Curtain Up: New Musical Theater Songs by Berklee/BCAB Students

Tonight's songs are winners of the Curtain Up Musical Theatre Songwriting Contest

Tonight's songs are winners of the Curtain Up Musical Theatre Songwriting Contest
All orch have pleted CW-257 Musical Theater Arranging and Orchestration

 

* denotes songs written in SW-345 Musical Theater Writing

** denotes songs written in SW-445 Musical Theater Writing 2

1 denotes songs written in PW-468 Writing the Film Musical

11 denotes songs written in SW-499 Directed Study in Musical Theater Writing

1. “Why Don’t You Save Me?"**
from UNITED STATE OF ANESTHESIA
Book and Lyrics by Rae Forbes, Music by Justin Gates ‘16
Orchestrated by Jacklyn Riha
SOLOISTS: Bengisu Onal, Nick Preziosi, Ben Romanelli;
ENSEMBLE: Ernest Deriabin, Deniz Demirkurt, Tamara Jokic, Krystina Lyons, Jocelyn Wong

2. “Every Little Girl’s Dream”*

Lyrics by Ines Gindraux, Music by Stephanie Carlin
Orchestrated by Louis Rabaso

SOLOIST: Garianna Geiselman

3. “KL (Kuala Lumpur)”

Lyrics and Music by Lyanne Low

Orchestration and Vocal Arrangement by Nicolas Emden

SOLOISTS: Jocelyn Wong, Jamilah Abu Bakar

ENSEMBLE: Freddy Au Yeung, Yuen Loong Chung, Shannon Ignatius, Beili “Nyx” Liang

4. “I'm Better For It”

from DREAMSCAPE, Book, Lyrics and Music by Claude Garoute
Orchestrated by Sandy Yueh Yun Chen

LANCE: Ben Romanelli, JANE: Rae Forbes

5. “Fight Back"**

from SAMSON, Book, Lyrics and Music by Michael Hazani ‘10
Orchestrated by Joaquin Lichtle Prieto

SAMSON: Atileo Tedoldi, FRIEND: Nick Preziosi

ANCIENT ISRAELITES: Paola Arcieri, Freddy Au Yeung, Ernest Deriabin, William Eastland, Jasmine Holland,
Jeffery Jauch, Grace Stephenson, Ajda Stina Turek

6. “Sex Ed"t

from CATHOLIC GUILT, Book and Lyrics by Rachel O’Brien & Matt Thaler
Music by Esin Aydingoz

Orchestrated by Joey Epstein

Father Saul: lan M. Mazey; Chastity: Krystina Lyons; Schoolgirls: Lucy Aiken, Rhys Conklin, Miyako Tsubota,
Allyson Umoru

7. “Leave It Alone"*

Lyrics by Austin Welker, Music by David Fernandes
Orchestrated by Alan Hsiao

Grace Stephenson