Passing Strange

Musical

Writers: Mark Stewart "Stew" Heidi Rodewald

Songs

Act One

  • Prologue: We Might Play All Night — Narrator and the Band
  • Baptist Fashion Show — Narrator, Band and Ensemble
  • Blues Revelation; Freight Train:
  • Listening is Waiting — Heidi (from the Band) and Narrator
  • Church Blues Revelation — Reverend Jones, Narrator and Ensemble
  • Music is the Freight Train in which God Travels — Narrator and Ensemble
  • Edwina Williams — Edwina and Narrator
  • Arlington Hill ; Everything's Alright — Narrator; Narrator and Ensemble
  • Sole Brother — Youth, Terry and Sherry
  • Must've Been High — Narrator
  • Mom Song; Philistines — Narrator, Mother and Ensemble; Youth and Ensemble
  • Merci Beaucoup, M. Godard — Narrator and Stewardesses
  • Amsterdam — Band and Ensemble
  • Keys:
  • Keys #1 — Marianna and Youth
  • Keys #2 — Narrator
  • It's Alright — Narrator and Ensemble
  • We Just Had Sex — Youth, Marianna and Renata
  • Paradise:
  • Paradise/Stoned — Youth, Marianna and Ensemble
  • Keys (Reprise) — Youth and Narrator
  • Paradise (Reprise)/Starting to Feel Real — Youth, Marianna, Band and Ensemble

Act Two

  • May Day:
  • Berlin: A Black Hole with Taxis — Narrator
  • May Day (There's a Riot Goin' Down) — Narrator, Heidi, Youth, Nowhaus and Ensemble
  • Desi — Narrator, Youth, Desi and Ensemble
  • Are You Ready to Explode? — Narrator and Ensemble
  • Surface:
  • What's Inside is Just a Lie — Mr. Venus
  • Are You Ready to Explode? (Reprise) — Mr. Venus, Youth and Ensemble
  • The System Does All Kinds of Damage — Narrator, Desi and Youth
  • Identity — Youth
  • The Black One — Narrator and Ensemble
  • Come Down Now:
  • Listening is Waiting (Reprise) — Heidi
  • Come Down Now — Desi and Heidi
  • Starting to Feel Real (Reprise) — Narrator, Desi, Heidi and Ensemble
  • Youth's Unfinished Song — Youth
  • Work the Wound — Narrator
  • Passing Phase — Youth and Narrator
  • Cue Music (Is It Alright?) — Narrator and Mother
  • Epilogue: Love Like That — Narrator and Heidi
  • Encore: It's Alright — All

A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.


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