I recently read the book, and I was shocked to see that a lot of these lyrics are taken directly from Pa Tuck's speech in this scene in the book. I had to resist the temptation to just sing what I was reading in the middle of class 😂
This show closed way too soon!!! I love this show and come back to this video all the time! It has such important messages and is so sweetly done! The ending ballet was one of the most beautiful endings to a musical I have ever seen.
I bet you didn’t know that the sun took a shine water She drinks up a bit but floats it up to the sky Now what she takes from our lake will make her a storm cloud that rumbles and tumbles rain From up high, high, high It’s a wheel Winnie This journey of ours Sun to lake to cloud that showers rain back to the lake below And you’ll ride that wheel wherever you go Not a minute or moment is the same The wheel keeps you guessing And everything around you is along for the ride The pond, the bullfrogs, the birch trees, and hound dogs plus people, all people ebb and flow With the tide, tide, tide, It’s a wheel Winnie A ripple in water Girl to wife to mother to daughter Like all you kinfolk Come and gone Can’t stop growing, rowing, changing then moving on Once you drop an anchor, the boat gets stuck and it could stay forever Just floating on top Watching life pass it by Watching life pass it by Just floating up top Just floating up top That’s what us tucks are Just floating stuck Show me how to climb back on the wheel I’d be there slick as a slingshot Prepare to get off at the end And share with someone my spot You can’t have living without dying so you can’t call this living what we got We just are We just be No before No beyond A rowboat anchored in the middle of a pond Do you see now child do you understand? it’s a wheel It’s a wheel Winnie A ripple in water A ripple in water Girl to wife to mother to daughter Girl to wife to mother to daughter Like all you kinfolk Like all your kinfolk Come and gone Come and gone It’s a wheel It’s a wheel Winnie A circle in motion a circle in motion Can’t stop rowing, growing, changing and moving on Can’t stop growing, rowing, changing Can’t stop rowing, growing, and changing then moving on and moving on Can’t stop growing, rowing, and changing then moving on
About two years ago, my language arts class read Tuck Everlasting, and we watched this video in class. It’s crazy, because when I watched it in class that day I was bored by it, but now this musical is one of my favorites.
I would give anything to see this show preformed if love Terrance Mann and the original story it's combined two of my favorite things in the entire world.
This was absolutely amazing!!!! I know that this will be a musical that will always be remembered! I am already in love with the story of Tuck Everlasting and I love the direction you all are taking it by making it a musical! I want to see the show right now! ~Chely
saw this a ouple days ago. I knew what the story was about but no clue on how the music sounded. I loved every minute of it. I had a smile on face teh entire time. watch it!!!
You are so lucky I would love to see Terrance Mann perform live but this would be the show I would kill to see him in because I love the original story
+Kaia Berndt I actually didn't know it was a book! I'll be sure to read it though :) I just found a clip of their rehearsal (just look up "tuck everlasting broadway musical in rehearsal") and I'm already in love with it.
+Hannah Cruz You definitely should read the book! I'm sure the musical is going to be fantastic (very few musicals aren't...), but adaptations rarely hit all the key moments.
Well first, wife fits with the music better then woman does. Secondly, Tuck Everlasting is written in a period of time where girls were expected to get married and have kids, not be independent.
+Emma DiMalanta Pa Tuck has lived one hundred years with a woman who is more than just a wife to him. I think his view of women should be more nuanced than this. I quite like the way 'girl to woman, mother to daughter' fits.
I believe with it that one as everyone said the music but also showing the change and growth within a family bc it says Daughter instead of girl. It's showing how life keeps turning and repeating in some ways so it's going Childhood Womanhood, meaning being grown and finding a husband for that time period Mother, raising a child of her own to follow the wheel Daughter, the cycle begins once more with her child.
