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