Passing Strange - Song List

Song List

Act 1
  • "Prologue"
    • "We Might Play All Night" — Narrator and the Band
    • "Colored Paradise" — Narrator and Band
  • "Baptist Fashion Show" — Narrator, Band and Ensemble
  • "Blues Revelation; Freight Train":
    • "Listening is Waiting" † — Heidi (from the Band) and Narrator
    • "Church Blues Revelation" — Reverend Jones, Narrator and Ensemble
    • "Music is the Freight Train in which God Travels" — Narrator and Ensemble
  • "Edwina Williams" — Edwina and Narrator
  • "Arlington Hill" †; "Everything's Alright" — Narrator; Narrator and Ensemble
  • "Sole Brother" — Youth, Terry and Sherry
  • "Must've Been High" † — Narrator
  • "Mom Song"; "Philistines" — Narrator, Mother and Ensemble; Youth and Ensemble
  • "Merci Beaucoup, M. Godard" — Narrator and Stewardesses
  • "Amsterdam" — Band and Ensemble
  • "Keys":
    • "Keys #1 (Marianna)" — Marianna and Youth
    • "Keys #2 (Narrator)" — Narrator
    • "It's Alright" — Narrator and Ensemble
  • "We Just Had Sex" — Youth, Marianna and Renata
  • "Paradise":
    • "Paradise/Stoned" ‡ — Youth, Marianna and Ensemble
    • "Keys (Reprise)" † — Youth and Narrator
    • "Paradise (Reprise)/Starting to Feel Real" ‡ — Youth, Marianna, Band and Ensemble
Act 2
  • "May Day":
    • "Berlin: A Black Hole with Taxis" — Narrator
    • "May Day (There's a Riot Goin' Down)" † — Narrator, Heidi, Youth, Nowhaus and Ensemble
    • "Desi" † — Narrator, Youth, Desi and Ensemble
    • "Are You Ready to Explode?" — Narrator and Ensemble
  • "Surface (Mr. Venus's Riot Cabaret)":
    • "What's Inside is Just a Lie" — Mr. Venus
    • "Are You Ready to Explode? (Reprise)" — Mr. Venus, Youth and Ensemble
  • "The System Does All Kinds of Damage" † — Narrator, Desi and Youth
  • "Identity" — Youth
  • "The Black One" — Narrator and Ensemble
  • "Come Down Now":
    • "Listening is Waiting (Reprise)" † — Heidi
    • "Come Down Now" — Desi and Heidi
    • "Starting to Feel Real (Reprise)" — Narrator, Desi, Heidi and Ensemble
  • "Youth's Unfinished Song" — Youth
  • "Work the Wound" — Narrator
  • "Passing Phase" — Youth and Narrator
  • "Cue Music (Is It Alright?)" † — Narrator and Mother
  • "Love Like That" — Narrator and Heidi
  • Encore: "It's Alright" — All

† In the staged performance, this song is heavily interspersed with or broken up by dialogue and/or spoken narration.
‡ The two titles here enclosed within a single pair of quotation marks and separated by a slash refer to two songs that play in counterpoint.

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