I'll Find A Place

A VERY long time ago I was the lyricist for a musical version of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book, Where The Wild Things Are. (The theatre company I worked for secured the rights for this musical...to be one of the last companies to do so before a movie version was to be made...)

I wrote the lyrics while studying abroad in Rome in November of 2001. This was my first paying writing job! I actually had a contract and everything! I sold my work to a theatre company in 2001. The theatre company has since closed. I have no idea who currently owns my lyrics. BUT I did find them in an old email; I am posting them here for you to ready anyway...I'll have them up until I'm told to take them down. :)


In this scene Max has been punished and sent to his room. He talks of running away and finding a "new place." The scene slowly changes...vines grow, and Max begins to sail away...


I'll Find A Place
Lyrics by: Melissa C. G. Alvarez

I'll find a place so far away
Where I can thump, crash, bump, and play
Where I have never been but long to be...

There, it is! I can see...
past the towering trees
with bright green leaves
Across the roaring sea that will take me

To find a place so far away
Where I can thump, crash, bump, and play
Where I have never been but long to be...

I'll sail away-away from here
across the days, the weeks, the months...
For a Year!
and that roaring sea will lead me...

To find a place so far away
Where I can thump, crash, bump, and play
Where I have never been but long to be...

There's no rules, no moms, no bed.
There's only fun, 'cause I said.
In that place that's real far...
(sees sign)
Where the Wild Things Are?