Pronouns 2: The Musical – Act 6: Self

The Story

Welcome to Pronouns 2: The Musical.

Some may ask, “Pronouns?”, but we at A Frank Angle say, “Why not pronouns!”

Why a sequel to Pronouns? Again, “Why not!”

Program

Act 1: My
Act 2: Mine
Act 3: Our
Act 4: Their
Act 5: Your

Act 6: Self

The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back. (Bryant H. McGill, author)

Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self. (Karen Salmansohn, author)

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. (Aldous Huxley, novelist)

If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die. (Maya Angelou, poet)

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. (May Sarton, poet)

This above all; to thine own self be true. (William Shakespeare, dramatist)

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. (Golda Meir, leader)

Guidelines

• Songs must have one of the acceptable words (listed below) in the title
• Acceptable words will be Self, Itself, Herself, Himself, Myself, Ourselves, Yourselves, and Themselves
• Special dispensation will be given to Its songs – but The Producer cautions because It’s is unacceptable

Cautions

• No duplicates songs regardless of artists
• Foreign language equivalents unacceptable
• Beware of Its versus It’s

Production Note

1. To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please
   Include the song title and artist in your text, and
2. Paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.

Announcement

Welcome to the final act of Pronouns 2: The Musical feature Self. Before introducing the opening act, we have a special announcement.

Starting in early January 2019 – probably January 5th – aFa Productions will be providing a new music event: the aFa Weekend Concert Series. This will feature songs from one artist. The Happy New Year post will announce the who will open the series. We can say that the first 5 artists have agreed to the scheduling. However, this does not mean the end of musicals. Actually, we’ve selected the next theme, and see opening in late April or early May.

We had many great songs and artists in our final list to determining the closing act’s opener. Good news that we know the list of available for this act is lengthy. The Act 6 opener will take us back to the early MTV days. Actually, 1984. It’s the title song of a platinum-selling album. Ladies and gentlemen, loud cheers for Laura Branigan with Self Control.

Pronouns 2: The Musical – Act 5: Your

The Story

Welcome to Pronouns 2: The Musical.

Some may ask, “Pronouns?”, but we at A Frank Angle say, “Why not pronouns!”

Why a sequel to Pronouns? Again, “Why not!”

Program

 

Act 1: My
Act 2: Mine
Act 3: Our
Act 4: Their

Act 5: Your

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. (St Jerome, theologian and historian)

Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace. (Christie Brinkley, model)

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. (Swami Sivananda, philosopher)

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. (Albert Einstein, physicist)

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. (Helen Keller, author)

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. (John C. Maxwell, clergyman)

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. (Tom Stoppard, dramatist)

Guidelines

Songs must have Your or Yours in the title

Cautions

• No duplicates songs regardless of artists
• Foreign language equivalents unacceptable

Production Note

• To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please
  Include the song title and artist in your text, and
• Paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.

Announcement

Welcome to Act 5 of Pronouns 2: The Musical! A round of applause for your valiant effort with the difficult challenge in Act 4. With that in mind, a special announcement.

If you thought the last act was difficult, the next act is brutal. Given that songs with Its in the title are few, we are announcing a change. Some of you may have already noticed the change on the program cover.

The key word for Act 6 is Self, which opens up many possibilities.

• Acceptable words will be Self, Itself, Herself, Himself, Myself, Ourselves, Yourselves, and Themselves
• Special dispensation will be given to Its songs – but The Producer cautions because It’s is unacceptable
• Suggestion: Don’t rely on the YouTube title

On to Act 5!

When in our research for the opening act, one immediately stood above the rest for personal reasons. Yes, many of us remember him as a star whose solo career exploded. Many years later, he married a Cincinnatian, so Cincinnati was his home for about 10 years. He frequently visit a casual restaurant near my house. Sorry to say, our paths never crossed. Ladies and gentlemen, a thunderous welcome for Peter Frampton with Baby I Love Your Way.

Act 6: Self

Pronouns 2: The Musical – Act 4: Their

The Story

Welcome to Pronouns 2: The Musical.

Some may ask, “Pronouns?”, but we at A Frank Angle say, “Why not pronouns!”

Why a sequel to Pronouns? Again, “Why not!”

Program

Act 1: My
Act 2: Mine
Act 3: Our

Act 4: Their

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That’s the soul of a country. (Quincy Jones, musician)

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. (Charles Buck, writer)

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. (Oscar Wilde, dramatist)

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language. (Slobodan Milosevic, criminal)

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. (Leonard Boswell, politician)

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too. (Ryan Reynolds, actor)

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. Indira Gandhi, statesman

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds. (Albert Einstein, scientist)

Guidelines

Songs must have Their in the title

Cautions

• No duplicates songs regardless of artists
• Foreign language equivalents unacceptable
• “They are” (they’re) are unquestionable unacceptable

Production Note

1. To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please
2. Include the song title and artist in your text, and
3. Paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.

Announcement

Welcome to Act 4! Only two more acts left in Pronouns 2: The Musical. We secured a big star for the opener. She’s won 10 Grammy Awards. She’s number 50 on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She’s number 89 on Rolling Stone’s Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Singing Longing in Their Hearts, she is Bonnie Raitt!

 

Act 5: Your (next weekend)

Pronouns 2: The Musical – Act 3: Our

The Story

Welcome to Pronouns 2: The Musical.

Some may ask, “Pronouns?”, but we at A Frank Angle say, “Why not pronouns!”

Why a sequel to Pronouns? Again, “Why not!”

Program

Act 1: My
Act 2: Mine

Act 3: Our

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. (Marie Curie, scientist)

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. (Aristotle, philosopher)

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. (Melody Beattie, writer)

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (Thomas A. Edison, inventor)

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring. (Yoko Ono, artist)

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. (Dale Carnegie, writer)

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. (Pablo Picasso, artist)

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future. (Christine Gregoire, politician)

Guidelines

Songs must have Our or Ours in the title

Cautions

• No duplicates songs regardless of artists
• Foreign language equivalents unacceptable

Production Note

To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please

1. Include the song title and artist in your text, and
2. Paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.

Announcement

Welcome back for Act 3 of Pronouns 2: The Musical. Picking out an opening act for this act wasn’t easy because Our songs include numerous hits and songs from named artists. So, the we decided to invite a big name who has never opened an act on this stage. Besides his musical success, he’s always owns several wineries. Ladies and gentlemen, let’s give a loud and proud welcome to Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds with Lie in Our Graves.

Act 4: Their (next weekend)

Pronouns 2: The Musical – Act 2: Mine

The Story

Welcome to Pronouns 2: The Musical.

Some may ask, “Pronouns?”, but we at A Frank Angle say, “Why not pronouns!”

Why a sequel to Pronouns? Again, “Why not!”

Program

Act 1: My

 

Act 2: Mine

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. (Albert Einstein, scientist)

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine. (Neil Armstrong, astronaut)

Beyond a certain point, the music isn’t mine anymore. It’s yours. (Phil Collins, musician)

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. (Charles Darwin, naturalist)

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show. (Ada Lovelace, mathematician)

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. (Emily Bronte, novelist)

Chaos is a friend of mine. (Bob Dylan, musician)

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’ (Maya Angelou, poet)

Guidelines

Songs must have Mine in the title

Cautions

• No duplicates songs regardless of artists
• Foreign language equivalents unacceptable

Production Note

To prevent browsers crashing from loading too many videos, please

1. Include the song title and artist in your text, and
2. Paste the URL as part of your last line (not a new line). The latter will provide a link, thus not embed the actual video … but I don’t mind unembedding, so apologies are not necessary.

Announcement

Welcome back for Act 2 of Pronouns 2: The Musical. My introduction of this artists is simple. The year was 1995 – and when I first saw this video, I was hooked (for some mysterious reason). She’s also the reason I have a prosthetic left hand and my original hand is hermetically sealed for posterity. Ladies and gentleman – Shania Twain with Any Man of Mine.

Act 3: Our(s)