Like all months, April is a month of many celebrations. We’ve already looked at shows that opened in 1965 in order to celebrate National 8-Track Tape Day – We are fully committed to our calendar art, and on this week’s Dress Circle (4/26 7:00 p.m.), we’ll be looking at something we think everyone needs right now: Songs of hope from the musicals as April is the National Month of Hope.
We looked at the topic in two ways: Songs with hope in the title and songs that impart hope in some way. We’ve decided for the first since most of the fourteen songs we’ve chosen do impart hope in some way.
We found that this week’s program relies heavily on a majority of musicals that will be unfamiliar to most listeners. We do have songs from “Annie Get Your Gun,” “Grease,” and Disney’s “Hercules,” but our hope songs also took us overseas to musicals that played in London.
With this in mind, you’ll hear songs offering hopeful travel (“By Jeeves”), “Tall Hope” (“Wildcat”), and just plain hope (“Zorro” and a song by Jason Robert Brown). Oh, and we’ve included “The Song of Hope” from the “Lord of the Rings” musical and a “Dance of Hope” from Torvill and Dean’s “Fire and Ice.”
On the flip side, we’ll be hopelessly devoted and witness the moment “When Hope Goes.”
All in all, we’re “Wishin’ and Hopin’” that our “High Hopes” will give you another hour of enjoyable performances.
