Musical Numbers
Note: This is the song list from the original Broadway production
- Prologue/"We Dance" - Storytellers
- "One Small Girl" - Mama Euralie, Tonton Julian, Little Ti Moune, and Storytellers
- "Waiting for Life" - Ti Moune and Storytellers
- "And the Gods Heard Her Prayer" - Asaka, Agwe, Erzulie, and Papa Ge
- "Rain" - Agwe and Storytellers
- "Pray" - Ti Moune, Mama Euralie, Tonton Julian, Guard and Storytellers
- "Forever Yours" - Ti Moune, Daniel and Papa Ge
- "The Sad Tale of the Beauxhommes" - Armand and Storytellers )
- "Ti Moune"- Ti Moune, Mama Euralie, Tonton Julian
- "Mama Will Provide" - Asaka and Storytellers
- "Waiting for Life" (Reprise) - Ti Moune
- "Some Say" - Storytellers
- "The Human Heart" - Erzulie and Storytellers
- "Pray" (Reprise) - Storytellers
- "Some Girls" - Daniel
- "The Ball" - Andrea, Daniel, Ti Moune, and Storytellers
- "When We Are Wed" - Andrea, Daniel and Ti Moune
- "Forever Yours" (Reprise) - Papa Ge, Ti Moune, Erzulie, and Storytellers
- "A Part of Us" - Mama Euralie, Tonton Julian, Little Ti Moune, and Storytellers
- "Why We Tell the Story" - Storytellers
Cut songs include "Come Down From the Tree" and "When Daniel Marries". "Come Down From the Tree", was a song for Mama Euralie; it is included in several recordings, including Audra McDonald's How Glory Goes.
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