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Goodnight, My Someone (accompanied by Ms. LuAnn Lane)
from Act I, Scene 4 of the American musical, The Music Man by Meredith Willson Libretto: Meredith Willson and Franklin Lacey
- Role: Marian Paroo, the town librarian and part-time piano teacher
- Voice Part: soprano
- Setting: the Paroo home, during Marian’s piano lesson for Amaryllis Shinn.
- Synopsis: Amaryllis secretly likes Marian’s little brother, but he ignores her, and she asks Marian who she should say goodnight to on the evening star since she doesn’t have a sweetheart. Marian tells her to just say goodnight to her “someone,” as she does, since she doesn’t have a sweetheart either.
(The translations/lyrics of this song have been provided in the PROGRAM in .pdf format)