(dripping in a bucket)
Hey, I'm Jay Armstrong Johnson
and I will be at Birdland on Monday, February 6th at 7 p.m.
and I'm about to sing a few of dream roles
on my Broadway bucket list.
The first tune I'm singing today is Something's Coming
from West Side Story, my all time favorite musical.
I actually played Baby John
when I was 14 years old back home in Texas
but Tony has always been a dream role of mine.
Something's Coming
(piano music)
♪ Could be ♪
♪ Who knows ♪
♪ There's something due any day ♪
♪ I will know right away, soon as it shows ♪
♪ I'd make him cannonballin' down from the sky ♪
♪ Gleam in it's eye ♪
♪ Bright as a rose ♪
♪ Who knows ♪
♪ It's only just out of reach ♪
♪ Down the block on a beach ♪
♪ Under a tree ♪
♪ I've got a feelin' there's a miracle due ♪
♪ Gonna come true, coming to me ♪
(piano music)
The second tune I've got for you today is
As Long As You're Mine from Wicked, Fiyero's verse.
Fiyero's always been a dream role
of mine ever since I heard the cast album back in the day.
People tell me I'm too short to play Fiyero
but Norbert Leo Butz is 5'7", I'm 5'9" so take that.
♪ Maybe I'm brainless ♪
♪ Maybe I'm wise ♪
♪ But you've got me seeing ♪
♪ Through different eyes ♪
♪ Somehow I've fallen ♪
♪ Under your spell ♪
♪ And somehow I'm feeling ♪
♪ It's up that I fell ♪
♪ And every moment ♪
♪ As long as you're mine ♪
♪ I'll wake up my body ♪
♪ And make up for lost time ♪
♪ Say there's no future ♪
♪ For us as a pair ♪
♪ And though I may know ♪
♪ I don't care ♪
♪ As long as you're mine ♪
My third tune I've got is No More from Into the Woods.
When I was in the seventh grade,
my friend Jessica directed a very, very, very, very, very
small production of Into the Woods
and cast me as a 13 year old Baker
and I've been wanting to play the role every since then.
And Chip Zien, the original Baker is going
to be a guest artist at my Birdland show so I thought
it would be quite apropros to sing a little Baker for you.
(piano music)
♪ No more giants ♪
♪ Waging war ♪
♪ Can't we just pursue our lives ♪
♪ With our children and our wives ♪
♪ 'Til that happier day arrives ♪
♪ How do you ignore ♪
♪ All the witches ♪
♪ All the curses ♪
♪ All the wolves, all the lies, the false hopes, ♪
♪ The goodbyes, the reverses ♪
♪ All the wondering what even worse is still in store ♪
♪ All the children ♪
♪ All the giants ♪
♪ No more ♪
(piano music)