Victoria Wood is writing and directing That Day We Sang, about the 1920s Manchester Children's Choir, which will open at the Manchester Opera House.
When my future wife and I met on a river boat on the Hudson in 1962, we sang our way through half the major musicals of the 40s and 50s, including almost the complete catalog of Rodgers and Hammerstein.
And then we all sang the, you know, Mr. Rogers' theme song, the whole audience, and it was really fantastic.
That's why they sang "We Shall Overcome, " because it was hard.
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"He was away for over 70 years and he took us back into the theatre, sat down in the seat where there used to be a bench and as he was sitting there he suddenly remembered a song which a pantomime dame had sung to him and he sang it for us and we recorded it, " said Mr Morris.
We all got in a half circle and sang to each other for a couple of hours.
Mr. OLIN THOMAS (Executive Director, Affirmation): When people in Affirmation get together, people want to sing the songs that they sang in primary, which is what we call Sunday School for children.
They sang along, and so did I, and as we all did Bette Midler flapped her arms like they were wings, managing to look not silly at all, but as graceful as a ballerina.
The crowd sang the national anthem, which contains the prayer "may we dwell in unity, peace and liberty".
We loved the complexity of his lyrics and how he spoke the lines and sang them in places.
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"It is a must that we create a presence in New York in order to step into global market, " said Sang-Pyo Hong, chief director at Korea Creative Content Agency.
The Man in Black abused pills and liquor and sang in a deep baritone about the outlaw life, but that's not who we meet at first.
We're well reminded of the Obama people who today express doubts about a special prosecutor but sang a very different song when Bush administration folks were the target.
"And we'll go up, up, up, but I'll climb a little higher, " sang Jason Mraz, Anna Faris and Rainn Wilson.
Ron, you know, we recall how on this day five years ago some members of Congress gathered on the steps of the Capitol and sang God Bless America - Democrats and Republicans.
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