Opening Greeting: Track 1 Sets the tone for the show. Introduces the key tobacco-prevention, smoking cessation, and related health education themes to follow. Positive, funny, sincere, and theatrical. “I’m Alive!” Track 2 “Disney” style theme song. Celebrates fundamental joy of being alive. Life affirming. Promotes a commitment to keep your body in beautiful shape, embrace “natural highs.” Celebrates potential for enjoying an exciting life, and the ability to surmount, without smoking, the inevitable problems and troubles life will bring. The Party: Track 3 Soul/Rock song. Highlights everyday miracles of human physiology as an exciting “party” which would be ruined by smoking. Prevention, Good Health, Healthy Choices themes. I am Just a Little Cigarette: Track 4 Giant cigarette, with accent, “attitude,” and guile, sings with great affection about the chemical ingredients within him/her. Themes: Nicotine addiction and dependence; tobacco advertising; the romanticizing of smoking; long-term health risks. Outa My Face! Track 5 “Babies” sing emphatic reprimands on the presence and the hazards of secondhand (environmental) smoke in their lives. A song using humor to address a very serious topic! Forever Aftah: Track 6 A favorite of fifth and sixth graders. Lots of laughs in performance. Very laid back, with “island” energy. Messages: Tobacco prevention, healthy choices; celebrating personal potential; dealing with stress; self-control; critiquing tobacco advertising. If You Don’t Get Started: Track 7 Pop/soul ballad. Themes of healthy choices, cigarette ads, nicotine addiction, health risks of smoking. A Smoker’s Cough: Track 8 London Philharmonic meets the Liverpool Brass Band. Musical recitation. British (“Cockney”) accent, with an “orchestra of coughers.” This high-energy monologue is a “reverse psychology” satire on the health risks of smoking, and addiction. Whah!? Track 9 Major audience favorite. Picture entire kindergarten class in ten-gallon hats. Mega “twangy” country song on themes of financial cost of smoking, deceptive nature of cigarette advertising, resisting peer pressure, self-esteem, health risks. I Don’t Wanna Stink! Track 10 Musical “debate” between two friends, one pressuring the other to try smoking. Themes: tobacco prevention; resisting peer pressure; likelihood of developing “camel breath” from smoking, choices. Physical effects. Choices Track 11 A poetic presentation, combining singing of some phrases, with some phrases spoken over a musical accompaniment. Tender, reflective. Themes: looking “inward” for the power to make healthy choices; looking forward with confident to fulfilling goals and dreams. We’re the Guys You Never Want to Meet Track 12 A “heavy metal”/rap musical and dramatic introduction to major smoking-relating diseases and physical consequences of smoking and tobacco use. Be Butt Free!! Track 13 A series of dramatic “scenes,” developing the “Be Butt Free!” Tobacco prevention them in the settings of a “martial arts class,” “sports team entering crowded stadium,” Shakespearean Play,” “cowboy poet,” “extreme skier.” Vidal and the Vital Organs Track 14 Organs within the body of a smoker sing to him/her about how they are all suffering from their “host” smoking. On themes of nicotine addiction; health hazards; quitting (cessation). Motown/soul style. Soloists include: heart, lungs, teeth, red blood cells and brain. When the Smoke Clears Track 15 Folk/rock style. On themes: nicotine addiction; dependency; financial cost of smoking; health risks. For the Rest of My Life Track 16 Emotional, on theme of smoking cessation. Performed by two soloists. A loving, positive caring expression of support and encouragement from kids – to their parents who are trying to quit smoking. Emotional high point of program. Everybody Loves a Quitter! Track 17 Swing style, positive energy, totally upbeat song. Positive reinforcement on them of smoking cessation. Highlights personal and physical benefits to be gained from quitting. Solo(s) with repeat by full chorus. Great for dancing! Breathe! Track 18 The big production song in “I’m Alive!” High energy, gospel/rock style. A celebration of breathing, and the tobacco-free life. Themes: Smoking cessation; lifestyle benefits of quitting; smoking prevention; life affirming; celebration of healthy life/healthy choices. Life is Beautiful Track 19 Tender, pop/soul ballad. A beautiful song for performance by soloist(s) and the entire cast. A musical resolution/denouement following the joyful celebration of “Breathe!” An emotional summation of the key themes in the musical. “I’m Alive!” Reprise Track 20 A rock style reprise of the opening song. May be performed while cast members take their bows during audience applause. Life affirming. Promotes a commitment to keeping your body in a beautiful shape, embracing “natural highs.” The final repeat of the “I’m alive!” phrase is shouted out loud, with hands in the air, as an “exclamation point” to the students’ performance.