Students shine with showtunes
- posted: 30 Oct. 2007
- scrollarts@byui.edu
Five blokes dancing, single girls singing, a mix tape and a bottle of hair spray. These and much more were seen and heard at the Broadway Revue on Oct. 26 in the Kirkham Auditorium.
The first performance, “King of New York,” from Newsies presented five men dancing and singing, using chairs and a table on the stage as props.
Kellyn Briggs, a freshman studying music, sang of a man who said he could love her if she could lose 15 pounds. The audience laughed at some of the funnier lyrics in the song, which included the lines, “Put on size-four pants and make them zip,” and “You take the cake, you really take the cake.”
Sara Robertson, a junior studying speech and theater education, started her performance of “Times Like This,” from Lucky Stiff, with a silent microphone.
“[Activities] got the microphone [working] just in time for the audience to hear the important part,” Robertson said. “I hoped the audience would get the message I was trying to portray, that a lot of people get stuck on the things that really don’t matter in life.”
The audience cheered, applauded and laughed along with the performers.
“It was a really fun atmosphere, stress-free and fun,” Briggs said. “That was the best part: people coming together to appreciate entertainment.”
Whitney Hunsaker sang “Gimme Gimme,” a song from the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie that tells of a girl who wants love.
The final performer, Felipe Queipo, sang “El Sueno Impossible” (The Impossible Dream). As he ended the song, his hands stretched toward the audience while he held the final note and word, “dream.”
“I liked the diversity in the songs, and the costumes complemented all the songs. It had high energy and was very entertaining,” said Jenny Farley, a sophomore studying speech and theater education. 
