Nine People's Favorite Thing - Music and Lyrics by Jeff Bowen 

I love the amount of joy on all of their faces (especially Heidi's) when they sing this. They look at each other so lovingly and that's really beautiful.

MY GOD YES!!!!! REVIVAL PLEASE!!!

I'm currently a "content creator" as they say nowadays and this song has helped me so much lately. It's hard to not compare yourself to others, but you just gotta commit to creating something you want to see and there will be 9 other people out there

when you see this was uploaded approx ten years later after their og run this hits you good

Best mark of a performer: when they turn to their friends and say "YOU YOU YOU" before they take their own bow.

This takes me back to my uni days. I binge listened to this cast recording so much ❤

What a joy to see this. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing.

I love this song.... it makes me feel better along with the song 'Die vampire, Die'

Just great to see these enormously talented artists perform live together. What a privilege. And turned out so beautifully. They all look fabulous, but I’ve got to say Susan is absolutely gorgeous!!

I love this song so bloody much! Someone said something earlier, the phrase "we'll rock hard with only four chairs" popped into my head and I wound up here. Delightful! Also, props for shouting out "The Rink". Kander & Ebb are my homeboys and that show is underrated.

I really like hearing this song with new instruments, and the harmonies are AMAZING!!! Love [tos]!!

this is such a great attitude for artist to take and has become my favorite song because of it

I just played Hunter! Love this show!

rediscovering this music after so long... thought I was so cool in high school since this was my favorite musical instead of all the other theater kids liking les mis and wicked (still awesome of course). great writing, great voices, thank you for creating this masterpiece

I am so loving this!

Woo hoo! LOVE IT!!!

chills

Missed you crazy kids!

Hunter is giving major daddy vibes and I think I’m falling in love

It sounds super weird with orchestrations aside from piano

We can either follow our instinct Or take advice from every joker We can either be distinct Or wind up merely mediocre But not me Not me When we set out to write this musical We said we’d write a show that we wanna see We knew we’d never please everyone Remember that day at Gristedes You said to me You said to me I’d rather be nine people’s favorite thing Than a hundred people’s ninth favorite thing Nine peoples favorite thing Than a hundred people’s ninth favorite thing HUNTER Yeah, you’re right, Jeffy let’s not compromise Let’s keep making something we’ve never seen A risk was taken with ‘On the Town’ And look what happened Betty and Adolph burst Onto the scene JEFF AND HUNTER A shout out to Comden and Green And when Bock and Harnick were writing ‘Tenderloin’ They were taking a risk to write a show about whores When Kander and Ebb were working on the Rink I’d like to think at some point; John looked at Fred and said I’d rather be nine people’s favorite thing Than a hundred people’s ninth favorite thing JEFF, HUNTER, SUSAN, AND HEIDI Nine people’s favorite thing than a hundred people’s ninth favorite thing HEIDI When you handed me the first draft of this show I’ll admit I was a little bit ‘what the fuck?’ But I’m not giving up on you guys until all of us have learned to knit On the bus and truck On the bus and truck And who says four chairs and a keyboard Can’t make a musical We’re enough with only that keyboard We’re okay with only four chairs We’ll be fine with only four chairs We’ll rock hard with only four chairs JEFF, HUNTER, SUSAN, AND HEIDI Ahhh-ah Oooo-ah Ahhh-ah Oooo-ahhhhhhh SUSAN I am eight years old in Ohio It is time for the annual church bazaar There’s a cake-baking contest I am going to be the big star But I don’t want to make a German chocolate And a seven-layer I’ll never complete So I show up with pride this morning With a tray of rice-crispie treats And they try to push them aside Say that they are too strange to compete And sure, most of the judges award the red velvet But one picks the rice-crispie treats Let our show be the rice-crispie treat I’d rather be nine people’s favorite thing Than a hundred peoples ninth favorite thing SUSAN AND HEIDI Nine people’s favorite thing Than a hundred people’s ninth favorite thing JEFF, HUNTER, SUSAN, AND HEIDI Those nine people will tell nine people Then we’ll have eighteen people loving the show Then eighteen people could grow into Five-hundred and twenty-five-thousand, six-hundred people Loving our show JEFF AND HUNTER And maybe someday if we’re lucky enough We’ll all be in a studio recording the show JEFF, HUNTER, SUSAN, AND HEIDI And ten years from now when we play the cast album This track on the CD Will remind us of why we’d rather be Nine peoples favorite thing Than a hundred peoples ninth favorite thing Nine people’s favorite thing Than a hundred people’s ninth favorite thing JEFF AND HUNTER So the decision’s made And we’re on our way And we may lose or maybe we might Be nine people’s favorite thing HEIDI AND SUSAN Nine people’s favorite JEFF, HUNTER, SUSAN, AND HEIDI When we open tonight Tonight

If Jacob, Ashleigh, or Caitlin see this comment, they'll probably say "Wow."