The theme for this week’s Dress Circle (3/16 7:00 p.m.) came about as we were researching ideas for future programs. We noticed that almost all musicals feature songs where someone is leaving, telling someone else to leave, hinting someone else should leave, or is caught between leaving and staying. We came up with a list long enough to do several programs, so we thought we’d start this week with songs “Saying Goodbye or Not.”
We run the gamut from “Say Goodbye” and “So Long Dearie” to “Don’t like Goodbyes” and how it’s “Hard to say Goodbye.”
We’re even throwing in two nautical goodbyes as we’re wished a “Bon Voyage” from “Anything Goes” and “Candide.”
With songs from a variety of musicals, well-known and lesser so, like “The Sound of Music,” “Damn Yankees,” “Goodbye Mr. Chips,” “La Cava,” “Hello, Dolly!”, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” and “She Loves Me,” you may just find out why “parting is such sweet sorrow” or not.
