This is one of the most distressing songs from Broadway. The fact that she's FANTASIZING about her parents telling her that they love her is very heartbreaking.
To hear this song and know that everything her mom and dad are singing to her are nothing but what she **wishes** they'd say to her, I'm not sure I can hear this song without crying. It's an utter gut-punch.
Amazing interpretation. I was a little choked up when she pulls her parent closer and her expression before saying "wildly fanciful". Also need to say the lighting and blocking are also great.
I came back to watch (again and again) because the lighting/staging were the most rememberable that I’ve seen. And the vocals are great too (obviously).
The tiny nuances in Olive's performance are absolutely divine. This is one of my all time favourite MT songs, and allthough heartbreaking i rarely cry when watching a performance of it. This one finally broke me however. She just seems so broken and in desperate need of being put back together, but the addition of her small inadequate smiles really brings home how very much she wishes she could be happy. Chefs kiss
my absolute favorite version of this song, the harmony in their voices is so heartbreaking. the mom and dad match perfectly, and don’t even get me started on olive. as someone who is playing olive now, i am constantly watching this video and it breaks my heart every time, the actress playing olive knows exactly how to capture this feeling of longing and sadness. the breaks in her smile, the audible crying, everything about her performance is beautiful
The first time I heard this, I was watching our high school perform it. It had me in tears, especially with how for most of my life, My Biological mom wasn't in the picture that much. I knew she loved me, and I knew that everyone who had a part in raising me had loved me, but it still hurt. I'm so happy I get to see her so much more. My wish wasn't as Chimerical as I thought it was. :')
I got cast to play Olive in my school’s musical for next year (my teacher does auditions in advance so we can memorize over the summer) and I can relate to this song in my own way. I have some pretty bad issues at home myself, and they’re not noticeable to anyone who doesn’t live there. Just like Olive. If I start crying during this song it definitely will be real. “I think he takes out on me what he wants to take out on you.”
Hey, how did the show go? I hope you had a great time with it. It can be very freeing to play a character you relate to, like, the catharsis that comes with expressing feelings you maybe aren't able to if you didn't have the mask of playing someone else. Hope you're having a good day today!
My highschool performed this musical this year and performed this song perfectly. I actually cried during this song. You better trust I watched the musical 3 days in a row
Oh my word. That is literally the best performance ive seen of this song ever. Olive’s acting was absolutely outstanding!!! When she pulled them closer to her I could seriously feel those emotions slapping me in the face lol. Actually though, that was amazing. I do wish Olive and her parents got a little more light on their faces in a couple of parts but that may have been intentional. But that was hecking amazing!!! Well done!
this song hits very hard for me in a quite a few of different ways. i was sent to the psych ward a day before this show. i was a bee. i sang this song in the psych ward missing the musical and my parents. even though we have issues, i just wanted my troubles to go away and be home.
This song would be like if you are watching Book of Mormon and the actors tell you, “Surprise! You are watching Les Mis!” I also feel like it is no different to the movie Click.
This is one of the best performances of a broadway musical song I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a lot of musicals! The emotion and hurt you feel during this song the actors truly bright it to life and made you feel the pain Olivia feels I’ve never seen anything like this before! Congrats!! I’d love to see the full performance!
Beautiful interpretation. This song makes me cry every single time. Seriously, in theatres, I’ve had to plug my nose and twist my shirt to stop myself from sobbing loudly.
A couple of my friends are performing this song as part of a showcase we’re doing and I’ve never heard it until they performed what they had for us and it was amazing. They really did this song justice
Lyrics: [PANCH, spoken] Miss Ostrovsky. Chimerical. [OLIVE, spoken] May I have a definition? [PANCH, spoken, voice fading out] It means "Unreal. Magical. Visionary. Wildly fanciful. Highly unrealistic." [RONA as OLIVE’S MOM] Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh [OLIVE] If I go to Washington Will I be on my own? Because if I go to Washington [OLIVE’S MOM] Aaah aah aah aah aah aah [OLIVE] Who will be my chaperone? [OLIVE’S MOM] We always knew you were a winner We saw it when you smiled Start from the beginning When you were a beginner You were the perfect child We always knew, we always knew, you were a champion You sadness filled my room Dear, if you should feel my gloom Blame it on me Blame it on your Daddily and Mammily ‘Cause depression runs in our family I-I-I love you I-I-I love you I love everything about you dear And I swear it’s true I love you [MITCH as OLIVE’S DAD] I-I-I love you [OLIVE, spoken] And my dad says: [OLIVE’S PARENTS] I-I-I love you I love everything about you, baby/babe And maybe it’s true: I love you [OLIVE] I wrote you a letter How I found the spelling bee such fun Mama, Mama, Mama But you didn’t react And you never asked me If I’d join you in the Bombay sun Mama, Mama, Mama I had quietly packed When are you returning? I know we agreed Tell me what you’re learning Ma, I have Oh God This need... I think Dad is angry, Ma And I do not know what to do Mama, Mama, Mama Shanti, shanti and om I think he takes out on me What he wants to take out on you Mama, Mama, Mama How I wish you were home How I wish you were home How I wish you were Wish you were [OLIVE] Home- How I wish you were Home How I wish you were How I wish you were Home How I wish you were How I wish you were Home Mama, Mama, Mama How I Wish you were Home- Mama! I-I-I love you I love you, Mama I love you, Mama Mama! Mama! [OLIVE'S MOM] We always knew you were a winner A bathing beauty, You Olive, we couldn’t be prouder Please let me say it One time louder I-I-I love you I-I-I love you I love everything about you, dear And I swear it's true I love you I-I-I love you I-I-I love you I love everything about you, dear And I swear it's true I love... [OLIVE'S DAD] We always knew you were a winner God, we love the way you grew Since you were born Please let me say it One time louder I-I-I love you I-I-I love you I love everything about you, baby Maybe it's true I love you I-I-I love you I-I-I love you I love everything about you, baby Maybe it's true I love... [OLIVE, spoken] Chimerical. C-h-i-m-e-r-i-c-a-l. Highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful. [PANCH, spoken] That is correct. [OLIVE & PARENTS] I love you
When my school did two separate productions of this show, Olive’s Dad was played by the same actor who played Chip both times. In my opinion, it works better since Chip only appears in the very beginning and very end in Act 2.
i have read all of the comments and i agree 100 percent with them it is hard to write this when water falls are running down my cheeks!!!!! ox, ox, ox, to all.
I love this video vocally, but I think the performers are guilty of one of the things I dislike most in musical theater - they are playing the emotion. They are playing the sadness they want us to feel. I think it works better if they play the opposite - if everyone is happy in the fantasy and that only Olive should show how things really are at the beginning and the end.
does any know if this young lady, Josephine Emmett is still alive? i keep reading on internet she has passed, true ??? see my next comment. thank you. Tom Abbott
Miss Ostrovsky. Chimerical. [OLIVE, spoken] May I have a definition? [PANCH, spoken, voice fading out] It means "Unreal. Magical. Visionary. Wildly fanciful. Highly unrealistic." [RONA as OLIVE’S MOM] Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Skip Ad Arlo Parks “Weightless' Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified [OLIVE] If I go to Washington Will I be on my own? Because if I go to Washington [OLIVE’S MOM] Aaah aah aah aah aah aah [OLIVE] Who will be my chaperone? [OLIVE’S MOM] We always knew you were a winner We saw it when you smiled Start from the beginning When you were a beginner You were the perfect child We always knew, we always knew, you were a champion You sadness filled my room Dear, if you should feel my gloom Blame it on me Blame it on your Daddily and Mammily ‘Cause depression runs in our family I-I-I love you I-I-I love you I love everything about you dear And I swear it’s true I love you [MITCH as OLIVE’S DAD] I-I-I love you [OLIVE, spoken] And my dad says: [OLIVE’S PARENTS] I-I-I love you I love everything about you, baby/babe And maybe it’s true: I love you [OLIVE] I wrote you a letter How I found the spelling bee such fun Mama, Mama, Mama But you didn’t react And you never asked me If I’d join you in the Bombay sun Mama, Mama, Mama I had quietly packed When are you returning? I know we agreed Tell me what you’re learning Ma, I have Oh God This need... I think Dad is angry, Ma And I do not know what to do Mama, Mama, Mama Shanti, shanti and om I think he takes out on me What he wants to take out on you Mama, Mama, Mama How I wish you were home How I wish you were home How I wish you were Wish you were [OLIVE] Home- How I wish you were Home How I wish you were How I wish you were Home How I wish you were How I wish you were Home Mama, Mama, Mama How I Wish you were Home- Mama! I-I-I love you I love you, Mama I love you, Mama Mama! Mama! [OLIVE'S MOM] We always knew you were a winner A bathing beauty, You Olive, we couldn’t be prouder Please let me say it One time louder I-I-I love you I-I-I love you I love everything about you, dear And I swear it's true I love you I-I-I love you I-I-I love you I love everything about you, dear And I swear it's true I love... [OLIVE'S DAD] We always knew you were a winner God, we love the way you grew Since you were born Please let me say it One time louder I-I-I love you I-I-I love you I love everything about you, baby Maybe it's true I love you I-I-I love you I-I-I love you I love everything about you, baby Maybe it's true I love... [OLIVE, spoken] Chimerical. C-h-i-m-e-r-i-c-a-l. Highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful. [PANCH, spoken] That is correct. [OLIVE & PARENTS] I love you
This is one of the most distressing songs from Broadway. The fact that she's FANTASIZING about her parents telling her that they love her is very heartbreaking.
To hear this song and know that everything her mom and dad are singing to her are nothing but what she **wishes** they'd say to her, I'm not sure I can hear this song without crying. It's an utter gut-punch.
It's so good.
This song touches me so deeply, and this actress truly brought it to life. You could feel the emotion in every line, beautiful performance
thank you! we are so proud of this production
Amazing interpretation. I was a little choked up when she pulls her parent closer and her expression before saying "wildly fanciful". Also need to say the lighting and blocking are also great.
Thank you!!
I came back to watch (again and again) because the lighting/staging were the most rememberable that I’ve seen. And the vocals are great too (obviously).
The tiny nuances in Olive's performance are absolutely divine. This is one of my all time favourite MT songs, and allthough heartbreaking i rarely cry when watching a performance of it. This one finally broke me however. She just seems so broken and in desperate need of being put back together, but the addition of her small inadequate smiles really brings home how very much she wishes she could be happy. Chefs kiss
olives acting is outstanding oh my god
y are you the only comment here imma reply
thank you! isn't she incredible!!
yo the man who played the dad is cracked at singing
my absolute favorite version of this song, the harmony in their voices is so heartbreaking. the mom and dad match perfectly, and don’t even get me started on olive. as someone who is playing olive now, i am constantly watching this video and it breaks my heart every time, the actress playing olive knows exactly how to capture this feeling of longing and sadness. the breaks in her smile, the audible crying, everything about her performance is beautiful
My god, this is probably the best performance of this song I have seen
thank you so much!!
Jesus when he pulls them closer I wanted to weep, and the last couple harmonies were just gorgeous. Bravo 👏 👏
thank you!!
The first time I heard this, I was watching our high school perform it. It had me in tears, especially with how for most of my life, My Biological mom wasn't in the picture that much. I knew she loved me, and I knew that everyone who had a part in raising me had loved me, but it still hurt. I'm so happy I get to see her so much more. My wish wasn't as Chimerical as I thought it was. :')
My friend played olive and her performance made me cry omg this song is like a punch to the gut no matter who sings it 😢
I got cast to play Olive in my school’s musical for next year (my teacher does auditions in advance so we can memorize over the summer) and I can relate to this song in my own way. I have some pretty bad issues at home myself, and they’re not noticeable to anyone who doesn’t live there. Just like Olive. If I start crying during this song it definitely will be real. “I think he takes out on me what he wants to take out on you.”
I’m sorry dude :(
Happy you got the role though! I played Logainne one time and it was very cool. Have fun with the play! :D
@@maesaliva Thanks lol! The shows comes up in a few months!
Hey, how did the show go? I hope you had a great time with it. It can be very freeing to play a character you relate to, like, the catharsis that comes with expressing feelings you maybe aren't able to if you didn't have the mask of playing someone else. Hope you're having a good day today!
My highschool performed this musical this year and performed this song perfectly. I actually cried during this song. You better trust I watched the musical 3 days in a row
I played Willam Barfeè's mom Shelia I my high-school production and it was so hard to keep still and not cry at this song
Oh my word. That is literally the best performance ive seen of this song ever. Olive’s acting was absolutely outstanding!!! When she pulled them closer to her I could seriously feel those emotions slapping me in the face lol. Actually though, that was amazing. I do wish Olive and her parents got a little more light on their faces in a couple of parts but that may have been intentional. But that was hecking amazing!!! Well done!
I was hired to play a run of this show. I can tell you most of us were in tears down in the pit. This is a powerful rendition!
this song hits very hard for me in a quite a few of different ways. i was sent to the psych ward a day before this show. i was a bee. i sang this song in the psych ward missing the musical and my parents. even though we have issues, i just wanted my troubles to go away and be home.
That flute did them dirty smh
This song would be like if you are watching Book of Mormon and the actors tell you, “Surprise! You are watching Les Mis!” I also feel like it is no different to the movie Click.
This is one of the best performances of a broadway musical song I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen a lot of musicals! The emotion and hurt you feel during this song the actors truly bright it to life and made you feel the pain Olivia feels I’ve never seen anything like this before! Congrats!! I’d love to see the full performance!
Beautiful interpretation. This song makes me cry every single time. Seriously, in theatres, I’ve had to plug my nose and twist my shirt to stop myself from sobbing loudly.
This made me weep like a child this afternoon. Is the girl playing Olive pursuing a career in musical theatre now? I hope so. She is amazing.
A couple of my friends are performing this song as part of a showcase we’re doing and I’ve never heard it until they performed what they had for us and it was amazing. They really did this song justice
I fell in love with this song and just got casted as a Rona and I will get to sing this song as olive’s mom, and I am so so excited!
I’ve heard this song 3 times my whole life. Sobbed hysterically each time.
This song always gets me it's so raw and emotional
Holy SHIT this is amazing. Let’s give this Olive an award omg.🤩❤️
isn't she everything!!
看了好几个版本，这个版本的最能让我感动。妈妈唱歌的时候就开始热泪盈眶了，直到三个声音重合，眼泪流了下来。非常棒的演绎！🎉
Lyrics:
[PANCH, spoken]
Miss Ostrovsky. Chimerical.
[OLIVE, spoken]
May I have a definition?
[PANCH, spoken, voice fading out]
It means "Unreal. Magical. Visionary. Wildly fanciful. Highly unrealistic."
[RONA as OLIVE’S MOM]
Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
[OLIVE]
If I go to Washington
Will I be on my own?
Because if I go to Washington
[OLIVE’S MOM]
Aaah aah aah aah aah aah
[OLIVE]
Who will be my chaperone?
[OLIVE’S MOM]
We always knew you were a winner
We saw it when you smiled
Start from the beginning
When you were a beginner
You were the perfect child
We always knew, we always knew, you were a champion
You sadness filled my room
Dear, if you should feel my gloom
Blame it on me
Blame it on your Daddily and Mammily
‘Cause depression runs in our family
I-I-I love you
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you dear
And I swear it’s true
I love you
[MITCH as OLIVE’S DAD]
I-I-I love you
[OLIVE, spoken]
And my dad says:
[OLIVE’S PARENTS]
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you, baby/babe
And maybe it’s true:
I love you
[OLIVE]
I wrote you a letter
How I found the spelling bee such fun
Mama, Mama, Mama
But you didn’t react
And you never asked me
If I’d join you in the Bombay sun
Mama, Mama, Mama
I had quietly packed
When are you returning?
I know we agreed
Tell me what you’re learning
Ma, I have
Oh God
This need...
I think Dad is angry, Ma
And I do not know what to do
Mama, Mama, Mama
Shanti, shanti and om
I think he takes out on me
What he wants to take out on you
Mama, Mama, Mama
How I wish you were home
How I wish you were home
How I wish you were
Wish you were
[OLIVE]
Home-
How I wish you were Home
How I wish you were
How I wish you were Home
How I wish you were
How I wish you were Home
Mama, Mama, Mama
How I
Wish you were
Home-
Mama!
I-I-I love you
I love you, Mama
I love you, Mama
Mama! Mama! [OLIVE'S MOM]
We always knew you were a winner
A bathing beauty,
You
Olive, we couldn’t be prouder
Please let me say it
One time louder
I-I-I love you
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you, dear
And I swear it's true
I love you
I-I-I love you
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you, dear
And I swear it's true
I love... [OLIVE'S DAD]
We always knew you were a winner
God, we love the way you grew
Since you were born
Please let me say it
One time louder
I-I-I love you
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you, baby
Maybe it's true
I love you
I-I-I love you
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you, baby
Maybe it's true
I love...
[OLIVE, spoken]
Chimerical. C-h-i-m-e-r-i-c-a-l. Highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful.
[PANCH, spoken]
That is correct.
[OLIVE & PARENTS]
I love you
When my school did two separate productions of this show, Olive’s Dad was played by the same actor who played Chip both times. In my opinion, it works better since Chip only appears in the very beginning and very end in Act 2.
Absolutely amazing, I'm in tears!
thank you!!
i watched this musical 6 times because i loved it so much and cried each time to this song
This is SO GOOD
thank you!!
Their voices are PHENOMENAL !! ❤️❤️
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL OH MY GOD
god the vibrato control is AMAZING
Great performance of a brilliant song!
I got CHILLS!
thank you!!
Are they multiplying?
No but also chills. What a trio of voices 😍😍
This just made a grown man cry
We went and saw this musical this afternoon at The Oak Ridge Playhouse 😊!
JOSEPHINE ALL I CAN SAY MANY TIMES IS BRAVA, BRAVA, BRAVA, BRAVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There should be a warning before clicking this that it will completely wreck you.
I swear this song will never stop making me cry 😭
Great song.
Never get tired of hearing this 😍🥰😭
i have read all of the comments and i agree 100 percent with them it is hard to write this when water falls are running down my cheeks!!!!! ox, ox, ox, to all.
Oh, I gotta change how I do this song
So cool!
People who think this girl should play olive on the off broadway production
👇
To think most of this show is a comedy.
Did it just get really cold in here?
Trying out for olive
3:00 time stamp for me
I love this video vocally, but I think the performers are guilty of one of the things I dislike most in musical theater - they are playing the emotion. They are playing the sadness they want us to feel. I think it works better if they play the opposite - if everyone is happy in the fantasy and that only Olive should show how things really are at the beginning and the end.
This is an interesting take! I don't disagree. Perhaps if we ever do the show again we'll try this in rehearsals 🙂
does any know if this young lady, Josephine Emmett is still alive? i keep reading on internet she has passed, true ??? see my next comment. thank you. Tom Abbott
I'm happy to report she is very much alive!!
@@curtainbounce VERY GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE OF HER!!!!!!
@@tomabbott4980 that's very kind, Tom! Check out this song that a friend of mine wrote czcams.com/video/dj-KLVo8Oww/video.html
Who is the actress playing Olive?
Her name is Josephine Emmett, isn't she phenomenal!
Very difficult song. Good attempt
who plays the three of them?
Their names are Joshua Keane, Josephine Emmett and Suzanne O'Connor 🙂
I feel like this show is infinitely weirder with adults playing kids 💀😭
You know it's written to be performed that way right?!
This is a deep song
Miss Ostrovsky. Chimerical.
[OLIVE, spoken]
May I have a definition?
[PANCH, spoken, voice fading out]
It means "Unreal. Magical. Visionary. Wildly fanciful. Highly unrealistic."
[RONA as OLIVE’S MOM]
Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Skip Ad
Arlo Parks “Weightless' Official Lyrics & Meaning | Verified
[OLIVE]
If I go to Washington
Will I be on my own?
Because if I go to Washington
[OLIVE’S MOM]
Aaah aah aah aah aah aah
[OLIVE]
Who will be my chaperone?
[OLIVE’S MOM]
We always knew you were a winner
We saw it when you smiled
Start from the beginning
When you were a beginner
You were the perfect child
We always knew, we always knew, you were a champion
You sadness filled my room
Dear, if you should feel my gloom
Blame it on me
Blame it on your Daddily and Mammily
‘Cause depression runs in our family
I-I-I love you
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you dear
And I swear it’s true
I love you
[MITCH as OLIVE’S DAD]
I-I-I love you
[OLIVE, spoken]
And my dad says:
[OLIVE’S PARENTS]
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you, baby/babe
And maybe it’s true:
I love you
[OLIVE]
I wrote you a letter
How I found the spelling bee such fun
Mama, Mama, Mama
But you didn’t react
And you never asked me
If I’d join you in the Bombay sun
Mama, Mama, Mama
I had quietly packed
When are you returning?
I know we agreed
Tell me what you’re learning
Ma, I have
Oh God
This need...
I think Dad is angry, Ma
And I do not know what to do
Mama, Mama, Mama
Shanti, shanti and om
I think he takes out on me
What he wants to take out on you
Mama, Mama, Mama
How I wish you were home
How I wish you were home
How I wish you were
Wish you were
[OLIVE]
Home-
How I wish you were Home
How I wish you were
How I wish you were Home
How I wish you were
How I wish you were Home
Mama, Mama, Mama
How I
Wish you were
Home-
Mama!
I-I-I love you
I love you, Mama
I love you, Mama
Mama! Mama! [OLIVE'S MOM]
We always knew you were a winner
A bathing beauty,
You
Olive, we couldn’t be prouder
Please let me say it
One time louder
I-I-I love you
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you, dear
And I swear it's true
I love you
I-I-I love you
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you, dear
And I swear it's true
I love... [OLIVE'S DAD]
We always knew you were a winner
God, we love the way you grew
Since you were born
Please let me say it
One time louder
I-I-I love you
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you, baby
Maybe it's true
I love you
I-I-I love you
I-I-I love you
I love everything about you, baby
Maybe it's true
I love...
[OLIVE, spoken]
Chimerical. C-h-i-m-e-r-i-c-a-l. Highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful.
[PANCH, spoken]
That is correct.
[OLIVE & PARENTS]
I love you