When I Was Your Man

VOCAL TRIO When the tolling of the temple bell  Told me that dawn and my vigil's end had come at last  I felt as though I'd passed a hundred Autumn nights.  Scene 1  (Spring)  SARASHINA, VOCAL TRIO...
ELECTRA There is naught so terrible to describe, be it physical pain or heaven-sent affliction, that man's nature may not have to bear the burden of it. Tantalus, they say, once so prosperous,-and I...

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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...
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...
Dear Old Syracuse VERSE This is a terrible city. The people are cattle and swine. There isn't a girl I'd call pretty Or a friend that I'd call mine. And the only decent place on earth Is the town that...
NEW SUN IN THE SKY India Adams :  I see a new sun up in a new sky And my whole horizon has reached a new high Yesterday my heart sang a blue song But today hear it hum a cheery new song I dreamed a...
1.Where Or When  VERSE Sometimes you think you've lived before  All that you live today  Things you do come back to you As though they knew the way Oh, the tricks your mind can play! REFRAIN It seem...
First Act, Part 1 Scene Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room. [Lane is...
(The stage is black. Humming can be heard.) VOICE The mind is a wondrous place to wander when one is unaware. (Humming stops.) VOICES Who is that? Who has broken through in here? You there! VOICE Me?...

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