The film's opening number, "How Shall I See You Through My Tears" from the 1988 musical The Gospel at Colonus.
The Eleven O'Clock Number sung by Jenna directly to her parents, "Here's Where I Stand," with her wires cut from her jaw.
After an altercation with alcoholic composer Bert Hanley, cool-kid Vlad finds copies of sheet music for songs he wrote outside his one major Broadway show, which he is then quick to photocopy and share with his friends. One of them is "Century Plant."note which is really a song by folksinger Victoria Williams off her 1994 album Loose When Bert Hanley hears the kids perform his song, he furiously crumples up the photocopies of sheet music, throws them away, and sulks outside the shed for several minutes. Sure enough, the strength at which the kids sing his catchy, life-affirming chorus, along with the vocal harmonies they make up, are enough to send him running back in and jamming full-force with the cast.
Hollywood Homely: Joanna Chilcoat has said that Ellen’s character description in the script said she was “chunky,” and she almost cries when she’s called “pretty,” but she doesn’t look that different from any other girl at the camp. She’s also so desperate for a prom date that she gets rejected by her own brother and agrees to go out with Vlad even after he treats her callously throughout the movie. The lack of previous male attention may be more due to her being a “theatre freak,” than due to her being unattractive, but it’s still a little hard to believe.
