Saturday, March 4, 2017

Cancerian Songs From Musicals




Cancer

Sign of water governed by the Moon, which confers enormous sensitivity and creativity, and inclines to domestic life. On the positive side, Cancerians are emotional, caring, protective and friendly. A Cancerian has a lot of imagination and intuition. They can be cautious when needed. They are constantly helping others and engaging in good causes, which satisfies their enormous desire to be useful. They are very creative, sensitive and protective.



If/Then is the newest musical of the duo Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt after the success of Next To Normal, and marks the reunion of Idina Menzel and Anthony Rapp since Rent. Idina plays Elizabeth, a 38-year-old woman who moves to New York after getting divorced to start a new life. In You Don't Need To Love Me, after a heartbreak, Elizabeth sleeps with Lucas, an old friend, who tries at any cost to persuade her to maintain a relationship with him.

 

"You Don't Need To Love Me"
If/Then
(Kitt/Yorkey)


"You don't need to love me
To let me help you through
You don't need to confide in me
I've got crap enough for two
You don't need to answer
I'll know before you do
But hear me
And believe me
That you don't need to love me
The way that I love you"



On the down side, Cancerians have a tendency to sulk. They are calculating, disorderly and self-pitying. They change their moods easily and are very susceptible. It costs them to abandon a situation. Cancer does not like failure, advice or conflicting situations. They do not like people who oppose them and tell them what to do.




"Being Alive"
Company
(Sondheim)


"Somebody, crowd me with love,
Somebody, force me to care,
Somebody, let me come through,
I'll always be there,
As frightened as you,
To help us survive"

After much discussion about his love afflictions and the troubled married lives of his friends, Bobby concludes that he also needs a relationship to "be alive." This was not the ending that Sondheim wanted, but Happily Ever After, the cynical and dark finale that mocked the failure of marriage (and which perhaps served to justify his own personal life at the time, since many say Bobby is Sondheim) displeased test audiences, and was changed to the official Broadway debut of Company.



Cancerian like their homes, the countryside, kids. They like to enjoy hobbies and like parties. The Cancerian also likes romance. They are by nature very friendly and humorous, but at the same time introverted, timid and dreamy; Always seem to be in the clouds.



I Honestly Love You, composed by Australian singer-songwriter Peter Allen, was the hit that made Olivia Newton-John a worldwide pop star in the 70's. In 1998, when Allen's life was transformed into the show The Boy from Oz in Australia, several of his compositions and successes were stitched together to form his biography, and the song became the theme of the fond memories of his relationship with Greg Connell. The show hit the Broadway stage in 2003 with Hugh Jackman in the lead role.


"I Honestly Love You"
The Boy From Oz
(Allen/Barry)


"I'm not trying to make you feel uncomfortable
I'm not trying to make you anything at all
But this feeling doesn't come along everyday
And you shouldn't blow the chance
When you've got the chance to say"


Because of their introversion, it is always difficult to help them. They gather inside their shell, wisely, every time they feel negativity or disharmony hovering in the air. Very sensitive, they can easily get hurt, and their state of mind can swing.



"Easy To Be Hard"
Hair
(Galt MacDermot)


"And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend”
In 1967, a musical about the hippie movement in the USA and resistance to the Vietnam War revolutionized American musical theater, putting an end to the "golden age" of musical theater. Everything was groundbreaking in Hair: the rock soundtrack, the anti-war theme, peace-and-love, nudity, and the ending that invited the audience to come onstage and celebrate. The musical theater, with all its pomp, resisted as much as it could to the changes of the turbulent 60s, but Hair was the shot of mercy.




Very loyal to friends, they often give great importance, especially to "old friends", who are often very close. Always very attached to family and household affairs, "their home is their castle". They need the security of home and family, even if it is not all the time. It is not uncommon to choose professional activities that can be developed in-house.


Baby is a musical that debuted in 1983 with songs by David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr., following the style of the soft rock hits of the 1970s. The story centers on three couples of different ages who deal similarly with an unexpected pregnancy. In I Chose Right, young college student Danny confides to his girlfriend Lizzie his feelings and expectations about the decision to start a family afterfinding out about the pregnancy, even at such a young age.



"I Chose Right"
Baby
(Shire/Maltby Jr.)


"So I think about you
And I think about me lovin' you
And I think of my friends
Who say they're in love
When they're just having fun.
(...)
And I will be true
I will follow this through
And I look at you
And I know I chose right"



They enjoy all kinds of music, depending on their mood. They are intuitive, maternal, very intelligent, endowed with excellent memory, prudent, affective, dedicated and idealistic. They are attracted by social problems, voluntary work, and any activity for the less fortunate. But they can also be gullible, impatient, cranky, obstinate, manipulative, and selfish.


One quality: Tenacity
One flaw: Manipulation

Quotes and sayings


The face is no index to the heart.

"I have on me all the dreams of the world."
—Fernando Pessoa




"Pure Imagination"
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
(Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley)


"If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world
There's nothing to it
There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you'll be free
If you truly wish to be"

Based on the book Charlie &  The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, the fantasy musical Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory starred Gene Wilder was released in 1971. The story is about Charlie, a poor boy who finds in a chocolate bar a ticket to visit Willy Wonka's factory. The film was not an immediate hit, but gained cult following after its repeated TV broadcasts, in addition to sales and home video rentals. It was remade by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp. In Pure Imagination, Willy Wonka presents the factory to the children who won the promotion.



Wherever you're going is where I want to be.

"Love is the second sun of nature."
George Chapman



The Rose is the movie that turned Bette Midler into an international superstar, and shows the troubled life of a self-destructive rock star. The story is loosely based on the life of Janis Joplin, but pseudonyms were used since her family did not authorize the use of Joplin's story. Midler was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar and won a Grammy for singing the title song, which topped the charts in 1980. The song also gave a Golden Globe to composer Amanda McBroom. The song was disqualified at the Oscars for not being especially made for the film.



"The Rose"
The Rose
(McBroom)


"Some say love
It is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love
It is a flower
And you
Its only seed"


"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how kindly you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things that are not for you." 
Buddha

We live again through our memories.



"Try To Remember"
The Fantasticks
(Schmidt/Jones)


"Try to remember
The kind of September
When you were a tender
And callow fellow
Try to remember
And if you remember
Then follow”

Composed by singer Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, The Fantasticks is a 1960s musical that tells the story of two neighbors who fake a rivalry to make their son and daughter, Matt and Luisa, fall in love. The musical was an unexpected success, and holds the record for the longest run in the world, 42 years Off-Broadway. The musical never moved to Broadway, so it never competed for Tony awards, but it won an honorary Tony in 1991. It was adapted for the cinema in 1995, but it was only released in 2000. Try To Remember, is the song that opens and closes the show, sung by the narrator El Gall, originally performed by Jerry Orbach. The song has been recorded by several renowned artists since then.





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VITOR FERREIRA is an actor with a MFA in "Motion Pictures and Television" at the Academy of Art University, in San Francisco/CA, and graphic designer. Lives currently in São Paulo.

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