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Note from Janine, Feb 2025: So, this musical never came to be beyond this song, but leaving it up as a record of Lesli's incredible performance. What a joy to have her perform this. And I'm still proud of the "sparkle/matriarchal" rhyme. :)
Please see more of my current work over at    / mcguireandsimon  


"You Won't Stop Me"
music and lyrics by Janine McGuire
from a new untitled musical co-written with Emily Paul

Performed by Lesli Margherita
From Sparkification Productions presents An Evening Celebrating Emerging Female Composers: a concert for gender parity in musical theatre.
Music Direction by Mary-Mitchell Campbell
July 15th, 2013. The Helen Mills Theatre.

Filmed by Dorian Carli-Jones

DESCRIPTION:
Here we meet birth control activist Margaret Sanger, who burns with ambition to go to medical school and become one of the few female doctors of her era.

LYRICS:

I can't wait to leave this place
It is way too small for me
Don't forget this name, this face
I am gonna make it

Make it
Make it, make it
Make it
I will make it someday

I'm gonna make it big
I'm gonna be so bold
I am gonna make it to the top
And then I'll never stop
I'll be famous
I'll know greatness
You will see
And then you'll all see!

And you won't stop me
No!
A twentieth century girl
You won't stop me
Oh
I will change the world
You won't stop me

This is what I'm born to do
Saving lives and showing my stuff
I'll get in and make it through
I am gonna make it

Make it
Yes, I'll make it
Make it
I will make my way

I'm gonna make it big
I'm gonna make shit right
I am gonna busy down doors
Like nobody has done before
I will sparkle
So matriarchal
Girls like me
Will wish they could be:
Dr. Margaret Sanger!

And you won't stop me
No
I am gonna answer the call
You won't stop me
Oh
I will have it all!
You won't stop me-----!
Oh!

No, you won't stop me
No!
Never tell me I'm just a girl
You won't stop me
Oh
I will save the world!
You won't stop me
You won't stop me
No, you won't stop me!!