Waiting for a Girl Like You

1.OVERTURE Orchestra 2.WHY CAN'T THE ENGLISH? HIGGINS  Look at her: a prisoner of the gutters,  Condemned by every syllable she utters,  By right she should be taken out and hung,  For the...
Scene One  Giorgio and Clara's room.  Drums. Lights slowly illuminate a bed with two figures who are making love on it. The man (Giorgio) is astride the woman (Clara).  Drums crescrendo to a climax...

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PROLOGUE MAGENTA: (As Usherette) Michael Rennie was ill The day the earth stood still But he told us where we stand And Flash Gordon was there In silver underwear Claude Rains was the invisible man...
Opening LILY: Clusters of crocus Purple and gold Blankets of pansies Up from the cold Lilies and iris Safe from the chill Safe in my garden Snowdrops so still FAKIR: Ah A'o jadu ke mausam A'o garmiyo...
TAKE THAT LOOK OFF YOUR FACE I can't quite believe it, I'm actually here,  The one place on earth I want to be.  New York is just short of perfection they say.  The one thing it lacks is me. It's all...
HARTRIGHT You must be Miss Halcombe-I'm so sorry- MARIAN (interrupting him) Thank God you have arrived you're fated to become  my drawing teacher you poor creature Our village is as dull as it may...
ACT I 1. Prologue The Neighborhood - The months before (The opening, half danced half mimed, is a condensation of the growing rivalry between two teenage gangs. The Sharks are Puerto Ricans, the Jets...
TOO MUCH EXPOSITION Lockstock Well, hello there. And welcome - to Urinetown! Not the place, of course. The musical. Urinetown "the place" is ... well, it's a place you'll hear people...
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Merci, Madame Aimable: Genevieve, Genevieve! Look around! Well, do you like it? Genevieve: I think I like it! Aimable: Did you hear that - she likes it! Did you hear that, Pompom? My darling says she...
How About You? PENNY:  When a girl meets boy,  life can be a joy,  but the note they end on  will depend on little pleasures they will share;  so let us compare. I like New York in June,  how about...

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