboard
all: * All aboard
* All aboard, all aboard
* Put on your Sunday clothes
* There's lots of world out there *
* Put on your silk cravat and patent shoes *
* Where I can feel adventure *
* In the evening air
* To town we'll trot to a smoky spot *
* Where the girls are hot as a fuse *
- * Whoo
all: * Put on your high silk hat *
* And at the turned-up cuff
* We'll wear a handmade gray suede buttoned glove *
* We'll join the Astors at Tony Pastor's *
* This I'm positive of
* That we won't come home
* No, we won't come home
* Until we fall in love
[cheers and applause]
*
- * And sure, some folks'll say *
* That all of this is hay
* It's just a smoky-eyed romantic notion *
* So I'll feel okay
* But they cannot deny
* No matter how they try
* That it's a fact
* We're all connected
* From the grass up to the sky
* I have my memories
* To do with as I please
* I know I always can recall
* That starry perfect night in fall *
* When you stood underneath this tree *
* And promised you would always be *
* With
* Me
* I trust you're here
* With me
*
[cheers and applause]
- * Ever after better get here
* I want love in seconds flat
* No one needs these middle bits *
* Oops, did I do that?
* Cut the villains
* Cut the vamping
* Cut this fairy tale
* Cut the peril and the pitfalls *
* Cut the puppet and the whale
* Cut the monsters, cut the curses *
* Keep the intro, leave the verses *
* And the waiting, the waiting *
* The waiting, the waiting
* The waiting
* Now I know he'll appear
* 'Cause there are rules and there are strictures *
* It won't be long now
* I guarantee
* I know it's today
[cheers and applause]
- * Whatever happened to my show *
* I was a hit now I don't know *
* I'm with a bunch of British knights *
* Prancing around in woolly tights *
*I might as well go to the pub
* They've been out searching
* For a shrub
* Out shopping for a bush
* Well, they can kiss my tush
* It seems to me they've really lost the plot *
* Whatever happened to my
* I'll call my agent, damn it
* Whatever happened to my...
Not yours!
[pants] Not yours!
Definitely not yours!
[laughter]
Ugh!
But--
[laughter]
* But my
* Part
[cheers and applause]
all: * At the end of the day
* There's another day dawning
* And the sun in the morning is waiting to rise *
* Like the waves crash on the sand *
* Like a storm that'll break any second *
* There's a hunger in the land
* There's a reckoning still to be reckoned *
* And there's gonna be hell to pay *
* At the end of the day
*
* Lovely ladies waiting for a bite *
* Waiting for the customers who only come at night *
* Lovely ladies ready for the call *
* Standing up or lying down or any way at all *
* Bargain prices up against the wall *
* Master of the house, quick to catch your eye *
* Never was a passerby to pass him by *
* Servant to the poor, butler to the great *
* Comforter, philosopher, and lifelong mate *
* Everybody's boon companion
* Everybody's chaperone
- * But lock up your valises
* Jesus, won't I skin you to the bone *
*
- * If I die
* Let me die
* Let him live
* Bring him home
all: * For the wretched of the Earth *
* There is a flame that never dies *
* Even the darkest night
* Will end and the sun will rise *
* Will you join in our crusade? *
* Who will be strong and stand with me? *
* Somewhere beyond the barricade *
* Is there a world you long to see? *
* Do you hear the people sing?
* Say, do you hear the distant drums *
* It is the future that
* They bring when tomorrow comes *
* Oh
* Tomorrow
* Comes
[cheers and applause]
- Whitefish Bay, ladies and gentlemen,
"Les Misérables."
[cheers and applause]
We have a couple more numbers for you.
This is our sixth year of participating
in the National High School Musical Theatre Awards,
AKA "The Jimmy Awards."
There are 37 programs
this year from across the country
that are each sending one male,
one female representative.
all: * Is anybody waving
- * At me
It's a really,
really, incredible opportunity
that a lot of people know about.
It's a way to get nationally recognized.
* Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone *
I'm singing "Out There" from "Hunchback."
It felt nice, 'cause the song is really applicable--
at least, that Quasi
is trying to leave his bell tower.
He's trying to go meet all these people
on the ground, and for me, it's sort of like I'm--
I'm doing this theater, I'm growing up,
and I want to be out there with all these great artists.
* Out there among the millers
* And the weavers and their wives *
* Through the roofs and gables
* I can see them
*Every day they shout and scold
* And go about their lives
* Heedless of the gift it is to be them *
* If I were in their skin
* I'd treasure every instant
* Out there
* Strolling by the Seine
* Oh, taste the morning out there *
* Like ordinary men
* Who freely walk about there
* Just one day and then
* I swear I'll be content
* With my share
* Won't resent, won't despair *
* Old and bent
* I won't care
* I'll have spent one day
* Out there
*
[cheers and applause]
- I perform
because it's the only thing that makes me feel whole.
It's my way to inspire others
to understand other people's stories,
because, in this society, it's not always easy
to see things from other people's perspectives.
* Silence isn't golden
* Speak up right away
* Bring those surprises to light *
* You know a life built on lies *
* Is just not right
* The longer you wait
* The harder it gets
* To tell them
* The more you pretend
* The more they were right
* To condemn
* Be true to yourself
* You'll have no regrets
* If you believe
* You can announce it
* By decree
* Let loose, tell all, be free *
* If I don't
* I'll really be
* A little bit
* Less than
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat music]
*
- The opportunities that this has given me
are crazy amazing,
like getting to perform on the stage
that you see the Broadway tours perform on.
- People get to come for a night and sit
for three hours in a seat and just share joy
with people who love-- love performing.
*
- Just a great experience to
make the audience feel something.
- The Tommy Awards, for me,
has completely changed my life.
*
all: * 525,600 minutes
* 525,000 moments so dear
* 525,600 minutes
* How do you measure
* Measure a year
* In daylights
* In sunsets
* In midnights, in cups of coffee *
* In inches, in miles
* In laughter and strife
* In 525,600 minutes
* How do you measure
* A year in the life
* How about love
* Measure in love
* Seasons of love
- * 525,600 minutes
- * 525,600 journeys to plan
- * 525,600 minutes
- * How do you measure
* The life of a woman or a man *
- * In truth that she learned
* Or in times that he cried
- * In bridges he burned
* Or the way that she died
all: * It's time now to sing out *
* For the story never ends
* Let's celebrate, remember
* A year in the life of friends *
* Remember the love
- * You got to, you got to remember the love *
all: * Remember the love
- * You know that love is a gift from up above *
all: * Remember the love
- * Measure in love
* Measure, measure your life in love *
all: * Seasons of love
* Seasons of love
- * Measure your life
* Measure your life in love
[cheers and applause]
- Thank you for coming, everybody.
announcer: Broadcast of
Overture's High School Musical Theater Awards
was funded in part by:
Julie and Larry Midtbo
Mary Ellyn and Joe Sensenbrenner
A. Paul Jones Charitable Trust
and Friends of Wisconsin Public Television.