Some Enchanted Evening

Yeah.

Well, and here's the thing, because that leads into our number of Some Enchanted Evening.

Again, just iconic, great song here, front-loading the first act with all the great numbers, right? Yeah.

But there is something there's something fantasy like in particularly musicals and a lot of old movies where you compress the time that it takes people to meet, fall in love, have a relationship, etc.

There is the possibility that you or the person next to you could not be here tomorrow.

So there is something that I think, even though this is fantasy, it actually does work in some regard.

Emile points that out when he's about to start singing Some Enchanted Evening.

It's like, we met two weeks ago, but sometimes things like this just happen.

Quote, "Among the songwriters who created standards for the American musical theater, the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein outdid even Irving Berlin in writing songs that assumed the status of secular hymns.

With their semi-operatic melodies and chiseled in stone lyrics that give advice, preach optimism, and impart adult wisdom, songs like Some Enchanted Evening, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin', and You'll Never Walk Alone have become part of the bedrock of American middle class culture, but their power of positive thinking sentiments have also made them synonymous in some people's minds with a drippy father knows best squareness.

A Grand Night for Singing is a studious attempt to revise that goody-goody image by minimizing it.

Conspicuously absent are inspirational war horses like The Sound of Music, Climb Every Mountain, and You'll Never Walk Alone.

Missing too are the declamatory love ballads People Will Say We're in Love, No Other Love, and Younger Than Springtime.

Lesson songs like My Favorite Things, Getting to Know You, and I Whistle a Happy Tune are excluded, and when Some Enchanted Evening, that most formal of Rodgers and Hammerstein ballads, rings down the first act, it is performed in a light, breezy arrangement for five intertwining voices.

Originally a cabaret show at Rainbow and Stars, A Grand Night for Singing has been expanded into a smooth two-hour entertainment in which five singers run through three dozen Rodgers and Hammerstein songs.

Four of the revue's original performers, Victoria Clark, Jason Gray, Martin Vidnovic, and Lynn Wintersteller, have returned for the Broadway production.

So you can talk about certain stories that have come from the parents or children.

So in case there are certain milestones, you can talk about it, certain songs that they're familiar with, even items, uh, that they wear, to make them feel comfortable.

Because to them, this is a totally different environment that they're going into, so you want them to feel comfortable and at home straightaway, yes?

What is important-

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the SIA one, and she sang.

And of course, for residents of that vintage, you can never go wrong with Tan Li Ching songs.

Mm.

Sure.

Remember when we did the greatest love songs in musical theatre, Some Enchanted Evening, I think was up, wasn't my top two, I think, because it's just so beautiful and powerful.

The music and everything, it is beautiful.

And I would, I would definitely know the music more than I would know the pop.

This is another one.

It's a...

What is with me and the golden oldies? I just love Some Enchanted Evening and Younger Than Springtime.

I think they're beautiful love songs.