WHAT ARE WE ABLE TO TOUCH AND HOLD?
Music & Lyrics by Michael Cooper
Copyright 2021, Three Hundred Bags of Rice Music

Sand through my fingers
Falling so fast
Slips through my fingers
As hours pass
If nothing matters
If nothing lasts

What are we able to touch and hold? (x4)

Rain on the windshield
Blurring my view
This road is winding   
Away from you
The lights are fading
The signs, obscured
But I’m not waiting
I’m moving forward

What are we able to touch and hold? (x4)

Reach out, reach out

The destination
Within our reach
But if we never learn
These things we teach?
 
What are we able to touch and hold? (x4)

(Instrumental)

Something matters
Something lasts

What are we able to touch and hold? (x4)

What Are We Able To Touch And Hold?

It Takes A Superior Mother To Make A New World...

"Marguerite" is a new musical based on the heroic, adventurous life of fearless pioneer and Canada's first female saint, Marguerite Bourgeoys. Through soaring song and monologue, this one woman musical recounts Marguerite's death-defying journey to bring liberated women to the New World and help build the city of Montreal.

Featuring book and lyrics by award-winning librettist Anton Dudley, and music by Broadway songwriter Michael Cooper, "Marguerite" (originally titled "Second To Nun") is an inspiring story of inclusion, love, and living life without walls.

Lyrics by Anton Dudley, Music by Michael Cooper.
Copyright 2019, All rights reserved.

Heads Will Roll - performed by Cady Huffman - by Anton Dudley and Michael Cooper

You've never met anyone like her.

"Marguerite" is a new musical based on the heroic, adventurous life of fearless pioneer and Canada's first female saint, Marguerite Bourgeoys. Through soaring song and monologue, this one woman musical recounts Marguerite's death-defying journey to bring liberated women to the New World and help build the city of Montreal.

Featuring book and lyrics by award-winning librettist Anton Dudley, and music by Broadway songwriter Michael Cooper, "Marguerite" is an inspiring story of inclusion, love, and living life without walls.

Lyrics by Anton Dudley, Music by Michael Cooper.
Copyright 2019, All rights reserved.

Music by Michael Cooper
Book and Lyrics by Anton Dudley
Performed by Cady Huffman
Musicians:  John O'Neill, Luke Krafka, and Yan Li
Musical Supervision and Arrangements by Joseph Trefler

Farewell - performed by Cady Huffman - by Anton Dudley and Michael Cooper

Spectre At The Feast - performed by Cady Huffman - by Anton Dudley and Michael Cooper

First Fruits - performed by Cady Huffman - by Anton Dudley and Michael Cooper

Je Suis Canadienne - performed by Cady Huffman - by Anton Dudley and Michael Cooper

Music by Hyeyoung Kim
Lyrics by Michael Cooper
Vocal:  Matt Dengler

"Luna Park" chronicles the partnership of Skip Dundy and Fred Thompson, the true fathers of the modern themed amusement park. A full generation before Walt Disney, they created at Coney Island an attraction called Luna Park, a place designed to allow everyone to forget the pressures of modern industrial society and remember how to play. Interspersed throughout, are the personal accounts and memories of those people who witnessed the lights come on at Luna Park for the very first time on opening night.
All Music, Lyrics, and Sound Recordings Copyright 2012

Hyeyoung Kim's Album

Flying High

Music and Lyrics by Michael Cooper
From "Love, Always" book by Bill Connington
Vocals by Sebastian Arcelus
Piano by Barbara Anselmi
Copyright 2001.

Available for purchase at www.michaelcoopermusicandlyrics.com or www.ContemporaryMusicalTheatre.com

Somewhere (Male Version)

Marguerite

Across The Sea - performed by Cady Huffman - by Anton Dudley and Michael Cooper

MICHAEL COOPER is an Outer Critics Circle and MAC Award nominated songwriter, 2017 Fred Ebb Award finalist, and recipient of the 2005 Jonathan Larson, Daryl Roth, and the TRU Daniel Marshall Multicultural Awards. His lyrics were sung on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in It Shoulda Been You, starring Tyne Daly and directed by David Hyde Pierce (previously seen at the George Street Playhouse and Village Theatre, book by Brian Hargrove, music by Barbara Anselmi). Off-Broadway: City Of (Original Song with Anton Dudley). Regional: Love, Always (Music and Lyrics, with book by Bill Connington) and Second To Nun (Music, with book and lyrics by Anton Dudley) world premieres at Zeiders American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach. BA in Theatre from Williams College; MFA from NYU Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. His musical, Sunfish, which he co-wrote book and lyrics and produced (co-book and music by Hyeyoung Kim), was awarded the top jury honor (Best New American Musical) at the Daegu International Music Theatre Festival, South Korea in June 2013. Sunfish received its regional premiere at Stoneham Theatre, MA (Broadwayworld Award Best Musical) and was showcased at the 2010 ASCAP Workshop with Stephen Schwartz, the 2006 NAMT Festival of New Musicals, the TRU Reading Series, and was a finalist in Alliance Theatre’s Kendeda Playwriting Competition. Other credits include: Rites of Passage, Museum Pieces, The Dome, and News To Me! (Prospect Theater Company); The Strange Affair of Dr. Crippen (Book and Lyrics, music by David Mallamud) Stages Festival, Theatrebuilding Chicago; Lizardman! (Libretto, music by David Mallamud) Audience Favorite, Short Attention Span Festival and recently recorded by The Albany Symphony's Dogs of Desire, The Wild And Whimsical World Of David Mallamud on Broadway Records; Luna Park (Lyrics and additional material, with music and additional material by Hyeyoung Kim, book by Daniel F. Levin), commissioned by SUNY Cortland and selected for Aria Entertainment's From Page To Stage Festival in London. Michael's work has been performed internationally from the stages of 54 Below in NYC, to cabarets in Paris, featured in The York Theatre’s NEO5 Concert series, the ASCAP Johnny Mercer Songwriting Project, 4x15 at The Musical Theater Factory, New York Theatre Barn's New Work Series (Timelines) and NYTB The Choreography Lab, and the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. Member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild. Michael is also the President of Three Hundred Bags of Rice, Inc., a theatrical production company, and serves on the Advisory Board at Astoria Performing Arts Center.

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