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Recently, I went to my friend\u2019s house to help him set up for a party. He and his roommates were getting a little drowsy, so they put on their hype song. As they started belting out Wicked\u2019s<\/em> \u201cDefying Gravity,\u201d I realized just how much I missed listening to musicals. I wouldn\u2019t exactly call them my \u201chype songs,\u201d but they certainly have something to them that really gets me energized. I missed that. From the moment Elphaba picked up the tempo and hit those beautiful high notes we all know and love, I knew I was hooked. I found myself joining in, pretending I was a much better singer than I am, serenading my friend.<\/p>\n That night, I opened my computer and went straight to my musicals playlist. I turned up the volume to full blast, hit shuffle, and let the music begin. I sang and danced to myself until I couldn\u2019t keep my eyes open anymore. Then, I went to sleep with the sounds of Finding Neverland<\/em> floating around my mind. When I woke up the next morning, I did it again.<\/p>\n And again.<\/p>\n And again.<\/p>\n Instead of jumping around to One Direction or Justin Bieber\u2019s new albums, I listened to musicals all week. And I\u2019m not even the slightest bit upset.<\/p>\n You see, there\u2019s something very magical about putting on the soundtrack to your favorite musical. You can listen to a whole story in just one sitting. You can feel the ups and downs of the characters without even watching their motions. Musicals have the ability to just make you happy, and as my roommate puts it, \u201cthere\u2019s something about singing along that\u2019s different than singing along to normal music.\u201d Who doesn\u2019t want a change up every once in a while, anyway?<\/p>\n So whether you were first turned on to musicals watching Julie Andrews run down a hill with her arms outstretched, or Gene Kelly\u2019s umbrella twirling and splashing got you on your feet, a musical has the ability to make a bad day better. There\u2019s one out there for everyone, so go find the one that makes you smile and make it yours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, I went to my friend\u2019s house to help him set up for a party. He and his roommates were getting a little drowsy, so they put on their hype song. As they started belting out Wicked\u2019s \u201cDefying Gravity,\u201d I realized just how much I missed listening to musicals. I wouldn\u2019t exactly call them my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[192,843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6943"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6949,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6943\/revisions\/6949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}