Testi musica canzoni

conceived, choreographed and directed by MICHAEL BENNET
book by JAMES KIRKWOOD and NICHOLAS DANTE
music by MARVIN HAMLISCH
lyrics by EDWARD KLEBAN

FOLLOWS "Sing!"

VAL
Hello Twelve,

RICHIE
Hello Thirteen,

MAGGIE
Hello Love.

AL
Changes, Oh!

BEBE
Down below.

DIANA
Up above.

VAL
Time to doubt.

MIKE
To break out.

RICHIE
It's a mess.

MAGGIE (speaks)
It's a mess.

PAUL, JUDY
Time to grow

AL, MAGGIE
Time to go

RICHIE, BOBBY, CONNIE
Adolesce

ALL
Adolesce
Too young to take over,
Too old to ignore.

AL
Gee, I'm almost ready,

ALL
But what for
There's a lot I am not certain of.
Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love

MARK (Wet Dream/Gonorrhea Bit - Abridged)
So, all I could do was drink the water and I drank like twenty glasses a day.
(speaks)
For three weeks
I almost drown
Finally I went to confession
And I told the priest I had gonorrhea!
He was in shock too.
(sings)
"Who have you been with, my son "
(Nobody, Nobody.)
"Then how can you have gonorrhea "
(speaks)
I told him about the books diagnosis for milky discharge and he set me straight!
It was the only time the church ever helped me out. Well, I was

CONNIE (Four-foot Ten Bit)
(sings)
Four-foot ten, four-foot ten. That's the story of my life.
I remember when ev'rybody was my size.
(speaks)
Boy, was that great! But then everybody started moving up, and there I was stuck at
(sings)
Four-foot ten! Four-foot ten. (But I kept hoping and praying.)
I used to hang from a parallel bar by the hour,
Hoping I'd stretch just an inch more.
(speaks)
'Cause I was into dancing and I was good and I wanted so much to grow up to be a prima ballerina. Then I went out for cheer-leader! And they told me: "No dice. You'd get lost on the football field. The pompoms are bigger than you." I spent my whole childhood waiting to grow

VAL
Tits! When am I gonna grow tits

PAUL
Secret, my whole life was a secret.

MIKE
One little fart and they called me "STINKY" for three year. Ohhhh!

ALL
Goodbye Twelve, goodbye Thirteen. Hello Love.

BEBE
Robert Goulet, Robert Goulet, my God, Robert Goulet!

ALL
Oh! Down below, up above

DON
Playing doctor with Evelyn.

ALL
La la la

RICHIE
I'll show you mine

ALL
La la

RICHIE
You show me yours.

ALL
La la

KRISTINE
Seeing Daddy naked!

ALL
Time to grow. Time to go La, la, la

SHEILA
Mom and Dad were doing it.

BOBBY
I'm gonna be a movie star.

CONNIE (speaks)
But you see, the only thing about me that grew was my desire.
(sings)
I was never gonna be Maria Tallchief, I was just (dialogue dodging the age issue, but mentions the year of the Chicken)

ZACK (speaks)
Ah-hah, the year of the Chicken that'll make you, what Thirty-two

CONNIE (speaks)
Puck-puck-puck-puck girl! So I got caught! But I don't look it, and I shouldn't knock it, 'cause I've always been able to work.
(sings)
From the time I was five in "King and I," "King and I."
Up 'til now I've never stopped, 'cause whatever I am, I am

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