Broadway Baby (Live)

Next. Who's next?
Oh, me
All right. What are you going to sing?
Er, well, I... I've got this
This little number by Stephen Sondheim
Oh, God
Er, right. Thank you very much
Sondheim. I'll need to use all my fingers, then?
If you, er
If you wouldn't mind, er
If you could take this at a lesser tempo. Lesser tempo
No, no... no
I'm so sorry
Could you possibly play it a little slower?
You see, this was originally sung by an eighty-year-old woman
So I want to take it very gently
You know, a lot of hope
Right. Ready now. Sorry

I'm just a Broadway baby
Walking off my tired feet
Pounding 42nd street
To be in a show
Oh
Broadway baby
Learning how to sing and dance
This is my... It's my turn!
Waiting for my one big chance
To be in a show
Oh
Gee, I'd like to be
On some marquee
All twinkling lights
A spark to pierce the dark
From battery park
Way up to Washington Heights
Someday maybe
All my dreams will be repaid
Heck I'd even play the maid
To be in a show
You got hired
I got it? Yes! What?
She got it? This is my song
I got the job, I got the job!
I came all the way from America!
Oh, who cares!

Hey Mr. producer
I'm talking to you, sir
I don't need a lot only what I got
Plus a tube of greasepaint
And a follow-spot

Broadway baby
Slaving at the five and ten
Dreaming of the great day when
I'll be in a show
Oh
Someday maybe
If I stick it long enough
I may get to strut my stuff
Working for a nice man
Like a Ziegfeld or a Weismann
In a great big
Broadway show!