Director’s Note

Welcome to Forte’s first full concert of Broadway music! We are delighted to present these beautiful and exciting choral arrangements to you this weekend. You will notice that the short songs in the medleys are not in the order that they would appear in the musical theatre productions. We aren’t doing mini musical here, but instead, we are presenting these wonderful medleys hat have been published for choirs.

There are a few special features we’d like to mention, so you can keep an eye out for them in the show:

- Our talented choreographer, Julie Adams Howald, has taught forte! traditional Polynesian dance moves in the medley for Once On This Island. Each gesture, shape of the hand, and body posture portrays a word or emotion.

-Our other talented choreographer, Christine Riesenweber, has chosen to use long dowel sticks for creative choreography and stunts in the medley from Aladdin.

-Many choir members worked on the Cockney dialect, studying the linguistics behnid it, in order to perform “Wouldn’t I Be Loverly” and Get Me to Church on Time”, in the medley for My Fair Lady.

-We are so happy that the TCYC Children’s Choir is performing with us again! (“Any Dream Will Do”)

-This weekend is a special moment, as it is the first time we’ve invited forte! alumni to come back and sing in the show. We have been fortunate to have fort! alumni assist backstage with props, lighting, sound, children’s choir and even come on stage as good ‘ole St. Nick, or sing as an opening act. But this weekend they are singing a lovely song, “ Children Will Listen” right in our show.

Program

• There’s No Business Like Show Business

• Put On a Happy Face

• Any Dream Will Do

• Give My Regards to Broadway

• Close Every Door

• My Fair Lady (Choral Medley: I Could Have Danced All Night, On the Street Where You Live, Wouldn’t it be Loverly, I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face, Get Me to the Church on Time)

• Once On this Island (Choral Medley: We Dance, Waiting for Life, Rain, Forever Yours, Mama Will Provide, The Human Heart)

• Children Will Listen

• Aladdin (Choral Highlights: Overture, Arabian Nights, One Jump Ahead, A Whole New World, Proud of Your Boy, A Million Miles Away, Somebody’s Got Your Back, Prince Ali, Friend Like Me)

Cast Members

Michelle Adams, Paetyn Beus, Ashton Johnson, Jessica Rowe, Kaitlyn Tippets, Pyper Gill, Ashlyn Jeppson, Emily Ford, Abby Henry, Caitlyn Kreutz, Sandy Montgomery, Alena Sintay, Karissa Wallace, Emma Baugh, Courtney Budge, Charlyn Johnson, Cole Brooks, Jonas Childers, Aaron-Michael Sintay, Kelton Brooks, Jayden Jeppson, Gave Larson, Justin Naef.