"Stop" is the 3rd number in my new musical titled Life Happens. It is a very intense confrontational song between Carly and her alcoholic mother, Kathleen. The number takes place in Scene 3 when Carly returns home and begins immediately packing to leave California for Chicago, where she will begin living for a while with her father, Harland. This news infuriates Kathleen, who is unwilling to accept not only Carly's decision to leave, but Carly's complaints about how Kathleen has always treated her. It's a very bad relationship because of Kathleen's alcoholism, which started soon after Harland left the marriage, when Carly was still a little girl. Kathleen has abused Carly for years, mostly verbally/emotionally/psychologically, but also sometimes even physically. It's a very harsh/edgy song that lays out the kind of dynamic and pain felt by both women over the course of their relationship. Throughout the song, Kathleen is drunk.

𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒 - "𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩"

𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘:
STOP PRETENDING
YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE WHO BLEEDS, MOTHER. 
THAT ALL YOUR NEEDS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MINE,
MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYONE ELSE’S.
STOP PRETENDING THAT YOU CARE.
‘CAUSE YOU DON’T REALLY CARE FOR ME. NO.
YOU DON’T CARE FOR ME. (K: YOU DON’T CARE FOR ME)
 
𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐍:
STOP COMPLAINING. 
‘CAUSE YOU DON’T KNOW THE PAIN I FEEL.
CAN’T SEE WHAT’S REAL BEYOND 
THE LITTLE WORLD THAT YOU LIVE IN.
ONLY SEE WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE.
STOP PRETENDING THAT YOU CARE.
‘CAUSE YOU DON’T REALLY CARE FOR ME. NO 
YOU DON’T CARE FOR ME. (C: YOU DON’T CARE FOR ME)

𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘:
EVERYTHING YOU SAY TO ME
IS JUST ANOTHER LIE
EVERYTHING YOU DID TO ME
BECAME A PART OF ME.

𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐍:
DON'T PREACH TO ME
DON'T LECTURE ME
I GAVE MY LIFE AWAY FOR YOU

𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐘 / 𝐊𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐍:
I CAN'T JUST LEAVE THE PAST BEHIND
EVERY TEAR,
ALL THE FEAR,
YEAR AFTER YEAR,
I NEVER WILL FORGET
SO, PLEASE, JUST. . .

STOP EXPLAINING WHY YOUR WORLD
IS ALWAYS SOMEHOW FALLING APART, 
WHY ALL THE MIND-GAMES YOU PLAY EVERYDAY ARE JUSTIFIED,
WHY ALL YOUR PROBLEMS ARE ALWAYS BECAUSE ME.
STOP PRETENDING THAT YOU CARE.
‘CAUSE YOU DON’T REALLY CARE FOR ME. NO.
YOU DON’T CARE FOR ME. YOU DON’T CARE FOR ME.

STOP PRETENDING. STOP PRETENDING. 
STOP PRETENDING. STOP PRETENDING. 
STOP PRETENDING, PLEASE. ‘CAUSE YOU DON’T LOVE ME.

Life Happens

Stop

"What Love Is" is the 4th number in my new musical titled Life Happens. It is a tender, romantic, love song duet sung by Carly's father (Harland) and his live-in love (Beryl). Both Harland and Beryl are in their mid-late 40s and found each other late in life, but are very much in love and happy. The song happens after Harland and Carly have arrived in Chicago, where Carly is going to now be living for a while with her father so she can sort of re-group and emotionally/mentally recover (and relax) after being released from the hospital. This turn of events, of course, will be a disruption to the life/plans of Harland & Beryl. The song starts as Harland begins apologizing to Beryl for how he has basically upended all of their plans for the near future. But Beryl reassures Harland, telling him that she understands and that it is thru such events that people learn "what love is." It is a song in which both Harland & Beryl affirm their love to each other.

 Both Harland and Beryl are in their mid-late 40s and found each other late in life, but are very much in love and happy. The song happens after Harland and Carly have arrived in Chicago, where Carly is going to now be living for a while with her father so she can sort of re-group and emotionally/mentally recover (and relax) after being released from the hospital. This turn of events, of course, will be a disruption to the life/plans of Harland & Beryl. The song starts as Harland begins apologizing to Beryl for how he has basically upended all of their plans for the near future. But Beryl reassures Harland, telling him that she understands and that it is thru such events that people learn "what love is." It is a song in which both Harland & Beryl affirm their love to each other.

𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒 - "𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐈𝐬"

𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐋:
YOU DON’T HAVE TO SAY TO ME YOU’RE SORRY.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY. I’M NOT ANGRY WITH YOU.
I UNDERSTAND THAT LIFE CAN SOMETIMES 
TAKE AN UNEXPECTED TURN. 
BUT THAT’S HOW WE LEARN WHAT LOVE IS.

𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃:
YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO UNDERSTAND
SO MUCH MORE THAN ME.
LIKE WHEN YOU SEE THE GOOD IN THINGS
THAT NO ONE ELSE CAN SEE.
I’M JUST A MAN, WHO OFTEN
DOESN’T KNOW QUITE WHAT TO DO.
BUT I’LL LEARN FROM YOU WHAT LOVE IS.

𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐋:
I DON’T NEED FOR YOU TO BE A MODERN MOVIE ROMEO.

𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃:
I DON’T NEED MAGAZINE LOOKS OR EXOTIC BEAUTY.

𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐋/𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃:
IF YOU’RE NOT PERFECT, THAT’S FINE WITH ME.
I JUST WANT SOMEONE LIKE YOU,
WHO KNOWS ME, AND WANTS ME, AND NEEDS ME.
SOMEONE I CAN TALK TO.

𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃:
YOU’LL NEVER HAVE TO WONDER
IF YOU’RE THE ONE FOR ME.

𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐋:
YOU’LL NEVER HAVE A REASON
TO FEEL THE SLIGHTEST HINT OF JEALOUSY 

𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐋/𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃:
I UNDERSTAND THE ROAD WE’RE ON
IS PAVED WITH JOYS AND TEARS.

𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐋: BUT THROUGH ALL THE YEARS 
            𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃: THROUGH ALL THE YEARS

𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐋: WE’LL FIND OUR WAY 
            𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃:WE’LL FIND OUR WAY

𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐋/𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃:
 AND LEARN WHAT LOVE IS.

What Love Is

Richard is forced to give up his crown in favor of Henry Bolingbroke.

The Renunciation

Tick tock goes the clock
Life's a crazy busy block
Running fast can't stop
Chasing dreams non-stop

Tick Tock Life

My crush on William Katt began decades ago with the tumbling blonde spirals of Tommy Ross in Carrie, the close-cropped Sundance, to the shorter golden curls of Pippin… it wasn’t just the hair, of course… that face, the smile, his voice… the whole damn package. Like millions of other baby boomers, he had us swooning for years. How lovely to sit down with Bill, these almost 50 years later, to discover he’s still got that boyhood charm, mischievous sense of fun, with just a teeny touch of bad boy (note him playfully admonishing his wife when she sneaks into the “set.” And, the au courant platinum do, and facial hair he’s currently sporting still make him a handsome standout. That’s the trivial superficialities - but, what do you expect when you’re talking about a movie star heartthrob? Well, there is the laid-back, easy-going, real as-beans, straight-shooter, who was crazy fun to chat with and get his inside perspective on his parents, actors, Bill Williams  (Kit Carson) and Barbara Hale - loved to learn that she was also funny- Betty White funny, and inspired at least one woman to great professional heights, on Angie Dickenson, his first TV co-star, his passion for theatre, always, working with Bob Fosse, and Ben Vereen, Auditioning for George Lucas, to play Luke Skywalker with Kurt Russell as Hans Solo - doing a great job, instead being cast by Brian DePalma in his seminal work, Carrie, alongside his friend, and perhaps for a brief moment something more, Amy Irving, visited on the set by Steven Spielberg, perhaps where that all began, alongside beloved Nancy Allen (who is responsible for connecting me with Bill, making this conversation possible), John Travolta, Betty Buckley, Piper Laurie, Cissy Spacek-some great stories there, we talked about The Greatest American Hero, and the risk back then of going from film to TV, working with Robert Culp, and Connie Selleca,  House, and George Wendt, great Sci-Fi with The Man From Earth, why he no longer does theatre, does only good films for friends, like last years’ Pursuit with John Cusack and an upcoming film with Alfred Molina. We talked about music throughout his life, bands in high school, playing clubs later on, a pop hit, lots of musical theatre culminating with Pippin and Fosse, and a musical about and working with, Randy Newman, which his love for came out his pores when describing, to his current passion Jazz project.

William Katt is a Renaissance man. We already know he looks great in tights. 

What FUN!!!! 

Wiliam Katt Live on Game Changers With Vicki Abelson 
Wednesday, 10/2/24, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET
Streamed Live on my Facebook
Replay here:
https://bit.ly/3Y9jGGa

Wiliam Katt Live On Game Changers With Vicki Abelson

Esta vez dejamos el agua de vienesa en pausa porque Kari nos acompañó para charlar sobre el espectacular musical Wicked 🧙‍♀️🎶 y la (¿realmente esperada?) secuela de Moana 🌊🐚.

¿Qué tal estas apuestas musicales y animadas? ¿Las verás o prefieres pasar? 🤔 ¡Déjanos tus comentarios y cuéntanos qué opinas!

🎧 Dale like, suscríbete y nos vemos en el siguiente episodio! 🍿✨

#PodcastDeCine #Cinetoscopio #Wicked #Moana2 #CineMusical #CineDeAnimación #ReseñasDeCine #LinkEnBio

🎙️ Podcast 225: Wicked & Moana 2 🌊🎵

Reprise of "Too Good to be True" that opens the story performed by then entire ensemble building to feature Kellen and Sydney in a rousing anthem that invites the audience to consider our evolving relationship between humans and increasingly powerful technology pervading our lives.

Too Good to be True-FINALE

#NerdToKnowBasis, #Wicked, #MarioBros, #ToyShow, #TheLateLateToyShow, #Podcast, #Nintendo, #Broadway, #Gaming, #IrishTraditions, #GeekCulture, #PopCulture

This week, we’re flying high with a review of Wicked, diving into the joy of the new Mario Bros. game, and celebrating Ireland’s favorite TV tradition, The Late Late Toy Show! Expect laughs, nostalgia, and plenty of geeky banter.

📅 Air Date: 14-12-24

Nerd To Know Basis #245 🤓: Wickedly Good Fun, Mario Madness, and Toy Show Magic!

Host Kim Singleton talks with the cast of the hit Broadway musical, A WONDERFUL WORLD: The Louis Armstrong Musical. James Monroe Iglehart, Darlesia Cearcy, Kim Exum and Jennie Harney-Fleming discuss the play and the colorful life of Louis Armstrong.

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Consider It Blacklit: The Louis Armstrong Musical

In this month's podcast we highlight the singer Hilary Kole, with an array of her
favourite pianists such as Dave Brubeck and Michel Legrand; but take note
also of (male) singer J. D. Walter a newish name not many.

The Cabaret Room - March 2025

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