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polymniachorus uploaded a new video
(6 months ago)
Polymnia's men sing, "Coffee in a Carboard Cup, from "70, Girl...
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Polymnia's men sing, "Coffee in a Carboard Cup, from "70, Girls, 70", a musical with a book by Fred Ebb and Norman L. Martin adapted by Joe Masteroff, lyrics by Ebb, and music by John Kander. The musical is based on the 1958 play Breath of Spring by Peter Coke. The show premiered in the West End at the Vaudeville Theatre on June 17, 1991 running through September 1991.
The trouble with the world today, it seems to me,
is coffee in a cardboard cup.
The trouble with the affluent society
is coffee in a cardboard cup.
No one's ever casual or nonchalant,
No one wastes a minute in a restaurant,
No one wants a waitress passing pleasantries,
like "Hiya Miss, Hiya sir. May I take your order please?"
The trouble with the world today it's plain to see,
is everything is "hurry up".
It's "Rush it through. Don't be slow. B.L.T on rye to go.
And coffee,"
I think she said, "coffee".
I know she said "coffee in a cardboard cup!"
The trouble with the helter skelter life we lead
is coffee in a cardboard cup.
The trouble the psychologists have all agreed
is coffee in a cardboard cup.
Tell me what could possibly be drearier,
than seaboard from the Belnord Cafeteria.
Seems to me a gentleman would much prefer
an "Afternoon! How you been? Would you like the special, sir?"
The trouble with the world is plain, it's plain to see,
is everything is "hurry up."
There's Ready Whip, 'Lectic Shave, Minute Rice and Microwave.
And "coffee",
I think she said "coffee",
I know she said "coffee in a cardboard cup."
Mocha, mocha Joe...
Mocha, mocha Joe...
No one knows the meaning of Utopia,
is dining at your corner cornucopia.
Seems to me we wouldn't be such nervous wrecks
with "Hello there. Be right back. Would you care for separate checks?"
The trouble with the world today it's plain, it's plain to see,
is everything is "hurry up".
It's all become "Looney Tunes"
with sugar packs and plastic spoons,
and "coffee",
I think she said, "coffee",
I know she said, "coffee",
I'm sure she said, "coffee",
She must have said, "coffee in a cardboard cup!"
Hurry up!!
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polymniachorus uploaded a new video
(6 months ago)
Polymnia Choral Society sings, "It Had to Be You", a popular s...
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Polymnia Choral Society sings, "It Had to Be You", a popular song written by Isham Jones with lyrics by Gus Kahn which was first published in 1924. The song was performed by Priscilla Lane in the 1939 film The Roaring Twenties and by Danny Thomas in the 1951 film I'll See You in My Dreams. It was also performed by Dooley Wilson in the 1942 film Casablanca, and by Diane Keaton in the 1977 film Annie Hall. It was also performed in the film A League of Their Own by Megan Cavanagh.
Lyrics:
It had to be you, it had to be you,
I wandered around an' finally found
Somebody who
Could make me be true
Could make me be blue
And even be glad, just to be sad, thinkin' of you,
Some others I've seen
Might never be mean
Might never be cross, or try to be boss,
But they wouldn't do
For nobody else gave me a thrill,
With all your faults, I love you still,
It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you!
Some others I've seen
Might never be mean
Might never be cross, or try to be boss,
But they wouldn't do
Nobody else gave me a thrill,
With all your faults, I love you still,
It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you!
It just had to be you!
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polymniachorus uploaded a new video
(6 months ago)
Polymnia choral Society with soloist, Eileen Christiansen, sing "De...
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Polymnia choral Society with soloist, Eileen Christiansen, sing "Defying Gravity", from "Wicked", a Tony Award-winning Broadway and West End musical. Songs and lyric by Stephen Schwartz and book by Winnie Holzman. The story is based on the best-selling novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, a parallel novel of L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz.
Lyrics:
Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules
Of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes: and leap!
It's time to try
Defying gravity
I think I'll try
Defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!
I'm through accepting limits
'Cuz someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down:
Unlimited
Together we're unlimited
Together we'll be the greatest team
There's ever been
Dreams, the way we planned 'em
If we work in tandem:
There's no fight we cannot win
Just you and I
Defying gravity
With you and I
Defying gravity
They'll never bring us down!
So if you care to find me
Look to the western sky!
As someone told me lately:
"Ev'ryone deserves the chance to fly!"
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who'd ground me
Take a message back from me
Tell them how I am
Defying gravity
I'm flying high
Defying gravity
And soon I'll match them in renown
And nobody in all of Oz
No Wizard that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!
Ahhh!
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polymniachorus uploaded a new video
(6 months ago)
Sweeney Todd is a character who first appeared as the main antagonist of...
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Sweeney Todd is a character who first appeared as the main antagonist of a penny dreadful serial entitled The String of Pearls (1846-1847). In the original version of the tale he is a barber who murders wealthy customers by slitting their throats then pulling a lever while they are in his barber's chair which, unknown to them, is fixed to a revolving trap-door, making them fall backward into the basement. The story of Sweeney Todd an early example of an urban legend.
The tale surrounding the character became a staple of Victorian melodrama, and later a Tony award-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim in 1979. Sweeney Todd has also been featured in several films, the most recent being Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), directed by Tim Burton, with Johnny Depp in the title role. Here, sung by Polymnia Choral Society under the direction of Murray Kidd.
Lyrics:
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.
His skin was pale and his eye was odd.
He shaved the faces of gentlemen
who never thereafter were heard of again.
He trod a path that few have trod
did Sweeney Todd
the demon barber of fleet street.
He kept a shop in London town.
Of fancy clients and good renown
and what if none of their souls were saved
they went to their maker impecably shaved.
By Sweeney,
by Sweeney Todd
the demon barber of fleet street.
Swing your razor wide!
Sweeney, hold it to the skies.
Freely flows the blood of those who moralize.
His needs were few, his room was bare.
A lavabo and a fancy chair.
A mug of suds, and a leather strop,
an apron, a towel, a pail, and a mop.
For neatness he deserves a nod,
does Sweeney Todd,
the demon barber of Fleet Street.
Inconspicuous Sweeney was,
quick, and quiet and clean he was.
Back of his smile, under his word,
Sweeney heard music that nobody heard.
Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned,
like a perfect machine he planned,
Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,
Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle
Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle
Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle
Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,
Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle
Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,
Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle
Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney!
Sweeney!
Sweeney Todd
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd!
He served a dark and avengeful God!
Sweeney Todd
What happened then, well that's the play,
and he wouldn't want us to give it away...
Not Sweeney
Not Sweeney Todd
The demon barber of Fleet...
Street...
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polymniachorus uploaded a new video
(6 months ago)
"They Can't Take That Away From Me" is a 1937 song written by ...
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"They Can't Take That Away From Me" is a 1937 song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film Shall We Dance. George Gershwin died two months after the film's release, and he was posthumously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 1937 Oscars. Sung by Polymnia Choral Society under the baton of Murray Kidd.
Lyrics:
The way you wear your hat,
The way you sip your tea,
The mem'ry of all that --
No, no! They can't take that away from me!
The way your smile just beams,
The way you sing off key,
The way you haunt my dreams --
No, no! They can't take that away from me!
We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love,
Still I'll always, always keep
The mem'ry of --
The way you hold your knife,
The way we danced 'til three.
The way you changed my life --
No, no! They can't take that away from me!
No! They can't take that away from me!
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