Passing Strange · Musical
Songs in Passing Strange
This page features the songs from Passing Strange. Song cards link to details such as style, context, vocal notes, and audition cut suggestions when available. Explore the list below to access song guides.
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.