Songs & Shows

Spring 2002 On February 16th, 2002, OBOC was part of a huge musical event: The Yellowjacket’s annual Mid-Winter Jamboree. This massive concert included the Greece-Athena Show Choir, the Tufts Amalgamates, OBOC, and of course the Yellowjackets themselves performing for a packed and very appreciative house. It was OBOC’s first taste of Upper Strong…

Then came April 19th, 2002. On that night, OBOC performed what would be its sixth and final revue in Lower Strong. Entitled “No Day But Today,” it was by far OBOC’s most entertaining and well-received show to date. In a full page feature story for the Campus Times published the week after the show Todd Hildebrandt said, “They put on their best performance of their four year history, cementing their position as one of the premier student performance groups on campus.” All in all, everyone felt great about the upcoming move to bigger and better things: Upper Strong!

• “Another Openin’, Another Show” from Kiss Me, Kate!
• “Cell Block Tango” from Chicago
• “The Lion Tamer” from The Magic Show
• “The Baseball Game” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• “Home” from The Wiz
• “Mall” from Suburb
• “Big Ass Rock” from The Full Monty
• “Who Can I Turn To” from The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd
• “Ever After” from Into the Woods
• “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast
• “The Portrait” from A…My Name Is Alice
• “Facade” from Jekyll and Hyde
• “Last One Picked” from Howard Crabtree’s Whoop-Dee Doo!
• “Hakuna Matata” from The Lion King
• “Let’s Hear It For the Boy” from Footloose
• “Bui Doi” from Miss Saigon
• “Finale B” from RENT

President: Robert Weinstein
Vice-President: Angela Cucci
Business Manager: Katie Moore
Publicity Director: Kary Haddad
Secretary: Kelly LaPlante

The Fall 2001 show contained shows that OBOC had never done numbers from before. It was a smashing success!  Sell-out crowds, loud cheers of appreciation and a HUGE increase in membership for the spring all pointed to the continued future success of our beloved student-run musical theater group.

• “Invocation and Instructions to the Audience” from The Frogs
• “Prologue” from Little Shop of Horrors
• “I Will Be Loved Tonight” from I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
• “If Momma Was Married” from Gypsy
• “Master of the House” from Les Miserables
• “Taylor” from Adventures in Love
• “Glee Club Rehearsal” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• “Prayer” from The Scarlet Pimpernel
• “New Music” from Ragtime
• “Joseph’s Coat” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• “Easy as Life” from Elton John and Tim Rice’s AIDA
• “A Secretary is Not a Toy” from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• “It’s a Woman’s World” from The Full Monty
• “Anyone Can Whistle” from Anyone Can Whistle
• “By My Side” from Godspell
• “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better” from Annie Get Your Gun
• “Circle of Life” from The Lion King

• “There’s No Business Like Show Business” from Annie Get Your Gun
• “Whatever Lola Wants” from Damn Yankees
• “She Is Not Thinking of Me” from Gigi
• “Nothing” from A Chorus Line
• “Coffee Break” from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
• “Lily’s Eyes” from The Secret Garden
• “We Beseech Thee” from Godspell
• “Cabaret” from Cabaret
• “It’s A Hard Knock Life” from Annie
• “Those Canaan Days” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• “Your Daddy’s Son” from Ragtime
• “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat” from Guys and Dolls
• “Sunday Clothes” from Hello Dolly
• “Reviewing the Situation” from Oliver
• “Who Will Love Me As I Am” from Side Show
• “A Lot of Livin’ To Do” from Bye, Bye, Birdie
• “Miracle of Miracles” from Fiddler on the Roof
• “Sunday in the Park With George” from Sunday in the Park With George
• “I Sing the Body Electric” from Fame (The Movie)

Now with SA Funding, OBOC was further along than ever before in its quest to take over the world.

President: Kelly LaPlante
Vice-President: Robert Weinstein
Business Managers: Kate Navarra & Katie Moore
Publicity Directors: Susan Hammontree & Scott Klein
Secretary: Angela Cucci

OBOC continued to grow, and the Fall 2000 revue was another fantastic success! Who could go wrong with a lineup like this:

• “Comedy Tonight” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• “Been A Long Day” from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• “Six Months Out of Every Year” from Damn Yankees
• “A New Life” from Jekyll and Hyde
• “There Is Nothing Like a Dame” and “Honey Bun” from South Pacific
• “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again” from The Phantom of the Opera
• “Who Is the Scarlet Pimpernel” from The Scarlet Pimpernel
• “Why We Tell the Story” from Once On This Island
• “Skid Row” from Little Shop of Horrors
• “Shuffle Off to Buffalo” from 42nd Street
• “Little Girls” from Annie
• “Morning Glow” from Pippin
• “Suppertime” from You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown
• “I Know Him So Well” from Chess
• “Seasons of Love” from RENT

OBOC’s second annual spring revue was on April 16th, 2000. Participants and audience members remember it as “Riveting,” “Artistically Innovative,” and “Super-Fun.”

• “Magic to Do” from Pippin
• “How Could I Ever Know” from The Secret Garden
• “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• “Who Will Buy?” from Oliver
• “Where Is the Life That Late I Led?” from Kiss Me, Kate
• “Easy Street” from Annie
• “Brotherhood of Man” from How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
• “Take Me or Leave Me” from RENT
• “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music
• “One Day More” from Les Miserables
• “America” and “Gee, Officer Krupke” from West Side Story
• “Sarah Brown Eyes” from Ragtime
• “Baby” from A…My Name Is Still Alice
• “Mr. Cellophane” from Chicago
• “Time Warp” from The Rocky Horror Show
• “Life Upon the Wicked Stage” from Show Boat
• “Book Report” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• “We Go Together” from Grease

President: Nora Macey
Business Manager: Scott Klein
Treasurer: Kate Navarra
Publicity Director: Susan Hammontree
Secretary: Kelly LaPlante

Under their guidance, the group moved their revue (now an every-semester event!) to Lower Strong Auditorium.

“Belle” from Beauty and the Beast
“Tell My Father” and “For the Honor of Your Name” from The Civil War
“We’re in the Money” from 42nd Street
“The Riddle” from The Scarlet Pimpernel
“Ease on Down the Road” from The Wiz
“Fugue For Tin Horns” from Guys and Dolls
“At the Ballet” from A Chorus Line
“Empty Chairs and Empty Tables” from Les Miserables
“Happiness” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
“All ‘Er Nothing” from Oklahoma!
“Heart” from Damn Yankees
“Big Spender” from Sweet Charity
“Beauty School Dropout” from Grease
“Dirty Old Man” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
“Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)” from Hair