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    New Concert: I'm Beginning To See The Light - Jazz Standard

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    This document provides the setlist and notes for a new concert. It includes 12 songs from jazz standards and musical theater, as well as introductions by the performer between songs about their history performing in New York City and experiences with vocal coaching. The concert concludes with an encore of a Stevie Wonder song and potential additional performance.

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    New Concert: I'm Beginning To See The Light - Jazz Standard

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    This document provides the setlist and notes for a new concert. It includes 12 songs from jazz standards and musical theater, as well as introductions by the performer between songs about their history performing in New York City and experiences with vocal coaching. The concert concludes with an encore of a Stevie Wonder song and potential additional performance.

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    This document provides the setlist and notes for a new concert. It includes 12 songs from jazz standards and musical theater, as well as introductions by the performer between songs about their history performing in New York City and experiences with vocal coaching. The concert concludes with an encore of a Stevie Wonder song and potential additional performance.

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    New Concert: I'm Beginning To See The Light - Jazz Standard

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    William Raveau
    This document provides the setlist and notes for a new concert. It includes 12 songs from jazz standards and musical theater, as well as introductions by the performer between songs about their history performing in New York City and experiences with vocal coaching. The concert concludes with an encore of a Stevie Wonder song and potential additional performance.

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    New Concert

    OPENER:
    I’m Beginning to See the Light - Jazz Standard

    Thank you thank you. Thanks for coming out. Performing in Boyne City is
    truly one of my favorite things to do.
    I want to take this opportunity to welcome all of you to freely move about the
    cabin. Get another drink. Chat. Enjoy yourselves.

    SONG:
    So Little Time, So Much to Do - Jazz Standard
    [opportunity for solos amongst band, I introduce band members after each
    solo]

    SONG:
    Nice ’n’ Easy - Jazz Standard

    As, I think, most of you know, I spent 3 years in New York City.
    Over the course of those 3 years I held 6 different jobs, as many as three at
    the same time. I lived in Brooklyn for almost two years - a block from where
    Barbra Streisand went to high school. And about a year in Harlem. Essentially
    New York — you can think of it like a flow chart. You have New York City.
    That is comprised of 5 boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens,
    and Staten Island). Each of those 5 boroughs are broken up into
    neighborhoods. For example in Brooklyn, you have Prospect Park, Flatbush
    (where I lived), Williamsburgh, BedStuy, Dumbo, the list goes on. Now
    Harlem is essentially the area of Manhattan directly above Central Park.
    Central Harlem, where I lived, was an incredible neighborhood. The
    restaurants were incredible, the entertainment, the life. It was amazing. Not
    everything is amazing. This song about Washington Heights - a
    neighborhood not far from Harlem - I think encapsulates a few of those
    things…

    SONG:
    Washington Heights, from Fugitive Songs: A Song Cycle
    [going to rewrite that ‘ghetto’ line…]

    While living in New York, I had an incredible vocal coach. His name was
    Michael Pesce. He was part vocal coach, part therapist… he was great. He
    also introduced me to some incredible music. Some I’d heard before but not
    appreciated, some I’d never heard but fell in love with. I’m going to share a
    few of those songs with you now.

    SONG:
    Lush Life, by Nat King Cole

    SONG:
    Cheer Up Charlie, from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

    Can you believe that last song is nestled into Willy Wonka and the Chocolate
    factory??? I always skipped that scene when I watched that movie. It’s
    quickly become a favorite song of mine.

    This next section of the evening I like to call: “Songs I Have Performed That
    You Probably Didn’t See”.

    My very first gig in NYC was a cabaret at the Laurie Beechman Theater - a
    small cabaret venue in the basement of a restaurant. It was 2017.
    SONG:
    I Chose Right, from Baby

    In the summer of 2016, I did my first professional theater gig (AKA, I got paid
    for what I did) was Hair at the now defunct DATC. While I didn’t perform this
    song in the show, I wanted to sing it because it is, in my opinion, one of the
    most perfect musical theaters songs - if not songs in general - called “Frank
    Mills”

    SONG:
    Frank Mills, from Hair

    SONG:
    Hey There, from The Pajama Game

    SONG:
    A New Town is a Blue Town, from The Pajama Game
    [direct segue into…]

    Some sort of dialogue here to segue into next song… not sure.

    SONG:
    Vessel, by Ben Moss
    [should have sheet music next week, but here’s a YouTube link https://
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=36dFALDmCKw]
    Now I get to shamelessly plug my album which is being sold [xxx wherever
    it’ll be at the venue xxx]. I’d love to sing a song from the album.

    SONG:
    The Lady Must Be Mad, from Illyria

    Dialogue about reaching the end of the evening. Fakeout finale.

    SONG:
    They Just Keep Moving The Line, from Smash

    Dialogue about this is my last song of the night.

    SONG:
    Sail Away, by Noel Coward

    ENCORE:
    You and I, by Stevie Wonder
    And/or
    Glory of Love - Jazz Standard

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