I was a Shipoopi dancer in the Music Man when I was in the 6th grade!
My whole family performed in this show in 1980!
A jazzy cover from The Music Man and stories of love and marriage
During this show I referenced a line from War and Peace by Tolstoy.
A broadway show was written around the love story of Natasha and Pierre and this song Dust and Ashes immortalized the line I shared.
"They say we are asleep until we fall in love".
Pierre was married to a socialite who was openly cheating on him. Natasha was engaged to a man who had gone to fight in the war and while he was away she was seduced by an evil person.
Natasha and Pierre were two broken people who found love and came together in one of the most passionate love stories in literature.
The Great Comet Music Video: Dust and Ashes featuring Josh Groban
The show written by Dave Malloy used music to depict the story.
He said about this line,
"This is one of the most famous quotes from War & Peace, but it actually doesn’t come from this section of the novel, or even from any of Comet’s characters; it is said by Denisov, a military officer, as he is writing a love letter, very early in the novel (Vol. 1, Pt. 2, Ch. 4):
“‘You see, my fwiend,’ he said, ‘we sleep when we don’t love. We are childwen of the dust … but one falls in love and one is a God, one is pua’ as on the first day of cweation… .”
More here: https://genius.com/Dave-malloy-dust-and-ashes-lyrics
My Song Covers
My Fandalism Page (you tube has deleted my work for political reasons, so many of my performances were lost)
The love song from my favorite musical!
Paul and Jenny Hatch April 2025
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