A Way Back to Then - [title of show]

From the 2006 Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording.
Featuring Heidi Blickenstaff.
Music and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen.

Opened: Jul 17, 2008
Closed: Oct 12, 2008
Total Performances: 102

Lyrics -

Dancing in the backyard
Kool-aid moustache and butterfly wings
Hearing Andrea McArdle sing
From the hi-fi in the den
I've been waiting my whole life
To find a way back to then

I aimed for the sky
A nine-year-old can see so far
I'll conquer the world and be a star
I'll do it all by the time I'm ten
I would know that confidence
If I knew a way back to then

So I bailed on my hometown
And became a college theatre dork
I was eastbound and down
Moving to New York
So I crammed my life in a U-Haul
To find my part of it all

But the mundane sets in
We play by the rules
And plough through the days
The years take us miles away
From the time we wondered when
We'd find a way back to then

And when you least expect
Opportunity walks through the door
You suddenly connect
With the thing that you forgot
That you were looking for

And there you are
Right in the middle of what you love
With the craziest of company
You're having a kick-ass time
And being who you wanted to be in this world

You're that little girl
With her wings unfurled
Flying again
Back in your backyard dancing
I found a way back to then.

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[NirvanaSunshine]

@FrancisHMacomber I thought it would be cool to go watch each others show! But I may sound like a weirdo :o so nevermind lol!

[NirvanaSunshine]

@FrancisHMacomber Ahh, atleast you got a part! :) Just wondering, but what state do you live in? 

[FrancisHMacomber]

@NirvanaSunshine It went well haha I didn't get Mayzie; I have the lowest voice of the entire Drama Club (i.e. I'm Gen. Ghengis Khan Schmitz and Yertle the Turtle). It's fine though. That just means I'm the manliest man despite being female hahaha

[XxFeLxX94]

I seriously want to see this show so bad.

[NirvanaSunshine]

@FrancisHMacomber tell me how your audition goes! i really want to know :) ..and that's the best part of the song btw.

[FrancisHMacomber]

@NirvanaSunshine No, I only get sixteen bars ~ 30 seconds. I'm singing "You suddenly connect...flying again" portion of the song. I have to double check the measures but that's roughly it.

[NirvanaSunshine]

@FrancisHMacomber Are you singing the entire song?

[FrancisHMacomber]

@NirvanaSunshine Thanks! I think I have enough time to get to holding the notes longer than Heidi. Auditions are in two weeks :)

[NirvanaSunshine]

@FrancisHMacomber Yes! My friend who is Mayzie La Bird sang this at Districts and is actually going to states with it!! :D It works! Just make sure you hold out the notes longer than she does! Make it more jazzy :) Btw, I'm Jojo and GOOD LUCK!

[FrancisHMacomber]

Two months until auditions for what might be Seussical or Guys & Dolls, gotta find a song. Range: Mayzie La Bird or Adelaide. Hm. This? YES.