The Show Must Go On 🎭 “Inside my heart is breaking, my makeup may be flaking but my smile still stays on”
Show choirs have been popularized by the American television show Glee but have a longer history dating back to glee clubs in London in the 18th century, musical theatre, music in the plays of William Shakespeare and the theatre of ancient Greece. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_choir
The Show Must Go On is a song by British rock band Queen, featured as the twelfth and final track on their 1991 album, Innuendo. It is credited to Queen, but was primarily written by guitarist Brian May. The song chronicles the effort of frontman Freddie Mercury continuing to perform despite approaching the end of his life, although his diagnosis with HIV/AIDS had not yet been made public in spite of ongoing media speculation that he was seriously ill. When the band recorded the song in 1990, Mercury's condition had deteriorated to the point that May had concerns as to whether he was physically capable of singing it. May recalls; "I said, 'Fred, I don't know if this is going to be possible to sing.' And he went, 'I'll f**king do it, darling'—vodka down—and went in and killed it, completely lacerated that vocal" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Show_Must_Go_On_(Queen_song)
Picture of the Totino-Grace High School company of singers performing by Fotki on Wikimedia Commons adapted using the Wikipedia app w.wiki/AMr$
The Show Must Go On 🎭 “Inside my heart is breaking, my makeup may be flaking but my smile still stays on”
Show choirs have been popularized by the American television show Glee but have a longer history dating back to glee clubs in London in the 18th century, musical theatre, music in the plays of William Shakespeare and the theatre of ancient Greece. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_choir
The Show Must Go On is a song by British rock band Queen, featured as the twelfth and final track on their 1991 album, Innuendo. It is credited to Queen, but was primarily written by guitarist Brian May. The song chronicles the effort of frontman Freddie Mercury continuing to perform despite approaching the end of his life, although his diagnosis with HIV/AIDS had not yet been made public in spite of ongoing media speculation that he was seriously ill. When the band recorded the song in 1990, Mercury's condition had deteriorated to the point that May had concerns as to whether he was physically capable of singing it. May recalls; "I said, 'Fred, I don't know if this is going to be possible to sing.' And he went, 'I'll f**king do it, darling'—vodka down—and went in and killed it, completely lacerated that vocal" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Show_Must_Go_On_(Queen_song)
Picture of the Totino-Grace High School company of singers performing by Fotki on Wikimedia Commons adapted using the Wikipedia app w.wiki/AMr$