Song lists from recent seasons
June 13, 2009
"Stage, Screen & Song"
...a fun and lively selection of songs from musical theater, movies and classic pop
Show People from the musical “Curtains”
Applause! from the musical “Applause”
Rhythm of Life from the musical “Sweet Charity”
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
Ain’t Misbehavin’ from the musical “Ain’t Misbehavin’”
Syncopated Clock
Transylvania Mania from the movie “Young Frankenstein”
Silhouettes
River Deep, Mountain High
I Will Always Love You
Everything Old is New Again
Mississippi Mud
Thanks a Lot, but No Thanks from the movie “It’s Always Fair Weather”
Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat from the musical “Guys and Dolls”
What is this Feeling? from the musical “Wicked”
Into the West from the movie “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”
She’s Got a Way
It Had Better be Tonight from the movie “The Pink Panther”
American Anthem
Will it Go Round In Circles
Friends in Low Places
Little Shop of Horrors from the stage show “Little Shop of Horrors”
Goodbye! from the movie and musical “The Producers”
December 13, 2009
"Let's Have a Christmas Celebration!"
...fun and contemporary arrangements of seasonal songs, with toe-tapping tunes, ballads and humor
Let’s Have a Christmas Celebration
Hear the Winter Wind
Christmas à la Fa La La
Calypso Lullaby
Winter Moon
I Saw Three Ships: A Celtic Christmas Celebration, based upon I Saw Three Ships and Sussex Carol
Christmas is Coming
I Need a Silent Night
Jamaican Noel
Mary, Mary Had-a But One Child
I’d Rather Have my Baby Here for Christmas
Winter Beautiful
¡Cantar Allegria! (Sing Joy!)
Yuletide Rhythm
What a Wonderful Child
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
It’s the Thought that Counts
Holiday Lament
A Family Christmas Spectacular, incorporating Over the River And Through The Woods, Up On The House-Top, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, Winter and Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Beboppin’ Santa Claus
Step Into Christmas
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
I've Got the Music in Me
words and music by Bias Boshell
arranged by Kirby Shaw
Man in the Mirror
recorded by Michael Jackson
words and music by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett
arranged by Ed Lojeski
The Way You Make Me Feel
written and composed by Michael Jackson
arranged by Alan Billingsley
I've Been Everywhere
words and music by Geoff Mack
arranged by Jay Althouse
Guys & Dolls Medley
incorporating Luck be a Lady, Fugue for Tinhorns, and Adelaide's Lament
music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
arranged by Mac Huff
Gone Too Soon
words by Buz Kohan
music by Larry Grossman
"Prelude" by Marty Paich
arranged by Jay Althouse
What the World Needs Now
words by Hal David
music by Burt Bacharach
arranged by Jay Rouse
This Will Be (an Everlasting Love)
words and music by Marvin Yancy and Chuck Jackson
arranged by Greg Gilpin
A Star-Spangled Celebration!
incorporating This is My Country,
America the Beautiful, and
My Country, 'Tis of Thee
arranged by Greg Gilpin
Pocketful of Sunshine
recorded by Natasha Bedingfield
words and music by Natasha Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois and John Shanks
arranged by Alan Billingsley
Manly Men's Chorus Extravaganza
by Kurt Knecht
We're The Men
words and music by Jay Althouse
Theme from Spider Man
recorded by Michael Bublé
written by Bob Harris and
Paul Francis Webster
arranged by Kirby Shaw
June 12, 2010
"Play it Again: Revivals and Remembrances"
...a celebration of musical revivals and songs from well-loved artists "gone too soon"
Old Devil Moon
From the musical and movie
"Finian's Rainbow"
music by Burton Lane
words by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
arranged by Mac Huff
Aquarius & Let the Sunshine In
from the musical "Hair"
music by Galt MacDermot
words by James Rado and Gerome Ragni
arranged by Greg Gilpin
Magic To Do
from the musical "Pippin"
music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
arranged by Alan Billingsley
You Took Advantage of Me
featured in the motion picture "Fame"
words by Lorenz Hart
music by Richard Rogers
arranged by Greg Gilpin
Make Them Hear You
from the musical "Ragtime"
music by Stephen Flaherty
lyric by Lynn Ahrens
arranged by Jeff Funk
Don't Stop Believing
as performed by the cast of "Glee"
words and music by Jonathan Cain,
Neal Schon, and Steve Perry
arranged by Alan Billingsley
Hallelujah
from the motion picture "Shrek"
words and music by Leonard Cohen
arranged by Roger Emerson
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
lyric and revised music by George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, and Luigi Creatore
arranged by Alan Billingsley
Eye of the Tiger
words and music by Frank Sullivan and Jim Peterik
arranged by Kirby Shaw
One
from the musical "A Chorus Line"
music by Marvin Hamlisch
lyrics by Edward Kleban
arranged by Anita Kerr
We are the World
words and music by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie
arranged by Roger Emerson
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