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Show Clip - Wicked - "Dancing Through Life" - Original Cast

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[FIYERO]
The trouble with schools is
They always try to teach the wrong lessons
Believe me, I've been kicked out of enough of them to know
They want you to become less callow, less shallow
But I say, why invite stress in?
Stop studying strife
And learn to live the unexamined life

Dancing through life, skimming the surface
Gliding where turf is smooth
Life's more painless for the brainless
Why think too hard when it's so soothing?

Dancing through life, no need to tough it
When you can slough it off as I do
Nothing matters, but knowing nothing matters
It's just life, so keep dancing through

Dancing through life, swaying and sweeping
And always keeping cool
Life is fraught-less when you're thoughtless
Those who don't try never look foolish

Dancing through life, mindless and careless
Make sure you're where less trouble is rife
Woes are fleeting, blows are glancing
When you're dancing through life

[spoken]
So-what's the most swankified place in town?

[GALINDA]
That would be the Ozdust Ballroom

[FIYERO]
Sounds perfect

[sung]
Let's go down to the Ozdust Ballroom
We'll meet there later tonight
We can dance 'til it's light
Find the prettiest girl, give her a whirl
Right on down to the Ozdust Ballroom
Come on, follow me
You'll be happy to be there

[ALL]
Dancing through life down at the Ozdust

[FIYERO]
If only because dust is what we come to

[ALL]
Nothing matters, but knowing nothing matters
It's just life

[FIYERO]
So keep dancing through

[BOQ, spoken]
M-Miss Galinda
I hope you'll save at least one dance for me
I'll be right there waiting, all night

[GALINDA]
Oh, that's so kind
But you know what would be even kinder?

[sung]
See that tragically beautiful girl?
The one in the chair?
It seems so unfair
We should go on a spree and not she
Gee! I know someone would be my hero
If that someone were to go invite her

[BOQ, spoken]
Well, maybe... I could invite her!

[GALINDA, sung]
Oh, Biq, really?
You would do that for me?

[BOQ, spoken]
I would do anything for you, Miss Galinda

[GALINDA, spoken]
So...

[FIYERO, spoken]
So I'll be picking you up around eight?

[GALINDA, spoken]
After all-

[sung]
Now that we've met one another

[FIYERO & GALINDA]
It's clear we deserve each other

[GALINDA]
You're perfect

[FIYERO]
You're perfect

[FIYERO & GALINDA]
So we're perfect together
Born to be forever
Dancing through life

[NESSAROSE]
Oh, Elphaba, isn't it wonderful?
Finally, for this one night
I'm about to have a fun night
With this Munchkin boy Galinda found for me
And I only wish there were
Something I could do for her to repay her
Elphaba, see?
We deserve each other
And Galinda helped it come true
We deserve each other, me and Boq
Please, Elphaba try to understand

[ELPHABA]
I do

[spoken]
Galinda, listen
Nessa and I were talking about you just now

[GALINDA, spoken]
And I was just talking about you!
I thought you might want to wear this hat to the party tonight!

[sung]
It's really, uh, sharp, don't you think?
You know black is this year's pink
You deserve each other, this hat and you
You're both so smart
You deserve each other
So here, out of the goodness of my heart

[BOQ]
Listen, Nessa?

[NESSAROSE, spoken]
Yes?

[BOQ, sung]
Uh, Nessa
I've got something to confess, a
Reason why, well...
Why I asked you here tonight
Now I know it isn't fair

[NESSAROSE]
It's because I'm in this chair
And you felt sorry for me
Well, isn't that right?

[BOQ]
No! No! It's because, uh, because
Because you are so beautiful!

[NESSAROSE]
Oh, Boq, I think you're wonderful!
And we deserve each other
Don't you see, this is our chance?
We deserve each other
Don't we, Boq?

[BOQ]
You know what?
Let's dance

[NESSAROSE, spoken]
What?!

[BOQ, sung]
Let's dance!

[ALL]
Dancing through life down at the Ozdust
If only because dust is what we come to!
And the strange thing, your life could end up changing
While you're dancing through!

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Norbert Leo Butz (Ft. Christopher Fitzgerald, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth & Michelle Federer) - Dancing Through Life

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Dancing Through Life Lyrics: The trouble with schools is / They always try to teach the wrong lessons / Believe me, I've been kicked out of enough of them to know / They want you to become less callow, less

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Medi No Middling Vocab Medic!

The root word medi means "middle." Let's im mediately start chatting about medi-no medi ators needed here!

When we speak of someone of medium height, we say that that person is somewhere in the "middle" of being tall and short, just like a stove setting that is at a medium temperature is between low and high heat. If you do a medi ocre job of cooking, you just do it halfway, or in the "middle" of doing it poorly and doing it well.

If you were to study the medieval world, you would be studying the "Middle" Ages, or that period of European history between or in the "middle" of the fall of Rome and the Renaissance. The most important body of water during the European Middle Ages was the Mediterranean sea, so named because it is in the "middle" of two continents: Europe and Africa. You might also study wars in which knights, when seriously wounded, would require im medi ate medical attention, or care that is not simply halfway or in the "middle" but rather urgently attended to.

The media loves to cover all kinds of exciting news events. The media, or forms of communication such as television, newspapers, magazines, etc. is so called because it is in the "middle" of newsworthy events and the audience who receives information about them. Often the media will cover disputes between groups; these conflicts often require a medi ator, or someone who goes into the "middle" of the conflicts to try to solve them peacefully.

Last, but not least, is the mathematical concept of the median, which we all probably learned about when in "middle" or inter mediate school. The median in a series of numbers is simply the number right in the "middle" of the others; for instance, in the sequence of numbers 1, 3, 7, 9, and 12, the number "7" is in the "middle" of the other numbers, just like the medi an strip of a highway is the paved or planted strip in the "middle" of the highway that separates traffic moving in opposite directions.

We have certainly done no "middling" or mediocre job when it has come to learning about the root word medi meaning "middle." Now you'll be able to know words im mediately that have the root medi in them!

1. medium: in the "middle" of two extremes

2. mediocre: of doing work in the "middle" between excellent and poor

3. medieval: of the "Middle" Ages

4. Mediterranean: the sea in the "middle" of the land

5. immediate: not acting in a "middle" way, but doing it right away

6. media: information sources in the "middle" of an event and the audience who learns about it

7. mediator: one who is in the "middle" of a conflict who helps solve it

8. intermediate: the "middle" state between two things, such as "middle" school

9. median: the number in the "middle" of a sequence of numbers, or the strip in the highway "middle"

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The root word medi means "middle." Let's im mediately start chatting about medi-no medi ators needed here! When we speak of someone of medium height, we say that that person is somewhere in the "middle" of being tall and short, just like a stove setting that is at a medium temperature is between low and high heat.

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lucidity (n.)

from Latin lucidus "light, bright, clear,"

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-elusive-thoery-of-everything/

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Albert Camus’ The Stranger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(Camus_novel)

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Gifted narrator behind mask of mediocrity.

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Intelligence is boredom. Normality is mystery.

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Intelligence is boredom. Normality is mystery.

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Success is not always positive

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Afraid:
Standing out
Success is isolation

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Being average better than being genius

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It represents isolation and a repeating structure to life that is meaningless, how a goldfish just swims around all day by itself.

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I think the goldfish bowl is the "normal adult life" of repeating your daily activities every day like a robot.

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I think that the goldfish bowl represents her fear of living a repetitive, boring life in adulthood.

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The goldfish bowl is the isolation that comes with success. The narrator wants to blend in and not end up isolated with others watching her. She wants to blend in.

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I think the goldfish bowl is the place where there is a structured routine that is repeated and there isn't a lot of variation in activity.