My Life: The Musical (27 page)

Copyright © 2008 by Maryrose Wood

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wood, Maryrose.
  My life, the musical / Maryrose Wood. — 1st ed.
     p.  cm.
  Summary: Sixteen-year-old Emily Pearl’s obsession with Broadway shows, and one musical in particular, lands her in trouble in school and at home, but it might also allow her and her best friend, Philip, to find a dramatic solution to their problems.

eISBN: 978-0-375-84640-3
[1. Musicals—Fiction. 2. Theater—Fiction. 3. High Schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Broadway (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.W8524My 2008
[Fic]—dc22
                                                                         2007015034

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Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Overture

1. Rock Island

2. Sur La Plage

3. Don’t Rain On My Parade

4. Goodnight

5. The Telephone Hour

6. Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend

7. Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina

8. Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats

9. Sixteen Going on Seventeen

10. Don’t Tell Mama

11. Soon It’s Gonna Rain

12. A Book Report on Peter Rabbit

13. And I am Telling You

14. I Believe in You

15. Keep it Gay

16. Rose’s Turn

17. Anyone can Whistle

18. The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York

19. How are Things in Glocca Morra?

20. A Trip to the Library

21. Climb Every Mountain

22. Who am I?

23. It’s A Helluva Fix We’re In

24. Emily’s Bat Mitzvah (Flashback Sequence)

25. Miracle of Miracles

26. There’s No Business Like Show Business

27. Never be Enough

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Author’s Note

About the Author

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