congrats that you get to see Will Roland's cabaret show!!! How was it? (I wish I could see😭)... so anyway what r top 5 songs you really enjoyed hearing him sing at the show? And what was the best part of the show?
it was a brilliant delightful surprising vivacious performance of cabaret for an evening shared in a basement!! so so so fun & it really couldn't go wrong whether you were familiar with any of the songs (i was) or they were new/er to you (also true for me, for most of them even! i have not heard of music) & either way you know you're getting this Fresh Specific Will Roland Performance of each number, as a cabaret performance, tonight, in this show, it's Singular. to say anything i have to say it pretty off-the-cuff & so it's not going to be very Effective & Efficient but, well, it was a great time as you might expect & of course a Correct Decision to immediately pounce on going, as well as ending up going Both Nights lol. i'm all about an Immediate Revisit even for things that aren't live & aren't as Exactly Very Enjoyable Personally already. it was a Range of songs even around an engaging Central Theme / Thread flexibly & humorously but earnestly followed, & you know we're getting that Will Roland Performance with the idiosyncrasy & the Range he himself has in Singing & Acting and that of course he was Acting, Performing through all of them, different moods & Characters & Situations & Styles but he was so on it, always giving it everything As Usual, ft. Choices!! as jared weiss points out. vivacity like "and now for a moment with this party favor horn noisemaker. now for a moment with this kazoo." the little intervals of Dialogue / Introducing Songs which were performance & funny & bits & In Earnest still b/c that's simply the Mode & Medium of the hour, doing a Cabaret Performance as a way to share a moment talking with the audience telling us something / a story for that hour. exciting & fun & funny & impressive & Alive all the way through
not good at picking faves! didn't know the titles / original artists of most of these beforehand lol & already wouldn't have The Setlist just immediately in my mind here but it's just easy to start listing things. i can come back to this too, They Can't Stop You from revisiting your posts going "and another thing." thanks for sending this ask also as a prompt to just get more into specifics anyways too
one of the earliest ones, 1999, i like may have heard it ever before but i wasn't very familiar! just a "this famous beloved iconic classic" & i'm like whomst. but it's not a problem, oh no, hearing something for the first time as a performance you're getting live & in-person at the absolute treat of a Cabaret Experience We Get To Have! will was all over it like gotta be a lively energetic fully in it number that was fairly extensive & demanding & he was On It!!!! a song about when he was 10 but more so an Homage to that b/c he wasn't really able to party like it's 1999 in 1999 & the song is from before he was born. it was A Party. and the audience was on the participation lmao, not having any boom mics to pick up the sound from the house directly, but there's always more volume than comes through in the livestream incl in hooting & hollering clapping & cheering after the songs
"this famous beloved iconic classic" never heard "scenes from an italian restaurant" before!! like hell yeah lol glad to have this be an introduction Performance then. Acting all throughout, delivering yet another tour de force, kazoo!!! And The Family Is fine. like yeah banger here enjoying every Shift, & the range! the performing!! delivered!!! a great time a great time what fun we had. in homage to Nostalgia For Growing Up In Long Island, every Connection of the songs to A Life With This Perspective Now On The Passage Of Time was a delight
yknow, just, every theatre song. you're the first person to perform meadowlark To Me. so big so small is Not new & unfamiliar to me but sure been a hot minute since i heard it (guy who like literally the day before relistened to / reViewed a performance of it in full for the first time in forever(tm)) & yeah sure talk about how Yes things are different when you become a new parent, hearing it live & in person for the first time, By Will Roland, in earnest, at least from my vantage point on friday i was like oh this is emotional that it's also emotional For Him & he's pretty flushed beyond like [It's Hot doing this] & i wonder if he might cry, oh wait, saw the Gleam of a tear track that is already upon his face / he already is, just singing through it as amazingly as ever lol....i love play rehearsal!!! By Will Roland, a delightful concept Delightfully Performed like you Would think it's a delight & it sure is. that after this there was like "bmc -> bootlegs -> don't get caught filming bootlegs is the One Definite Thing!!" where as soon as he said that i went HA HA b/c i thought of the [will roland catches a bootlegger] video & That Is In Fact Where He Was Going With That. maybe Somewhere That's Green is my fave among The Theatre Songs Performed but i dunno, i never have Faves definitely, but it's just such a treat every time (lies!! re: songs you've never heard out of my mouth. not live & in-person anyway, Probably, but yippeee now that's Twice you can experience recorded instances of him performing this song) like i dunno you just can't go wrong & he's singing & acting it beautifully like Yes will roland somewhere that's green (Yes that we live in a post- finally, will roland as seymour krelborn society)
wasn't familiar with the song "secret o' life" by james taylor! dunno if i've ever heard it!! a will roland downtempo but still in its way cheerful song performed in cabaret is so beautiful to me, thinking of Something So Right from losersongs, which i Was familiar with, but enjoyed only more for its Will Roland Performance. strongly resonating with will's Theme of The Evening here & sitting there being like Yknow Yeah!! about it was just very good & it does turn out true about how you might maybe even be moved at some point this evening. the whole thing was moving but i sure was like :'] here i am musing & enjoying being here glad i'm here appreciative i'm here & it Is just a ride you might as well enjoy & time isn't really real it's just your point of view, how do you feel?
the origin of love, surprise, theatre song!! i May have heard it before but yeah once again unfamiliar, a coda, a One More Song, and he rocks out goes full tilt earnest passionate performance once again after giving us a whole hour of that, thank you king!!! amazing one more moment to share this evening, and then this evening. why not. hell fucking yes
i was also there with people i knew, from acquaintanceships to barging in on people like Hey Are You From Summer Stock (yes!) Hey It's Me From Other Times Just Saying Hey! & starting up a chat with will's mom as i think she was probably just sidling by our table b/c It's An Intimate Venue but on the basis also of having looked at each other the evening prior from 6 ft away as she walked past & laughed in delight about my loser geek whatever tee & i lagged in recognizing her but also need a moment to work up to saying fuckall to Icons lmao. but then i end up Pouncing, like as she just walked by, but she immediately starts [classic mom!] chatting about This One (will, not immediately present) when he was a tiny little thing lmao & isn't he great! or he's okay, am i right. & chatting with her outside again total Parents Mode ft. bill roland's dad antics & this is Evening Two when i'm also seeing it meeting a Co-Blogger in person for the first time and wouldn't you know it another Mutual also in person for the first time and we're all getting a real kick out of it i'd say, sharing an experience. is just me getting started. it was very excellent thank you, give us a second, will roland will do another cabaret solo show 12 years after his first one & we'll be able to pull up to it & clap & cheer & get a kick (Boosted, is i infer the meaning in this saying)
