The Ballad of the Witches' Road

On May 29, 2026, the Act 2 reverie "Let's Go to the Movies!" turned to incantation as the Gay Men's Chorus of Tampa Bay carried "The Ballad of the Witches' Road" into Allendale United Methodist Church for "Love in Technicolor." Soloist Hayden Greer led the spell, shadowed by a tight backing quartet of Sam Brown, Jonathan Clapp, Mark Hamilton, and Michael Sugarman. The song, written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez for Marvel's "Agatha All Along," arrived as the screen's most seductive earworm of 2024.

The ballad lives on its luring melody, a modal, folk-rooted tune that beckons even as it warns. Built on that descending refrain and a slow harmonic pull, the writing trades spectacle for hypnosis, the kind of music that seems to remember itself before you do.

Greer sang it with patient, conspiratorial command. The lower range glowed with dusky warmth, while the climbing phrases tightened to a fine, focused edge, each "follow me" landing like an invitation you were not sure you should accept. Behind the solo, the four-man group laid a hushed, drone-like cushion, their close intervals shading the verses without ever crowding the lead.

Allendale's stone-and-timber acoustic served the song beautifully, letting Greer's softest entrances bloom into the rafters and giving the quartet's sustained harmonies a candlelit ring. The hall held the final cadence in a long, unbroken hush before the audience answered with a swelling, delighted ovation, charmed and a little spellbound.

Within "Let's Go to the Movies!," the number proved the chorus does not need full forces to conjure cinema, only a single magnetic voice and four steady allies. In a season about love rendered in technicolor, this darker hue felt right too, a reminder that chosen family sometimes gathers around a shared, secret song and walks the road together.