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The World Goes \'Round

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Sometimes you’re happy, sometimes you’re sad, But the world goes ’round…”

Kander and Ebb penned these words in a memorable song. These words, “the world goes ’round,” are a catchphrase for something that either continues to happen as a matter of course, or something that happens in spite of the odds, or perhaps it refers to something that can’t be changed and/or keeps reoccurring.

We have chosen the idea that something keeps reoccurring. Our Earth has known conflict since civilization began. We are focusing our theme for “The World Goes ‘Round” on three periods of conflict in American history from the 1900’s-WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. However, this is not going to be a war musical. Our hope is to show different aspects of these conflicts: The hopes of a wounded vet proposing to his girl; the physical pain of dancers preparing for a USO show; the Baby Boom of the early ’50’s; roller skating as a form of R&R; the vet in the hospital bed who can’t remember his wife; the soldier who is caught in the web of drugs and sees no escape.

The time periods will overlap, and the songs will not be in chronological order. This shows that time continues to go around and around, and the conflicts continue to come around and around, time and time again. “And the world goes ’round and ’round and ’round and ’round….”

 

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