Presented by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Programs in Theater and Music Theater
Mostly Sort of Happily Ever After, a Cabaret
Run Time
70 minutes with no intermission.
Special Notes
No flash photography or audio/video recording is permitted. Please silence all electronic devices including cellular phones and watches, and refrain from text messaging for the duration of the performance.
Featured Songs
- “I Won’t Grow Up” — Peter Pan, Morris Charlap and Jules Styne; performed by the Ensemble
- “Go the Distance” — Hercules, Alan Menken; performed by Matthew Weatherhead ’23
- “A Million Miles Away” — Aladdin, Alan Menken; performed by Liam Wang ’26 and Jenna Park ’25
- “Before It’s Over” — Dogfight, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul; performed by Carrie Geisler ’25
- “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better” — Annie Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin; performed by Zach Lee ’26 and Cassy James ’23
- “Michael in the Bathroom” — Be More Chill, Joe Iconis; performed by Liam Wang ’26
- “For Good” — Wicked, Stephen Schwartz; performed by Madeleine LeBeau ’24 and Osamede Ogbomo ’25
- “What Do You Know About Love?” — Frozen, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez; performed by Matthew Weatherhead ’23 and Carrie Geisler ’25
- “I Won’t Send Roses” — Mack and Mable, Jerry Herman; performed by Zach Lee ’26
- “Who Needs Love?” — Ever After, Zina Goldrich; performed by Cassy James ’23
- “No One Else” — Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, Dave Malloy; performed by Madeleine LeBeau ’24
- “Stranger in This World” — Taboo, Boy George; performed by Matthew Weatherhead ’23
- “Losing My Mind” — Follies, Stephen Sondheim; performed by Cassy James ’23
- “Someone Like You” — Jekyll and Hyde, Frank Wildhorn; performed by Jenna Park ’25
- “She Used to Be Mine” — Waitress, Sara Bareilles; performed by Osamede Ogbomo ’25
- “Lost in the Brass” — Band Geeks, Mark Allen, Gaby Alter, and Tommy Newman; performed by Madeleine LeBeau ’24
- “Woman” — The Pirate Queen, Claude-Michel Schönberg; performed by Cassy James ’23
- “No One Is Alone” — Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim; performed by the Ensemble
Production Team
Director and Thesis Proposer: Cassandra James ’23
Music Director: Vince di Mura
Lighting Designer: Aimee Sampayan ’23
Stage Manager: Claire Galat ’23
*denotes a certificate student in the Program in Theater
Faculty Advisor
Stacy Wolf, Faculty Advisor
Director’s Note
Sometimes, we just wish we could disappear to Neverland or Narnia and stay there forever.
After all, growing up is a rollercoaster with a hundred heart-stopping twists: leaving family and finding family, chasing dreams and switching paths, meeting friends and losing them, falling in love and falling back out of it. So what’s the point of it all, anyway?
Through songs from Broadway’s hit musicals, we’ll take the ride that is becoming an adult, with all of the highs and lows that come with it. And maybe—just maybe—we’ll find out that growing up isn’t as bad as we thought. In fact, we might be doing better than we ever dreamed we could be!
Don’t worry, though. We’ll still have your Hogwarts letter waiting for you if we don’t change your mind.
— Cassandra James ’23
Land Acknowledgement
An estimated 10 million Native Americans lived in North America before the arrival of European colonizers. Many thousands lived in Lenapehoking, the vast homeland of the Lenni-Lenape, who were the first inhabitants of what is now called eastern Pennsylvania and parts of New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.
Princeton stands on part of the ancient homeland and traditional territory of the Lenape people. In 1756, the College of New Jersey erected Nassau Hall with no recorded consultation with the Lenni-Lenape peoples.
Treaties and forced relocation dispersed Lenape-Delaware to Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma. We acknowledge the violence of settler colonialism and pay respect to Lenape peoples past, present, and future and their continuing presence in the homeland and throughout the Lenape diaspora.
For more information, see the websites of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Princeton (NAISIP), Natives at Princeton and Princeton Indigenous Advocacy Coalition.
Lewis Center for the Arts
Chair: Judith Hamera
Executive Director: Marion Friedman Young
Director of Program in Theater: Jane Cox
Producing Artistic Director, Theater And Music Theater Season: Elena Araoz
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