CI 5472: Genre Analysis

Musical Genre Powerpoint:

http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dfv8576_0sqxwzpf7

Don’t Stop Believin’ – The Musical
She’s just a small town girl … living in a lonely world
A city boy born and raised in south Detroit meets a small town girl on a midnight train going anywhere and they sing a romantic duet about their life in a lonely world. Despite the smell of wine and cheap perfume, these two share a night that goes on and on and on and on, which leads to another song. Later, the city boy joins some street gamblers and shakes dice, and sings when he realizes some were born to win, some to lose, and he was born to sing the blues. In the face of such adversity, he finds encouragement in the smiling faces, well-choreographed dance moves, and chorus of voices of the people of south Detroit who tell him “Don’t stop believin’ …”