Listening to theatre as a form of magic, a playlist
Despite Broadway’s moniker as the Great White Way, productions are making tangible strides to showcase diverse stories that meld tradition and innovation. May 2019 be the year you over-invest in musicals and understand the weaving of lives when harmonies align, and may it be the year that the spectacle of the Tony Awards comes to represent all swaths of identities.
“It’s All Happening” / Bring It On: The Musical
“They Live in You” / Samuel E. Wright & The Lion King Ensemble / The Lion King
“Let It Sing” / Joshua Henry / Violet
“I Still Believe” / Claire Moore & Lea Salonga / Miss Saigon
“The Money” / Lin-Manuel Miranda / 21 Chump Street: The Musical – EP
“Right This Way” / Bandstand
“Omar Sharif” / Katrina Lenk / The Band’s Visit
“What About Love” / Cynthia Erivo & Jennifer Hudson / The Color Purple
“A House Is Not a Home” / Kristin Chenoweth / Promises, Promises
“First Burn” / Arianna Afsar, Julia Harriman, Lexi Lawson, Rachelle Ann Go, & Shoba Narayan / Hamilton’s Hamildrops
“In My House” / Grace McLean, Phillipa Soo, & Brittain Ashford / Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
“One Second and a Million Miles” / Steven Pasquale & Kelli O’Hara / The Bridges of Madison County
“Blackout” / In the Heights
“Pretty Funny” / Lindsay Mendez / Dogfight
“One Last Time (44 Remix)” / Christopher Jackson, Barack Obama, & Bebe Winans / Hamilton’s Hamildrops
