Passing Strange
Belasco Theatre
Previews Began: February 8, 2008
Opening Night: February 28, 2008
Closing Night: July 20, 2008
Music: Stew
Heidi Rodewald
Lyrics: Stew
Book: Stew
A young middle-class black American man travels from Los Angeles to Amsterdam to Berlin in the search for himself and a place to call home.
Musical Numbers
Act One
Prologue (We Might Play All Night)………Narrator,
Heidi,
The Band
Baptist Fashion Show…………..Narrator, Ensemble
Blues Revelation/Freight Train……………Narrator,
Ensemble
Arlington Hill……………………………………….Narrator
Sole Brother……………………….Youth, Terry, Sherry
Must’ve Been High……………………………….Narrator
Mom Song……………..Narrator, Mother, Ensemble
Merci Beaucoup, M. Godard…Narrator, Ensemble
Amsterdam…………………………………………Ensemble
Keys………………………….Marianna, Youth, Narrator
We Just Had Sex………….Youth, Marianna, Renata
Act Two
May Day………………………………Narrator, Ensemble
Surface……………………………………………..Mr. Venus
Damage…………………………….Narrator, Desi, Youth
Identity……………………………………………………Youth
The Black One……………………..Narrator, Ensemble
Come Down Now………………………………Heidi, Desi
Work the Wound……………………….Youth, Narrator
Passing Phase……………………………Youth, Narrator
Love Like That……………………………Narrator, Heidi