Playhouse Ensembles Sample Repertoire & Performances

  • “A Playhouse Farewell” (1930s Musical Medley) — Sammy Fain/Irving Kahal, George/Ira Gershwin, and Herman Hupfeld, arr. Solon Snider Sway

  • “Beautiful City” from Godspell — Stephen Schwartz, arr. Farrah Rothman

  • “Breathe” from In the Heights – Lin Manuel-Miranda, arr. Matt Cline ‘27

  • Caution to the Wind” from Striking 12 — Val Vigoda ‘87, arr. Halle Mitchell ‘23

  • “Defying Gravity” from Wicked – Stephen Schwartz, arr. Michael McElroy and orch. Isaac Harlan

  • “Fine and Dandy” from Fine and Dandy — Kay Swift and Paul James, arr. Solon Snider Sway

  • “Hadestown Medley” from Hadestown — Anaïs Mitchell, arr. Farrah Rothman

  • Ice Cream Sunday” — Original Instrumental Piece by Matt Cline ‘27

  • “I Know a Place/Somewhere” — mashup of “I Know a Place” by the band MUNA and “Somewhere” from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, arr. Daniel Rudin

  • “I Remember” from Evening Primrose — Stephen Sondheim, arr. Matt Cline ‘27

  • In the Wind” — Commissioned for the 2022-2023 Playhouse Choir with lyrics by members of the group and music/additional lyrics by Kenyon Duncan

  • “It’s Possible” from Seussical the Musical — Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, arr. Matt Cline ‘27

  • “Kaze” (A Studio Ghibli Medley) — Joe Hisaishi, arr. Gia Gan, orch. Griffin Strout

  • “Love Will Find a Way” from Shuffle Along — Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, arr. Kenyon Duncan

  • “More/If It’s Magic/That’s the Way of the World"” – songs by Lawrence, Earth, Wind, & Fire, and Stevie Wonder, arr. Kenyon Duncan

  • “My Story” — Commissioned for the 2022-2023 Playhouse Choir with lyrics by members of the group and music by Jim Papoulis

  • “No One is Alone” from Into the Woods — Stephen Sondheim, arr. Daniel Rudin

  • “Opening Up” from Waitress — Sara Bareilles

  • “Our Time” from Merrily We Roll Along — Stephen Sondheim, arr. Mac Huff

  • “Princess and the Frog Medley” from Princess and the Frog — Randy Newman, arr. Jerome Walker

  • “Soon As I Get Home” from The Wiz — Charlie Smalls, arr. Kenyon Duncan

  • “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with George — Stephen Sondheim, arr. Michael McElroy and orch. Isaac Harlan

  • Sweeney Todd Medley” from Sweeney Todd — Stephen Sondheim, orch. Farrah Rothman

  • “The Circling Universe” — Selections from a 2021 oratorio composed by Georgia Stitt in collaboration with the Princeton Atelier

  • “The Smallest World” — Commissioned for the 2023-2024 Playhouse Ensembles with music and lyrics by Kyle Brenn

  • “The Song of Purple Summer” from Spring Awakening — Duncan Sheik

  • The Quest” — Instrumental Medley from Man of La Mancha by Mitch Leigh, orch. Griffin Strout

  • “The Winter’s Tale” — Selections from Todd Almond’s score (premiered at the Public Theater in 2010) for a community-engaged production in Princeton University’s Berlind Theatre (2023)

  • “They Say It’s Wonderful” from Annie Get Your Gun — Irving Berlin, arr. Halle Mitchell ’23

  • “What’s Inside” from Waitress — Sara Bareilles

  • “Why We Tell the Story” from Once on this Island – Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty

  • “Xulgaria” — 2024 original musical composed for the group by Princeton Arts Fellow Kamara Thomas, arr. Jimmy Waltman ‘23

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