When You’re Driving Through the Moonlight

CINDERELLA -
When you're driving through the moonlight on the highway
When you're driving through the moonlight to the dance
You are breathless with a wild anticipation
Of adventure and excitement and romance

Then at last you see the towers of the palace
Silhouetted on the sky above the park
And below them is a row of lighted windows
Like a lovely diamond necklace in the dark!

PORTIA -
It looks that way -

JOY -
The way you say

STEPMOTHER -
She talks as if she knows

CINDERELLA -
I do not know
These things are so
I only just suppose

I suppose that when you come into the ballroom
And the room itself is floating in the air
If you're suddenly confronted by His Highness
You are frozen like a statue on the stair!

You're afraid he'll hear the way your heart is beating
And you know you mustn't make the first advance
You are seriously thinking of retreating -
Then you seem to hear him asking you to dance!

You make a bow
A timid bow
And shyly answer "Yes."

STEPMOTHER -
How would you know
That this is so?

CINDERELLA -
I do no more than guess

And he makes you feel that you weigh nothing at all
He leads you around the crowded ballroom and out onto the terrace
And then suddenly you realize you've stopped dancing
And you realize you're staring deeply into each other's eyes
Deep enough to look into each other's souls
The earth seems to tremble beneath your feet
And then comes a moment so perfect
That you'll keep it locked in your heart forever
As your loveliest, most precious memory