Songs & Shows
Pandemonium!
- “Razzle Dazzle” from Chicago
- “Rita’s Confession” from Lucky Stiff
- “Run, Freedom, Run” from Urinetown
- “Mix Tape” from Avenue Q
- “Can’t Help Falling in Love” from All Shook Up
- “Something Just Broke” from Assassins
- “Agony” from Into the Woods
- “Pandemonium” from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- “Take Me or Leave Me” from RENT
- “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from Les Miserables
- “Take a Little One Step” from No, No, Nanette
- “Nine People’s Favorite Thing” from [title of show]
- “My Junk” from Spring Awakening
- “Guido’s Song” from Nine
- “My Strongest Suit” from Aida
- “You’re Nothing Without Me” from City of Angels
- “Cantata for a First Date” from I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
- “Popular” from Wicked
- “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Carousel
- “Louder Than Words” from Tick, Tick…Boom!
The Bright Side of Life
OBOC continued to impress audiences in Upper Strong, and this year we added a unique tradition: Cabaret Night!
President: Shonali Gupta
Vice President: Lydia Dewey
Business Manager: Michael Bozzella
Publicity Director: Dan Allan
Secretary: David Lu!!
Librarian: Howie Kanter
Historian: Calley Beckwith
Social Chair: Deby Philbrick
- “Circle of Life” from The Lion King
- “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- “Give Them What They Want” from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
- “Easy as Life” from Aida
- “Be My Friend” from Edges
- “It’s a Hard Knock Life” from Annie
- “Mama Says” from Footloose
- “Finale B” from RENT
- “Younger Than Springtime” from South Pacific
- “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from Spamalot
- “Master of the House” from Les Miserables
- “Why” from Tick, Tick…Boom!
- “Bring on the Men” from Jekyll & Hyde
- “Luck be a Lady” from Guys & Dolls
- “Single Man Drought” from I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
- “The New World” from Songs for a New World
- “Your Daddy’s Son” from Ragtime
- “It’s Your Wedding Day” from The Wedding Singer
La Vie Boheme
- “Be Our Guest” from Beauty And The Beast
- “One Hundred Easy Ways” from Wonderful Town
- “It Sucks to Be Me” from Avenue Q
- “Mama I’m a Big Girl Now” from Hairspray
- “Flying Home” from Songs For A New World
- “All ‘er Nuthin’” from Oklahoma!
- “La Vie Boheme” from RENT
- “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago
- “Nobody Needs To Know” from The Last 5 Years
- “Steam Heat” from Pajama Game
- “NYC” from Annie
- “Lost in the Wilderness” from Children of Eden
- “Hello 12, Hello 13″ from A Chorus Line
- “But Mr. Adams” from 1776
- “Take Back Your Mink” from Guys & Dolls
- “There is Nothing Like a Dame” from South Pacific
- “The I Love You Song” from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
- “Salzburg” from Bells Are Ringing
- “Anytime” from Elegies
- “Fame” from Fame
Loose Your Blues!
Note: Songs from this show or earlier are eligible for the Fall 2009 revue!
OBOC learns to dance as never before through Jake-aerobics! “Footloose” becomes a large group number for the books.
President: Heather Good
Vice President: Rob Rice
Business Manager: Carolyn Spencer
Publicity Director: Dan Allan
Secretary: Lydia Dewey
Librarian: Theresa Guarrera
Historian: Sarah Seider
Social Chair: Shonali Gupta
- “One Short Day” from Wicked
- “Vanilla Ice Cream” from She Loves Me
- “Gordo’s Law of Genetics” from A New Brain
- “Follow Your Heart” from Urinetown
- “The Lonely Goatherd” from The Sound of Music
- “The Song That Goes Like This” from Spamalot
- “The Gods Love Nubia” from Aida
- “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables
- “A Stud and a Babe” from I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
- “We Go Together” from Grease
- “Ease On Down The Road” from The Wiz
- “If I Can’t Love Her” from Beauty And The Beast
- “Glee Club Rehearsal” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- “I Still Believe” from Miss Saigon
- “Brotherhood of Man” from How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
- “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- “By My Side” from Godspell
- “The Next Ten Minutes” from The Last 5 Years
- “Footloose” from Footloose
Got Rhythm?
- “Good Morning Baltimore” from Hairspray
- “Funny Honey” from Chicago
- “What Is This Feeling?” from Wicked
- “Lovely Reprise” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- “Gaston” from Beauty and the Beast
- “Book Report” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- “Little Things” from Company
- “Why God” from Miss Saigon
- “We Beseech Thee” from Godspell
- “Skid Row” from Little Shop of Horrors
- “Cabaret” from Cabaret
- “Aquarius” from Hair
- “We Can Do It” from The Producers
- “America” from West Side Story
- “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York” from Guys & Dolls
- “Hear My Song” from Songs for a New World
- “I’m a Woman” from Smokey Joe’s Café
- “I Feel So Much Spring” from A New Brain
- “I’ve Got Rhythm” from Crazy for You
Sit Down, We’re Rockin’ the Show!
Executive Board:
President: Sarah Kay
Vice President: Erin Sigmund
Business Manager: Carolyn Spencer
Publicity Director: Heather Good / Dan Allan
Secretary: Katie Walsh
Librarian: John Poiarkoff
Historian: Rachel Morgan-Wall
Social Chair: Lydia Dewey
- “A Lot of Living to Do” from Bye, Bye, Birdie
- “What You Own” from RENT
- “Together, Wherever We Go” from Gypsy
- “Hey There” from Pajama Game
- “For Now” from Avenue Q
- “In His Eyes” from Jekyll & Hyde
- “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” from Guys & Dolls
- “Exposé” from Zombie Prom
- “One Day More” from Les Miserables
- “They Both Reached for the Gun” from Chicago
- “Stars and the Moon” from Songs for a New World
- “Forget About the Boy” from Thoroughly Modern Millie
- “Officer Krupke” from West Side Story
- “For Good” from Wicked
- “Morning Glow” from Pippin
- “Therapy” from Tick, Tick…Boom!
- “Lily’s Eyes” from The Secret Garden
- “Why We Tell the Story” from Once on This Island
You Can’t Stop The Beat
- “Thoroughly Modern Millie” from Thoroughly Modern Millie
- “She Loves Me” from She Loves Me
- “Will I?” from RENT
- “The River Won’t Flow” from Songs For A New World
- “Stranger to the Rain” from Children of Eden
- “He Lives in You” from The Lion King
- “Too Darn Hot” from Kiss Me, Kate
- “In A Very Unusual Way” from Nine
- “Time Warp” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- “I Must Get on That Ship” from Titanic
- “I Can’t Do It Alone” from Chicago
- “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with George
- “Quartet” from The Secret Garden
- “Big Spender” from Sweet Charity
- “Goodbye Until Tomorrow” from The Last 5 Years
- “Shiksa Goddess” from The Last 5 Years
- “I Wish I Could Go Back to College” from Avenue Q
- “You Can’t Stop the Beat” from Hairspray
All That Jazz
President: Kary Haddad
Vice-President: Erin Sigmund
Business Manager: John Poiarkoff
Publicity Director: Heather Good
Secretary: Erika Rodger
Librarian: Jason Kay
Histor: Katie Walsh
Social Chair: Sarah Kay
This performance marked OBOC’s fifth-year anniversary! In honor of this, we had a multiple performance of All That Jazz. In addition to being our show’s title, we projected a recording of the original group performing the song and then performed ourselves. The group had grown quite a lot. The audience loved it, and so did we!
- “All That Jazz” from Chicago
- “My New Philosophy” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- “Getting To Know You” from The King and I
- “Belle” from Beauty and the Beast
- “Written in the Stars” from Elton John and Tim Rice’s AIDA
- “Scrap” from The Full Monty
- “I Just Can’t Wait To Be King” from The Lion King
- “Suddenly Seymour” from Little Shop of Horrors
- “Make Them Hear You” from Ragtime
- “At The End Of The Day” from Les Miserables
- “She Cries” from Songs for a New World
- “Heart and Music” from A New Brain
- “The Heat Is On In Saigon” from Miss Saigon
- “Don’t” from Martin Guerre
- “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” from I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
- “Shy” from Once Upon a Mattress
- “Children of Eden” from Children of Eden
One
OBOC performed numbers incorporating modern dance and sign language, and also established the tradition of the “newbie number.”
- “One” from A Chorus Line
- “Don’t Tell Mama” from Cabaret
- “The Telephone Hour” from Bye, Bye, Birdie
- “Love Changes Everything” from Aspects of Love
- “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” from My Fair Lady
- “Maybe I Like It This Way” from The Wild Party
- “Prologue” from Godspell
- “I’d Give It All For You” from Songs for a New World
- “The Doctor Is In” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- “It’s Today” from Mame
- “Join the Circus” from Barnum
- “Some Girls” from Once On This Island
- “My Strongest Suit” from Elton John and Tim Rice’s AIDA
- “Guys and Dolls” from Guys and Dolls
- “Run Freedom Run” from Urinetown
- “When You’re Good To Mama” from Chicago
- “Louder Than Words” from Tick, Tick, Boom!
- “You’re The Top” from Anything Goes
- “Our Time” from Merrily We Roll Along
- “Bring On Tomorrow” from Fame: The Musical
The New World
President: Angela Cucci
Vice-President: Mike Axler
Business Manager: Katie Moore
Publicity Director: Kary Haddad
Secretary: Sarah Heximer
Librarian: Max Denler
Historian: Erin Sigmund
Social Chair: Megan Sullivan
Saturday evening, November 23rd, 2002, OBOC presented their first ever show in Upper Strong. And what a show it was. More members, a bigger stage, spectacular lights (provided by Miss Tori Sweetser and company) and the addition of percussion on many numbers made for an evening of musical theater unlike anything we had ever done before.
- “Merrily We Roll Along” from Merrily We Roll Along
- “Always True To You In My Fashion” from Kiss Me Kate
- “Standing on the Corner” from The Most Happy Fella
- “Summer Nights ” from Grease
- “All the Wasted Time” from Parade
- “Tonight” from West Side Story
- “Now When the Rain Falls” from The Scarlet Pimpernel
- “Lullabye of Broadway” from 42nd Street
- “We Dance ” from Once On This Island
- “On The Street Where You Live” from My Fair Lady
- “Bring On The Men” from Jekyll & Hyde
- “All For the Best” from Godspell
- “Walking to School” from Suburb
- “Being Alive ” from Company
- “The New World” from Songs for a New World
- “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from Les Miserables