Hi, I'm Katie Rose Clarke and I'm currently
playing Glinda in "Wicked" on Broadway
and this is my Broadway bucket list.
(bucket clanks)
So my first song is "Goodbye My Love" from "Ragtime"
and, of course,
the great Marin Mazzie originated the role and,
gone too soon from the community.
But hearing her sing that score was hugely impactful
for me as a young theater student.
And this role in particular is just so empowering for women
especially for me right now,
as a new mom juggling motherhood
and also pursuing theater,
reconciling what it looks like to pursue both passions,
both callings that I feel in my life.
So, this is Mother in "Ragtime."
(soft piano music)
♪ Goodbye my love ♪
♪ God bless you ♪
♪ And I suppose ♪
♪ Bless America too ♪
♪ You have places to discover ♪
♪ Oceans to conquer ♪
♪ You need to know ♪
♪ I'll be there at the window ♪
♪ While you go your way ♪
♪ I accept that ♪
♪ But what of the people ♪
♪ Who stay where they're put ♪
♪ Planted like flowers ♪
♪ With roots underfoot ♪
♪ I know some of those people ♪
♪ Have hearts that would rather ♪
♪ Go journeying on the sea ♪
♪ Tell me what of those people ♪
♪ Whose boundaries chafe ♪
♪ Who marry so bravely ♪
♪ And end up so safe ♪
♪ Tell me how to be someone ♪
♪ Whose heart can explore ♪
♪ While still staying here ♪
♪ Let this be the year ♪
♪ We both travel ♪
♪ Goodbye my love ♪
♪ Journey on ♪
My second song is a song that
I have never preformed before,
so this is a new one,
but it's from "Into the Woods."
It's the baker's wife.
I've auditioned for this show many times
but not as the baker's wife, as Cinderella.
And I've never gotten it.
So maybe that's because I'm supposed
to play the baker's wife.
But I just think she's an awesome chick,
and she's complicated, and makes bad decisions,
and we get to kind of watch her work through that,
and I just love that.
How human she is.
♪ What was that ♪
♪ Was that me ♪
♪ Was that him ♪
♪ Did a prince really kiss me ♪
♪ And kiss me ♪
♪ And did I kiss him back ♪
♪ Was it wrong ♪
♪ Am I mad ♪
♪ Is that all ♪
♪ Does he miss me ♪
♪ Was he suddenly ♪
♪ Getting bored with me ♪
♪ Wake up ♪
♪ Stop dreaming ♪
♪ Stop prancing about the woods ♪
♪ It's not beseeming ♪
♪ What is it about the woods ♪
♪ Back to life, back to sense ♪
♪ Back to child, back to husband ♪
♪ You can't live in the woods ♪
♪ There are vows, there are ties ♪
♪ There are needs, there are standards ♪
♪ There are shouldn'ts and shoulds ♪
♪ Just a moment ♪
♪ One peculiar passing moment ♪
♪ Must it all be either less or more ♪
♪ Either plain or grand ♪
♪ Is it always "or" ♪
♪ Is it never "and" ♪
♪ That's what woods are for ♪
♪ For these moments in the woods ♪
♪ Oh, if life were made of moments ♪
♪ Even now and then a bad one ♪
♪ But if life were only moments ♪
♪ Then you'd never know you had one ♪
♪ First a witch, then a child ♪
♪ Then a prince, then a moment ♪
♪ You can't live in the woods ♪
♪ And to get what you wish ♪
♪ Only just for a moment ♪
♪ These are dangerous woods ♪
♪ Let the moment go ♪
♪ Don't forget it for a moment, though ♪
♪ Just remembering you've had an "and" ♪
♪ When you're back to "or" ♪
♪ Makes the "or" mean more ♪
♪ Than it did before ♪
♪ Now I understand ♪
♪ And it's time to leave the woods ♪
And my third song is,
"The Story Goes On" from "Baby."
And a very quick story,
when I first heard this score,
I was in high school and my high school voice teacher said,
"You have to hear this."
And I used to take the CDs and,
you had the insert that had all the lyrics
so you could like,
I put the hood down on my boombox
and listened to the whole score
and followed along with the lyrics.
And at the time I was like,
"I mean, it's okay, it's fine."
But my same voice teacher who I'm still close with
all these years later, said,
"Look at that again, because now that you have a baby
it's gonna hit you a totally different way."
So I did.
And of course, I'm just like,
sobbing through the whole thing.
So this would be such an incredible role to play one day.
And just getting to sing this song,
it just means so much to me
after walking through those things as a woman now.
And being a mom.
♪ So this is the tale my mother told me ♪
♪ The tale that was much too dull to hold me ♪
♪ So this is the search and the rush ♪
♪ She said would show ♪
♪ Our story goes on ♪
♪ I was young ♪
♪ I forgot that things outlive me ♪
♪ My goal was the kick that life would give me ♪
♪ And now, like a joke ♪
♪ Something moves to let me know ♪
♪ Our story goes on ♪
♪ And all these things I feel, and more ♪
♪ My mother's mother felt ♪
♪ And hers before ♪
♪ A chain of life begun ♪
♪ Upon the shore of some ♪
♪ Dark sea ♪
♪ Has reached to me ♪
♪ And now I can see the chain extending ♪
♪ My child is next ♪
♪ In a line that has no ending ♪
♪ And here am I ♪
♪ Full of life ♪
♪ That her child will feel ♪
♪ When I am long gone ♪
♪ And thus it is ♪
♪ Our story goes on ♪
♪ And on ♪
♪ And all these things I feel, and more ♪
♪ My mother's mother felt ♪
♪ And hers before ♪
♪ A chain of life begun ♪
♪ Upon the shore ♪
♪ Of some primordial sea ♪
♪ Has stretched through time to reach for me ♪
♪ And now I can see the chain extending ♪
♪ My child is next ♪
♪ In a line that has no ending ♪
♪ And here am I ♪
♪ Full of life ♪
♪ That her child will feel ♪
♪ When I am long gone ♪
♪ Yes all that was ♪
♪ Is part of me ♪
♪ As I am part of what's to be ♪
♪ And thus it is ♪
♪ Our story ♪
♪ Goes on ♪
♪ And on ♪