(bucket clanging)
Hi guys, I'm Matt Doyle
and I'm here to sing three dream roles
off my Broadway Bucket List.
So my first song is How Glory Goes
from Floyd Collins.
I was introduced to this song by a friend of mine,
Judd Hardy, in NYU Tisch Summer High Program
when I was just 17 years old
and he was trying to show me that
there are great musicals out there
that aren't just the pop musicals that
I had come to learn in high school
and come to love
And it quickly became my favorite score.
I think the role of Floyd is absolutely incredible.
I love the folk
sounds that are in the score
and I have no idea why it hasn't
been revived in any capacity
or had a proper run in New York City since 1996,
where it first premiered.
So, I am rooted for Floyd Collins to come back
and, you know, I'd like to be involved.
(whooshing)
(soft piano music)
♪ Will I want, will I wish ♪
♪ For all the things I should've done ♪
♪ Longing to finish what I only just begun ♪
♪ Or has a shining truth been waiting there ♪
♪ For all the questions everywhere ♪
♪ In a world of wondering, suddenly you know ♪
♪ And you will always know ♪
♪ Will my mama be there waiting for me ♪
♪ Smiling like the way she does ♪
♪ And holding out her arms ♪
♪ As she calls my name ♪
♪ She will hold me just the same ♪
♪ Only heaven knows how glory goes ♪
♪ What each of us was meant to be ♪
♪ In the starlight, that is what we are ♪
♪ I can see so far ♪
Okay, so the next song is
Flesh Failures from Hair.
My dream role, and I've said this so many times
and I'm including it here today, is Claude from Hair.
I feel the age coming over me.
I wanna play Claude before I get too old.
So, anyone out there doing a great production of Hair,
I'm available (laughing)
I really, really, really wanna play this part.
I say it all the time.
It's a dream of mine, I grew up listening to this score.
When I was a kid, my mom introduced it to me.
It was one of my first introductions
to musical theater and, yeah, to this day
remains, I think, one of my favorite scores
and god these songs
and the songs that Claude get to sing.
I just love this show so much.
(upbeat piano music)
♪ Somewhere ♪
♪ inside something there is a rush ♪
♪ Of greatness who knows what stands in front ♪
♪ Of our lives I fashion my future ♪
♪ On films in space ♪
♪ Silence tells me secretly ♪
♪ Everything ♪
♪ Manchester, England England ♪
♪ Across the Atlantic Sea ♪
♪ And I'm a genius genius ♪
♪ I believe in God ♪
♪ And I believe that God believes ♪
♪ In Claude, that's me ♪
♪ That's me, that's me ♪
Okay, so this last one is interesting.
It was introduced to me by my roommate,
Katie Gasser, when I moved in
with her about nine years ago,
so we're married now
and she'd kill me if I didn't give her credit.
It is Who Can I Turn To from The Roar of the Greasepaint -
The Smell of the Crowd.
Now that was a musical that came out in 1965,
it was written by Anthony Newley.
You might know his work from
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he wrote
Pure Imagination, one of the best songs ever.
And he wrote also so many standards that we all know
and love and so many of them are from this score.
It's an unbelievable score.
I think it should be done again.
I know it's a really, really difficult piece,
it's very strange and out there
and heady, but I think with the right team,
it could come back and I just love this role so much
and I love, love, love this song
and what Anthony Newley created with it.
(fast piano music)
♪ Who can I turn to ♪
♪ When nobody needs me ♪
♪ My heart wants to know ♪
♪ And so I must go where destiny leads me ♪
♪ With no star to guide me ♪
♪ And no one beside me ♪
♪ I'll go on my way ♪
♪ And after the day ♪
♪ The darkness will hide me ♪
♪ And maybe tomorrow ♪
♪ I'll find what I'm after ♪
♪ I'll throw off my sorrow, beg, steal, or borrow ♪
♪ My share of laughter ♪
♪ With you I could learn to ♪
♪ With you on a new day ♪
♪ But who can I turn to if you turn away ♪
(soft piano music)