MP3's from the musical - "Straight to the Top"

1.Shivering 2. Shivering (reprise) 3. Keep on Dreaming 4.  Roll the Dice 5. They Don't Make Men Like That Anymore 6. They Don't Make Men Like That Anymore (reprise) 7. Shape Up or Ship Out 8. Do It on Your Own 9. Shock 'Em 10. That's What You Get When You're In The Game 11. Sexy 12. St. Anthony	13. I Wish 14. Do it on Your own (reprise) 15. By Accident 16. Keep on Dreaming (reprise) 17. Nobody's Fault 18. High Class Crook 19. You Told Me 20. Damned if You Do 21. Shivering (re-reprise) 22. Better Late than Never 23. Straight to the Top
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As a reporter, the author came into contact with the problems of other peopleʼs lives and experiences, while the songs are reflective of exactly who she is. But this knowledge does not exist in a vacuum. The author learned how to sell the music, the play, herself, and use entrepreneurial skills as a female professional. The author discovered songwriting, and that television reporting no longer satisfied a basic urge in herself, which is self-expression though both art and commerce. This basic discovery led to direct involvement with other songwriters and the writing of a musical stage play which reflects personal themes of dreams, ambition, encountering obstacles and new realities, failure (personal and professional), enlightenment, adjustment to new realities, discarding of old attitudes and assumptions, and resumption of the original dream on a higher, more enlightened ground. In the process, the individual songs are reflections of age-old themes in gender relations and self-fulfillment.