New York City Center 2024/2025 Season:
Annual Gala Presentation
RAGTIME - Oct 30 – Nov 10, 2024
RAGTIME is a sweeping, powerful musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally that follows three fictional families in pursuit of the American Dream at the turn of the 20th century.
This gala production is led by Tony-nominated Encores! Artistic Director Lear deBessonet and features Joshua Henry (Coalhouse Walker Jr.), Caissie Levy (Mother), and Brandon Uranowitz (Tateh).
Encores!
URINETOWN - Feb 5 – 16, 2025
In this side-splitting satire directed by Teddy Bergman (KPOP), a young hero fights to create change in a dystopian world where water is scarce and “Hope” is even scarcer. This three-time Tony-winning musical by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis breaks the fourth wall to examine humanity’s darkest dilemmas, all while being “audacious and exhilarating” (The New York Times).
LOVE LIFE - Mar 26 – 30, 2025
LOVE LIFE the only collaboration between Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner, depicts a love story that takes place over 200 years of American history, through the eyes of a family who never ages. This rarely staged production directed by Tony winner Victoria Clark (KIMBERLY AKIMBO) is considered by some to be the first concept musical, an inspiration for musical theater favorites such as CABARET, CHICAGO, and COMPANY.
THE WILD PARTY - Apr 30 – May 11, 2025
Directed by Saheem Ali (FAT HAM), THE WILD PARTY is a jazz-age tragedy about a gin-soaked party. What happens when a night of debauchery leads to a morning of sobering truths? Michael John LaChiusa (THE GARDENS OF ANUNCIA) and George C. Wolfe (JELLY’S LAST JAM) bring Joseph Moncure March’s notorious narrative poem to life in their “dangerous, seedy, fantastic” (The Observer) musical adaptation.
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Elsa BPD coded lyrics
(this includes the musical)
"Cause I can't show you
I'm not as cold as I seem
There are things you cannot know
And it's dangerous to dream"
"I wish I could tell the truth
Show you who's behind the door
I wish you knew what all this
Pantomine and pageantry was for"
"It's dangerous to make choices of my own
Dangerous to even have that thought
I am dangerous just standing here
For everyone to see
If I let go of rules
Who knows how dangerous I'd be"
"And could I open up that door?
And finally see you face to face
I guess a queen can change the rules
But not the reasons they're in place"
"All this pain,
All this fear began because of me
Is the thing they see
The thing I have to be?
A monster, were they right?
Has the dark in me finally come to light?
Am I a monster full of rage?
Nowhere to go but on a rampage"
"Do I keep on running?
How far do I have to go?
And would that take the storm away?
Or only make it grow?
I'm making my world colder
How long can it survive?
Is everyone in danger as long as I'm alive?"
"Bringing destruction to the stage
Caught in a war I never meant to wage
Do I kill the monster?"
"A kingdom of isolation
And it looks like I'm the queen
The wind is howling
Like this swirling storm inside
Couldn't keep it in, heaven knows I tried"
"Conceal, don't feel, don't let them know
Well, now they know, let it go"
"You mean well, but leave me be
Yes I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Just stay away and you'll be safe from me"
"Standing frozen in this life I've chosen
Please don't find me
The past is all behind me
Leave me in the snow, let me go"
"But it all turns to chaos with people I love
And with how much I care
Please don't remind me to feel
Believe me, the danger is real"
"You don't know the things I can do
Keep your distance because I can't lose you"
"Don't you see I'm a storm?
And you make it worse
I would fix it but I don't know how"
"As much as I wish I could open that door
If you loved yourself the way I do
Then you'd see why I can't lose you"
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With You (Duet Version)
With You (Duet Version)
[MOLLY:]
I woke up this morning dreaming
That you were here still by my side
And it hit me in the cold dark day
That we never got to say goodbye
Every place we ever walked and
Everywhere we talked, I miss you
You never leave my mind
So much love of you is left behind
[MOLLY:]
You took my days with you
Took my nights with you[SAM:]
Those unfinished conversations
We used to have still speak to…
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closed for @ncghtshifts. / levi's own minimalism serves him here. he stands at cassie's door with naught but a backpack and one box of miscellany, nervous for reasons now well within his ken. they had escaped him the last time he and cassie had really existed in proximity, but time and reflection have eroded that careful ignorance, and now levi understands himself as a man passively in love. that passivity came with distance. levi doubts it will survive this renewed contact.
he feels awkward about the box, but the alternative is a storage unit he and his bank account can't quite justify. he has little enough that this will, depending on layout, probably fit at the base of cassie's couch, or in some closet somewhere. can't be helped. or it could, maybe, but only pointlessly.
he shifts the box around so he can free his hands to knock, back twinging with the movement.
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@starbrght // continued from here
He didn’t want to admit it, but it was bothering him. She always knew just what to do to get under his skin and he both hated it and...well, secretly a part of him enjoyed the challenge. “Yes,” he hissed, reaching out to gently grip her wrist to stop her from running from him. The last thing he needed was to lose her in the crowd. “I’m trying to protect you, and yet you constantly fight me. At some point, there’s going to be consequences to your actions.”
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