DREAMS ! Any Dream Will Do JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR !DREAMCOAT 1995-1999 GRADS: I closed my eyes, drew back the curtain To see for certain what I thought I knew Far far away, someone was weeping But the world was sleeping !Any dream will do…. Caroline: In 1995, we were among the 45 young actors in the very first Play Group Theatre production, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. On stage, we were telling a story about following your heart, creating a family, and, most importantly, dreams coming true. It wasn’t long before we understood, we were telling the same story off stage. It has been twenty years. On stage and off, PGT keeps dreaming….

May I return to the beginning The light is dimming, and the dream is too The world and I, we are still waiting Still hesitating !Any dream will do…… ! !A Midsummer Night’s Dream !Helena: Lysander, if you live, good sir, awake. Lysander: (waking) And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake. Transparent Helena! Nature shows art That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart. Where is Demetrius? Oh, how fit a word !Is that vile name to perish on my sword! Helena: Do not say so, Lysander. Say not so. What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though? !Yet Hermia still loves you. Then be content. Lysander: Content with Hermia? No. I do repent The tedious minutes I with her have spent. !Not Hermia but Helena I love. ! ! !Girl of My Dreams STARMITES SPACE PUNK: You are the girl of my dreams, I found the girl of my dreams And I know now I'll never let you go. ! Things growing are not ripe until their season. So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason. And touching now the point of human skill, Reason becomes the marshal to my will And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook !Love’s stories written in love’s richest book. ! !Whenever I Dream A New Brain RHODA: Whenever I dream, I dream I'm not writing something tawdry I write about how I'm a cow, then I become my cousin Audrey Tawdry? Yes it is. Things that I think mean one thing sometimes do sometimes dont The world is a confu-blah blah live in But up there no one understands In my dreams I'm all composed, composing At the keys, symphonies drip from these two hands But when I wake, its gone And then I carry on ------Whenever I dream, whenever I laugh, whenever I spring, whenever I eat, whenever I spring, whenever I fart, whenever I spring, whenever I dream, whenever I !dream, whenever I dream, Whenever aye-yaye-yaye-yaye-yah ! Helena: Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is ’t not enough, is ’t not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency? Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do, !In such disdainful manner me to woo. ! !Me BEAUTY AND THE BEAST GASTON: You've been dreaming, just one dream Nearly all your life Hoping, scheming, just one theme: Will you be a wife? Will you be some he-man's property? Good news! That he-man's me! This equation, girl plus man Doesn't help just you On occasion, women can Have their uses too Mainly to extend the fam'ly tree !Pumpkin, extend with me! ! But fare you well. Perforce I must confess I thought you lord of more true gentleness. Oh, that a lady of one man refused !Should of another therefore be abused! Lysander: She sees not Hermia.—Hermia, sleep thou there. ! ! !Moments in the Woods INTO THE WOODS 2005 BAKER’S WIFE: Wake up! Stop dreaming. Stop prancing about the woods. It's not beseeming. What is it about the woods?

Back to life, back to sense, Back to child, back to husband, You can't live in the woods. There are vows, there are ties, There are needs, there are standards, There are shouldn'ts and shoulds.

Why not both instead? There's the answer, if you're clever: Have a child for warmth, And a Baker for bread, And a Prince for whatever- Never! !It's these woods. ! Lysander: ——- Of all be hated, but the most of me.— And all my powers, address your love and might !To honor Helen and to be her knight. Hermia: (waking) Help me, Lysander, help me! Do thy best To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast. Ay me, for pity! What a dream was here. !Lysander, look how I do quake with fear. ! ! !Hold On SECRET GARDEN MARTHA: When you feel your heart is poundin', Fear a devil's at your door. There's no place to hide- You're frozen to the floor! What you do then is you force yourself To wake up, and you say: "It's this dream, not me, that's bound to go away."

Hold on, Hold on, the night will soon be by. Hold on, Until there's nothing left to try. Child, hold on, There's angels on their way! Hold on and hear them say, !"Child, oh child!" ! ! Hermia: Methought a serpent eat my heart away, And you sat smiling at his cruel pray. Lysander!—What, removed?—Lysander, lord!— Who knows how high those mountains climb What, out of hearing, gone? Who knows how deep those rivers go No sound, no word?— ….Who knows how wrong a dream can go Alack, where are you? Speak, an if you hear. Ti Moune !Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear. ! ! !Ti Moune ONCE ON THIS ISLAND 1998 MAMA EURALIE: I won't be there to guide your way To braid your hair or dry your tears As we have done these many years Ti Moune, Ti Moune

What you are, we made you What we gave, you took Now you run without !One backward look ! ! No? Then I well perceive you all not nigh. Either death or you I’ll find immediately. (Hermia cross DR, looking for Lysander. Helena re-enter DL, pursued by Lysander, Hermia !turns and looks in their direction…..) ! !Straight to Heaven ZANNA DON’T TANK Hey you standing all alone and staring at the guy across that floor, I could see him smiling back at you so tell me what are you waiting for? Hey you sitting by yourself I know exactly what you're thinking of Well, tonight's the night that dreams come true so go on and fall in love Yeah girls grab a guy, guys grab a girl this song is for lovers all around the world Come on! Everybody and join the crowd, Take a ride on the wind and come dance on a cloud. Because tonight we're gonna go- straight to heaven! !Come on and help me out you guys! Zanna Cast Love is going, straight to my heart, Love is going, straight to my soul, Love is going, straight to my mind, Love is going, straight out of control Love is going straight to my blood And straight to my brain And straight to my bones I think I'm going insane !Because tonight we're gonna go- straight to heaven! ! ! !Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat GUYS AND DOLLS NICELY NICELY: I dreamed last night I got on the boat to heaven And by some chance I had brought my dice along And there I stood And I hollered "Someone fade me" But the passengers, they knew right from wrong. For the people all said sit down, sit down, you're rockin' the boat People all said sit down Sit down you're rockin' the boat. And the devil will drag you under By the sharp lapel of your checkered coat, Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down, Sit down you're rockin' the boat.

I sailed away on that little boat to heaven And by some chance found a bottle in my fist And there I stood, Nicely passin' out the whisky But the passengers were bound to resisist For the people all said beware You're on a heavenly trip People all said beware Beware, you'll scuttle the ship. And the devil will drag you under By the fancy tie 'round your wicked throat Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down !Sit down, you're rockin' the boat ! Hermia: Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes. Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense. Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found. !Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound ! !Hermia: But why unkindly didst thou leave me so? !Lysander: Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go? !Hermia: What love could press Lysander from my side? Lysander: Lysander’s love, that would not let him bide, Fair Helena, who more engilds the night Than all yon fiery oes and eyes of light. Why seek’st thou me? Could not this make thee know !The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so? !Hermia: You speak not as you think…. ! ! !Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! SEUSSICAL 2005, 2010 ALL: Oh, the thinks you can think Think and wonder and dream-- Far and wide as you dare!

CAT: Oh, the thinks you can think!

ALL: When your thinks have run dry, In the blink of an eye There's another think there! If you open your mind, Oh, the thinks you will find Lining up to get loose! Oh, the thinks you can think

BARITONES AND BASSES: Oh, the thinks you can think!

ALL: Oh, the thinks you can think!

TENORS: Oh, the thinks you can think!

ALL: Oh, the thinks you can think! !When you think about ----- ! Helena: Lo, she is one of this confederacy! …Ay, do. Persever, counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back, Wink each at other, hold the sweet jest up— This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled. But fare ye well. 'Tis partly my own fault, ! !You and I CHESS FLORENCE: I've been a fool to allow Dreams to become Great expectations.

ANATOLY: How can I love you so much Yet make no move?

BOTH: There will be days and nights When I'll want you more than I want to More than I should Oh, how I want you.

You and I We've seen it all Chasing our hearts' desire But we go on pretending Stories like ours !Have happy endings. ! Lysander: Stay, gentle Helena. Hear my excuse. !My love, my life, my soul, fair Helena! !Helena: Oh, excellent! !Hermia: (to LYSANDER) Sweet, do not scorn her so. Lysander: (to HERMIA) Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! Vile thing, let loose !Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent. Hermia: Why are you grown so rude? What change is this, !Sweet love? Lysander: Thy love? Out, tawny Tartar, out! !Out, loathèd medicine! O hated potion, hence! !Hermia: Do you not jest? !Helena: Yes, sooth, and so do you. ! !Lost in the Wilderness CHILDREN OF EDEN CAIN: You follow all the rules You swallow all the stories And every night you wish on a star Dreaming your day will come, trusting in allegories And every morning boy look where you are

Lost in the Wilderness Lost, slowly dying in the wilderness With no chance of living boy, until you confess You're lost in the wilderness

Don't you ever watch the eagle fly to the sun And wonder how he got to be so free If you ever have you know your journey's begun Hey what've we got to lose boy, when already we are Lost in the wilderness

And where we are headed boy, I couldn't guess but Off we go without a warning Running as we hit the ground Where our future lies a-borning Where our hearts are outward bound Till one bright and distant morning We may stop and look around And there in the wilderness !Finally we'll be found! ! Hermia: Why then, you left me—Oh, the gods forbid!— !In earnest, shall I say? Lysander: Ay, by my life, And never did desire to see thee more. Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt. Be certain, nothing truer. 'Tis no jest !That I do hate thee and love Helena. ! !It Wasn’t A Dream STARMITES FULL CAST: It wasn't a dream, it wasn't a dream !It was out of this world, but it wasn't a dream !The Wizard of Oz 2012 Dorothy: But it wasn’t a dream….it was a real place….and you, and you, and you were all there…and most of it was very beautiful….but all the same…all I kept telling people was…

It wasn't a dream, it wasn't a dream !It was magic, but it wasn't a dream. ! ! Hermia: O me! (to HELENA) You juggler! You canker-blossom! You thief of love! What, have you come by night !And stol'n my love’s heart from him? ! ! !Summer Nights GREASE DANNY AND FULL CAST: !Summer dreams – ripped at the seams, but oh those summer niiiights! ! Helena: Fine, i' faith! Have you no modesty, no maiden shame, No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear Impatient answers from my gentle tongue? !Fie, fie! You counterfeit, you puppet, you! Hermia: “Puppet”? Why so?—Ay, that way goes the game. Now I perceive that she hath made compare !Between our statures. How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak. How low am I? I am not yet so low !But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes. Helena: Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me. I evermore did love you, Hermia, Did ever keep your counsels, never wronged you— Save that, in love to Demetrius, I told him of your stealth unto this wood. He followed you, for love I followed him. But he hath chid me hence and threatened me To strike me, spurn me - nay, to kill me too. And now, so you will let me quiet go, To Athens will I bear my folly back And follow you no further. Let me go. ! ! !Legally Blonde LEGALLY BLONDE Elle: (Legally Blonde) Back to the sun, back to the shore. Back to who i was before. Lay on the beach, dream within reach don't stray beyond some girls fight hard, some face the trial, some girls were just meant to smile Emmett: If you can hear, can I just say, how much I want you to stay? Elle: It's not up to me Just let me be !Legally blonde. ! ! !Hermia: Why, get you gone! Who is ’t that hinders you? !Helena: A foolish heart, that I leave here behind. ! ! !Tell Me Why A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE LILY: Now tell me why I still dream about a day, I'm dancing at your wedding. I catch your bride's bouquet, and wave goodbye.

And you my baby boy, You're finally on your way. You'll never see that day. !And, Alfie, nor will I. ! !Lysander: Be not afraid. She shall not harm thee, helena. Helena: I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray. My legs are longer though, to run away.

! !Tonight WEST SIDE STORY FULL CAST: Good night, good night Sleep well and when you dream Dream of me ! !The Dining Room Ruth: Lately, I've been having this recurrent dream. We're giving this perfect party. And I've invited all our favorite people. And our children would be invited too. And they'd all come back from wherever they are....and everyone would get along famously. My husband laughs when I tell him this dream. "Do you realize," he says, "what a party like that would cost? Do you realize what we'd have to pay these days for a party like that?" Well, I know. I know all that. But sometimes I think it might almost be worth it. ! FULL CAST (ctd.): !Tonight ! Hermia: I am amazed and know not what to say.