Current mood:	happy
Entry tags:	azilie's story, story soundtracks

Another song!
I am continuing to rip off musicals to add songs to the Defying Gravity soundtrack. But I found another one that really, really, really fits Azilie!

Okay, so, the reason this song came to mind was that on Tuesday, I was a judge for a junior high speech and recitation contest and one girl did Yertle the Turtle. I was impressed that a Japanese student decided to do something like Dr. Seuss, since most of them wanted to do such uplifting topics such as the death of a leaf in autumn, a woman who died on the Titanic, or people dying in Hiroshima. (Seriously, I heard each of those at least two or three times. Advice to people choosing recitations for students: THINK HAPPY! You can be way more theatrical with happy pieces -- or even angry pieces! one of those won too -- but not sad ones. Geez. The winner was a girl who did Sideways Stories from Wayside School.)

But I digrss. Anyway, Yertle the Turtle got me thinking about other Dr. Seuss things, which brought to mind a musical I saw in Minneapolis last June when I was there with my family. (And apparently my mom and dad are on the way there right now, again. Emily gets so many more visitors than I do. Hey, we're both 14 hours away from home, what gives? ;p ) My aunt there had tickets to this children's theater production of Seussical the Musical so we decided, hey, let's go see it. (We saw Les Mis on the same trip. Yay musical theater!) And I ended up really liking this one song. But then I forgot about it until Yertle the Turtle.

And listening to it now makes me think how much some of these lines could be Azilie's! :D







This passage especially fits:

Not a person seems to know.
Not a person seems to care.
There is no one who believes a thing I say...

Well, I'm fairly certain
At one time or other,
Great thinkers all feel this way!

I'm alone in the universe.
So alone in the universe.
I've found magic but they don't see it

They all call me a lunatic.
Ok, call me a lunatic.
If I stand on my own, so be it.

'Cause I have wings.
Yes, I can fly
Around the moon
And far beyond the sky

:)

Isn't that cute and happy?

That won't have spoiled anything for the story (the way Defying Gravity would have if I had commented too much, hahaha) -- it's just the theme that fits so well.

It's a common theme in musicals like these, I guess, but hey, it's hard to have too many stories with this message!


That just made me happy, so I had to share it. And now I'm off to listen to some other music while drawing a scene with my own story's counterparts to Horton and Jojo, with my new markers. (I have SO MANY THINGS I should be doing for the next two hours -- I've hardly been able to sit still and settle all morning because every two minutes I come up with something ELSE I should be doing with my time -- but I have hardly gotten to use my markers at all, so you know what? I'm going to put everything off and DRAW. Yay. And then there's the art fair downtown this weekend and everyone coming to that, and then there's the delayed debate watch party at my house tonight, and then there's more going on tomorrow...ack, so much to do! But no! The next two hours are mine and I shall not be guilted into doing anything else, so help me! ;)