Found/Tonight: Choral SoundPax

This arrangement gives your choir the chance to perform music from two of the most culturally significant Broadway shows of the past decade without requiring an overhaul of your concert aesthetic. The mash-up format lets you present back-to-back hits in a single, cohesive moment, and the emotional arc from "You Will Be Found" into "The Story of Tonight" creates genuine narrative weight that resonates with audiences of all ages.

The piece moves between vulnerability and celebration. "You Will Be Found" carries a tender, searching quality that invites introspection, while "The Story of Tonight" erupts with joy and camaraderie. The mash-up honors both emotional territories without diminishing either one, creating a moment of genuine uplift.

Choirs at the high school and college level who want to program Broadway music with contemporary energy and emotional authenticity. This arrangement also works for adult community choirs and show choirs seeking repertoire that speaks to their performers' lived musical culture rather than treating contemporary songwriting as a novelty.

• Lock the rhythmic precision early in rehearsal. Both songs rely on groove and subdivision; clean rhythmic execution transforms the arrangement from pleasant to compelling.
• Lean into the contemporary vocal language. Allow your singers to interpret with swagger and conversational inflection, especially in the rap-influenced sections, rather than defaulting to classical phrasing.
• Highlight the recorded accompaniment during initial learn-throughs so singers hear how their parts sit within the groove and harmonic texture of each song.
• Build dynamic contrast between the two songs. "You Will Be Found" typically sits in reflective territory, while "The Story of Tonight" bursts with celebration; let that shift breathe so the mash-up feels intentional rather than arbitrary.

This arrangement fits naturally into a spring concert that mixes classical and contemporary repertoire, or anchor an entire Broadway-themed concert. It also works as a show choir feature or as part of a program celebrating musical theater written in the last twenty years.

• Rhythmic independence in mixed meters and syncopated patterns
• Contemporary vocal production and stylistic interpretation
• Harmonic awareness in jazz-influenced chords and extended harmonies
• Ensemble balance when melody and accompaniment use similar rhythmic material