Songs of Midlife Madness
Written and Performed by Lisa-Marie Newton
Music Direction by Tom Shaw
Directed by Daren A.C. Carollo
PROGRAM
Basket Case (Green Day) by Billie Joe Armstrong
Crazy He Calls Me (Crazy You'll Call Me) by Bob Russell and Carl Sigman
Crazy (Patsy Cline) by Willie Nelson
Really Rosy (Really Lisa) by Carole King and Maurice Sendak
Les Oiseaux dans la charmille (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) by Jaques Offenbach
Smile by Charlie Chaplin
Les Oiseaux dans la charmille (reprise) by Jaques Offenbach
Time Does Not Bring Relief by Jeff Blumenkranz
When You Come Home to Me (The Last Five Years) by Jason Robert Brown
Waving Through a Window (Dear Evan Hansen) by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
I Miss the Mountains (Next to Normal) by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
(My) Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown (The Rolling Stones) by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
New York, New York (New York, New York) by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Another Night at Darryl's (The Witches of Eastwick) by John Dempsey and Dana Rowe
Time Does Not Bring Relief by Rona Siddiqui
I'm Breaking Down (Falsettos) by William Finn
Time Does Not Bring Relief by Carmel Dean
A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore (Bye Bye Birdie) by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams
Invisible (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) by David Yazbek
Bein' Green by Joe Raposo
Time Does Not Bring Relief
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go, - so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.
© 2022 by Lisa-Marie Newton