(metallic thunks)
Hi, I'm Bonnie Milligan, and I'm making my Broadway debut
playing Princess Pamela in "Head over Heels,"
and this is my Broadway bucket list.
So, my first number is Pennywise from Urinetown,
"It's a Privilege to Pee".
And I first discovered this show, actually,
cause I came on a trip to the city with my mom
to see "Thoroughly Modern Millie"
cause I had fallen in love with the soundtrack.
And I read an article in "People" magazine about
that she had a brother, Hunter Foster,
who's also in a Broadway show.
And I thought that was so cute (laughs)
and I really wanted to see it.
So my mom and I went and got tickets to "Urinetown",
"Thoroughly Modern Millie", "Man of La Mancha".
But when we went, I fell absolutely in love with it
cause it was so funny and Pennywise just cracks me up
and that's something I can definitely see myself playing
a little down the line cause why not.
Let's revive "Urinetown".
(piano intro)
♪ Times are hard, our cash is tight, you've got no right ♪
♪ I've heard it all before ♪
♪ Just this once is once too much ♪
♪ Cause once they've onced, they'll want to once once more ♪
♪ I run the only toilet in this part of town, you see ♪
♪ So if you've gotta go, you've got to go through me ♪
♪ It's a privilege to pee ♪
♪ Water's worth its weight in gold these days ♪
♪ No more bathrooms like in olden days ♪
♪ You come here and pay a fee ♪
♪ For the privilege to pee ♪
♪ Twenty years we've had the drought ♪
♪ And our reservoirs have all dried up ♪
♪ I take my baths now in a coffee cup ♪
♪ I boil what's left of it for tea ♪
♪ And it's a privilege to pee ♪
♪ The politicians, in their wisdom saw ♪
♪ That there should be a law ♪
♪ The politicians taxed the toilets ♪
♪ And made illegal ♪
♪ Public urination and defecation ♪
Next up I have, of course,
Mama Rose is on my bucket list.
I mean, how can she not for a belter such as I.
Um, I love it because, well I love the whole show
but the character is so, there's so much acting possibility
and so I can't wait to play her one day.
And I saw Patti LuPone and it rocked my world. So, yeah.
(piano intro)
♪ Goodbye to blueberry pie ♪
♪ Good riddance to all the socials I had to go to ♪
♪ All the lodges I had to play ♪
♪ All the Shriners I said hello to ♪
♪ Hey L.A. I'm coming your way ♪
♪ Some people sit on their butts ♪
♪ Got the dream, yeah but not the guts ♪
♪ That's living for some people ♪
♪ For some humdrum people I suppose ♪
♪ Well they can stay and rot ♪
♪ But not Rose ♪
And closing it out, "Company". Female Bobby.
I've always wanted to do female Bobby.
I'm excited they're doing this in the West End now.
But I love Stephen Sondheim so much with all my heart.
I think we all do.
And I, especially as I get older and
I get more and more attached to "Company",
I understand it a little bit more.
Come from the Midwest, so I should be, like,
married with seven children by now.
(Laughs) But I am not.
And so I just, the journey I think is so beautiful and rich
and I would love to kind of dive into it.
(piano intro)
♪ Somebody, need me too much ♪
♪ Somebody, know me too well ♪
♪ Somebody, pull me up short ♪
♪ And put me through hell ♪
♪ And give me support ♪
♪ For being alive ♪
♪ Make me alive ♪
♪ Make me confused ♪
♪ Mock me with praise ♪
♪ Let me be used ♪
♪ Vary my days ♪
♪ Cause alone is alone ♪
♪ Not alive ♪
♪ Somebody, crowd me with love ♪
♪ Somebody, force me to care ♪
♪ Somebody, make me come through ♪
♪ I'll always be there ♪
♪ As frightened as you ♪
♪ To help us survive ♪
♪ Being alive ♪