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Alana Graber in Musical

Thu, Dec 01, 2011

Last year's HCS salutatorian recently had a role in a new musical review staged by the University of Buffalo's Theater Department.

Alana Graber was one of the performers in It Goes Like It Goes, a review of the music of Academy Award winning composer David Shire.

Among other things, Shire wrote music for the movies Saturday Night Fever, and Norma Rae as well as the stage productions of Big, Baby, Closer Than Ever .

Graber was one of 18 undergraduates performing in the show.

Director-choreographer Terry Berliner (The Lion King, The Sound of Music, The Red Shoes, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife) worked on the piece with an undergraduate cast and associate professor of music theatre Nathan R. Matthews, who is the show's conceiver, music director and orchestrator.

Songs in the show included:

  • "I Hear Bells (Starting Here, Starting Now)
  • "Salsation" ("Saturday Night Fever")
  • "I Want It All" (Baby)
  • "What Am I Doin'?" (Closer Than Ever)
  • "Halfway Home" ("The Earthling")
  • Travel (Starting Here, Starting Now)
  • "Back on Base" (Closer Than Ever)
  • "There's Nothing Like It" (Closer Than Ever)
  • "Do You Want to Play Games/Stars, Stars, Stars" (Big)
  • "Cross the Line" (Big)
  • "I'll Never Say Goodbye" ("The Promise")
  • "The Sound of Muzak" (Closer Than Ever)
  • "If I Sing" (Closer Than Ever)
  • "Simplicity" (for Ed Wortz)
  • "Earthbound" (Take Flight)
  • "Only When I Laugh" ("Only When I Laugh")
  • "What About Today?" (Starting Here, Starting Now)
  • "Coffee, Black" (Big)
  • "It Goes Like It Goes" ("Norma Rae")
  • "Before the Dawn" (Take Flight)
  • "One Step" (Starting Here, Starting Now)
  • and "Manhattan Skyline" ("Saturday Night Fever").
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