Friday Fun

Remember the all-church talent show we held in our home on New Year's Eve? Well, here are a couple of highlights!

Blondechick17 (playing Galinda, the Good Witch) and her very talented friend (playing the Wicked Witch) sing how they feel about each other as roommates in the duet "What Is This Feeling?" from Wicked:



(lyrics here, if you'd like to consult them)

Bantam11 (then 10) and his friend (who just starred in Mulan as Mushu) sing "Why Am I Me?" from Shenandoah:



(a duet between a black boy and a white boy in the Civil War era)

Tell you what I’m thinkin’
Honestly and true
How come I come to life as me
And not to life as you

Lord, I know the feeling
‘Cause when I’m by myself
I wonder why
I’m who I am
And not somebody else

‘Way down underneath it all
Where no one gets to see
I bet it feels no different
Bein’ you or bein’ me.

Why was I born
When I was born
Who I was born to be?
Why was I given
The body I’m livin’ in?

Why am I Gabriel?
Why am I Anderson?
Why am I me, why am I me…

Why am I here,
Why am I now,
Why am I who you see?
Why was I handed
The person I landed in?

Why am I Gabriel?
Why am I Anderson?
Why am I me, why am I me…

I figure somebody puts
the “who” into folks
like droppin’ a stone in a lake.
So maybe I’m thinkin’
I’m Abraham Lincoln
And somebody made a mistake.

If I were born
Somebody else
Betcha I still would be me.
So many bein’s
I know I could be me in
Why must I be in
The bein’ you see me in?

Why am I Gabriel?
Why am I Anderson?
Why am I me, why am I me…
Why am I me?
Why am I me?