Dancing Through Life

And learn to live the unexamined life.

Dancing through life, skimming the surface.

Gliding where turf is smooth.

Life's more painless for the brainless.

Why think too hard when it's so soothing? Dancing through life, mindless and careless.

When you can slough it off as I do.

Nothing matters but knowing nothing matters.

It's just life, so keep dancing through.

And I loved all the characters and all the music.

I think my favorite song from the first one was Dancing Through Life or Popular.

My favorite from the second one was definitely For Good and There's No Place Like Home.

But yeah, I'm a big Wicked Wizard of Oz stan.

And the incredible choreography in the musical and the film, just outstanding.

And I think the fact that every number nods to either rigidity or that freedom, like this being the most iconic move in the whole of Dancing Through Life.

And it's a scarecrow.

It's absolutely beautifully thought of.

Oh, that's a very, very good question.

I think there was one time on Wicked, and it was working with Jonathan Bailey, and he'd just done Dancing Through Life, and I hadn't seen him do it.

I'd seen him do it in rehearsals, but he did it, and he absolutely smashed it.

And he stepped off, and I was one of the first people to see him, because I'd been obviously eyes on him and stuff like that, and I just went to him, "That was amazing." And he looked at me and was like, "Really?" He actually couldn't believe that I'd...

Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, and Josh Gad announced that news, so it's also some appropriate, you know, Frozen synergy for the weekend.

Um, so that was what she did through the crowd, and then, uh, one of the Savannah Bananas players who's out on the field started singing Dancing Through Life, which is the big number for Fiyero in Wicked, played by Jonathan Bailey.

Mm-hmm.

And so he does Dancing, Dancing Through Life as Kristen makes her way down to the field, and then they come together for, uh, I Had the Time of My Life from Dirty Dancing, complete with the big lift at the end, although-

Okay

... to be fully fair, they had a, a second Savannah Banana hold up her legs, so it wasn't like the full baby lift where she's just like floating in air.

A Broadway veteran adding to the fun.

Yes, and he sang Dancing Through Life from Wicked*.

I mean, how fitting is that?

It's just so clever.