IF I LOVED YOU

Men always want to be a woman's first love--women like to be a man's last romance. Oscar Wilde

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing spoils the taste of peanut butter like unrequited love. Charlie Brown

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. Pearl Bailey

Everyone seems to have something to say about love - artists, scientists, inventors, cartoon characters and of course composers and lyricists. Regardless of the time or the place, love songs seem to range from passionate to parental; romantic to raunchy; sacred to sarcastic. This show includes songs by Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Amanda McBroom, Irving Berlin, Michel Legrand, Jonathan Larson, Johnny Mercer and others in a musical celebration of love; unrequited, requited and not-so-requited.

Join Bobbi Carrey and Will McMillan to hear what songwriters from Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood have to say on the controversial, universal, and ubiquitous topic of love:
The only thing I fear is losing you. Amanda McBroom
Nothing’s gonna harm you, not while I’m around. Stephen Sondheim
I wish I were in love again. Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
I think they meant it when they said you can’t buy love. Jonathan Larson
Everyone is saying you don’t love me. Irving Berlin
P.S. I love you. Johnny Mercer

THE LIES OF HANDSOME MEN
Francesca Blementhal, 1986
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THE PORTRAIT
Amanda McBroom, 1981
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