"If You're Lucky" from DOUBLE HELIX by Madeline Myers

This is the audition cut of one of Madeline Myers' beautiful songs in her new musical, DOUBLE HELIX, which just opened at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. I didn't book the swing role I was up for, but I really fell in love with this music and this story about the groundbreaking Jewish scientist that the world didn't hear about: Rosalind Franklin. As a woman scientist, Franklin worked tirelessly to make progress on understanding the structure of DNA, often not getting the credit she very much deserved. Though her life was cut short by illness, she ultimately took the photographs that revealed the double helix structure of DNA - and revealed it before her more recognized American counterparts. As a Jewish woman, also fighting against the clock to make my life count (aren't we all?), this show really touched me.
This song is sung in the show by Rosalind's dear friend and fellow scientist, Adrienne Weill. Another female Jewish scientist, Weill had to flee Nazi-occupied France for England, where she met Franklin.
This song about surviving because and not in spite of grief, loss, and displacement, spoke deeply to my life experiences. It was an honor to learn it.
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Miyuki Miyagi is an Okinawan & Jewish American singer, dancer, actor, and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City.
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