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_By MICHELE MAY
What makes “Where I’m Coinin’ From” work best is the original musical numbers.
The show stopping “Terminal Desire” left the opening night audience stunned all the way through the intermission and half the next day. This love song to a computer was composed by Bill Abernathy with lyrics by Freeman Allan and Loren Sdurba. Sdurba sang the lead with some 1960s style bobby-boxing scooby-doo back-up from Chris Ralph and Randy Moran. The entire cast portrayed the beloved computer through some exceptionally creative choreography.
“Please Don’t Melt the Sky” was another outstanding number. Jennifer Shorb was a winsome singer protesting war with sensitive lyrics by Gaston deBeam. The music was composed by Jair Gopal and Pali Delevitt.
In “School Bus” by Bill Abernathy with lyrics by Chris Ralph, the entire student body objects to people who drive our dogs and murder animal* “while out killing time.” The scene starts when one of the children looks out the bus window and says, “Look at that rabbit in the road!”
The entire chorus responds, “oh, yuchhhhh!” Such novel ways of starting songs made “Where I’m Cornin’ From” come together.
The actual structure of the play was borrowed from "The Me Nobody Knows”, a musical about young people written by a group of teens in New York in 1970. That play won the Obie Award for best musical of the year. Except for a song about a graffiti artist being killed by a subway while in the midst of creating a masterpiece, the Broadway version is tame compared to the one created by Rappahannock young people, however. A C Rappahannock’s opening
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