1.Girl Meets Boy
Joe：Girl meets boy.
That's a safe beginning.
Artie：Is this a Western？
I love those wild-rolling plains.
Betty：No it's not. They live in the city.
Artie：Then it's a thriller：
A sidewalk gleams when it rains.
Or how about a brilliant pianist？
Every time the full moon's on the rise
He can't play without a shot of virgin's Blood.
Betty：Thanks a lot
Be sure to leave your number.
Artie：you'll think of something,
I'll see you opening night.
Betty：Girl meets boy,
Now if I remember
She's a young teacher,
He's a reporter
It's hate at first sight.
Joe：It won't sell,
These days they want glamour：
Fabulous heiress
Meets handsome Hollywood heel
Problem is, she thinks he's a dentist.
Would you believe it？
A wedding on the last reel.
Betty：It doesn't have to be so mindless.
You should write from your experience
Give us something really moving;
Something true
Joe：who wants true？
Who the hell wants moving？
Moving means starving
And true means holes in your shoe.
Betty：No you're wrong.
They still make good pictures.
Stick to your story,
It's a good story.
Joe：O.K. Miss Schaffer
I give it to you.
2.Let's Have Lunch
Joe：Hi there Myron
Myron：How's it hanging？
Joe： I've got a date with Sheldrake
Myron： I'm shooting a western down at FOX
Joe： How can you work with Darryl？
Myron： We should talk
Joe： Gotta run
Both： Let's have lunch
Joe： Morning JoannaMary： Hi there Myron
Joanna： hi' how're you doing？Myron：How's it hanging？
Joe： I've got a date with SheldrakeMary： I'm up for an audition
Joanna： I'm handing my secondraftMyron：I'm shooting a western
down at FOX
Joe： I'd really love to read itMary：Don't forget me when
you're casting
Joanna： We should talkMyron：We should talk
Joe： Gotta runMary： Gotta run
All： Let's have lunch
1st Fin：We want the keys to your car
2nd Fin：You're way behind with the payments
1st Fin：Don't give us any fancy footwork...
2nd Fin：Give us the keys
Joe：I only wish I could help
I loaned it to my accountant
He has an important client down in
Palm Springs, felt like playing some golf
1st Fin：Are you telling us you walked here？
Joe：I believe in self denial.
I'm in training for the priesthood
2nd Fin：OK, wise guy. Three hundred bucks.
1st Fin：Or we're taking the car.
2nd Fin：We have a court order.
Joe：I love it when you talk dirty.
Morino：Greetings, Gillis
What brings you here？
Joe：You're my agent you should know.
Morino：Make it quick, don't keep me waiting
I'm with Sheldrake
10：15
Joe：Hey listen, I need two hundred Dollars.
Morino：Maybe what you need is a new agent
Joe：Hello Artie
Artie：Joe you bastard!
Joe：You never call me anymore
Artie：Found a cuter dancing partner, how are things？
Joe：Not so great.
Artie：Will this help？
Joe：Thanks you're a pal, I'll pay you back.
Artie：When you sign your contract.
All：Good morning Mr. DeMille.
Joe：I just love hollywood.
Myron：Morning Joanna
Cliff： Where've you been hiding？
Sammy： Hi there, Lisa.
Myron：How're you doing？
Katherine： I hate this weather
Cliff： You look great.
Liz：RKO are OK!
Mary：What're you doing？
Joanna： You look great
Girls： This is the biggest film ever made
Cliff：I'm trying to make my mind up
Mary： Guess I was born to play her
Dawn： What is my motivation？
Joanna：You look great
Sammy： They're talking nominations
Liz： You should go work for Warners'.
Myron：Is your new script with Sheldrake？
Morino： I'm very close to sheldrake.
Artie：We shoot next month
Adam：I just signed
Sammy／Sandy／Artie／Morino／Myron：
Gotta run
John：Let's drive to vegas this weekend
Katherine $ Joanna：
Let's have lunch
Anita：You look great
Joanna： I'm handing in my second draft.
Mary： It's between me and Dietrich.
Katherine：I've landed a big Broadway show
Adam： I'm gonna work for Metro
Cliff： Let's have lunch
Mary：Let's have lunch
Girls：Let's have lunch, this is the biggest film ever made
Myron：I'd really love to read it
Cliff： I'd know just how to light you
John： Let's have lunch
John／Lisa：It won't work
Morino： Let's pencil Thursday morning
Group 1：We should talk
Group 2： Gotta run
Group 3：Let's have lunch
Chorus：Hi, Good morning, aren't we lucky？
Going to work with Cukor
Paramount is paradise, movies from A to Zukor
We should talk, gotta run
Group 1：Let's have lunch
3.Let'S Have Lunch (Reprise)
Joanna：He says my screenplay's much too dark
Katherine：What do they know, these morons
Sandy：Where's your husband？
Sasha：He's in Reno
Gerard：So are you free for dinner？
Artie：Joe, you bastard
What brings you here？
Joe：I'm taking a creative note
From some snotty studio smartass
Artie：I'm in love
Joe：what, again？
Artie：No, no, no
This is it
The real thing
Never thought it could happen like this
Saw myself as the Jewish Casanova,
But as soon as we shared our first kiss
I knew all my romancing days are over
Now I'm up in the clouds and I'm head
Over heels.
I know it sounds corny, but that's how it feels
4.New Ways To Dream
Joe：I started work on the script,
I hacked my way to the thicket,
A maze a fragmented ramblings
Buy a soul in limbo.
She hovered there like a hawk,
Afraid I'd damage her baby.
The house was always so quiet.
Just me and Max and that organ.
No one phoned and nobody ever came.
I couldn't breathe in that room
It was so full of Norma Dezmond
And there was only one
kind of entertainment on hand.
Norma：This was dawn：
There were no rules,
We were so young.
Movies were born;
So many songs
Yet to be sung.
So many roads still unexplored;
We gave the world
New ways to dream.
Somehow we found
New ways to dream.
Joan of arc：
Look at my face,
Isn't it strong？
There in the dark.
Up on the screen,
Where I belong.
We'll show them all
Nothing has changed
We'll give the world
New ways to dream.
Everyone needs
New ways to dream.
Joe：I didn't argue,
Why hurt her,
You don't yell at a sleepwalker
Or she could fall and break her neck.
She smelled of faded roses.
It made me sad to watch her
As she relived her glory.
Poor Norma,
So happy,
Lost in her silver heaven.
Norma：they can't see where the future lies,
They don't recognize a star
5.Salome
Norma：Salome, what a woman, what a part!
Innocent body and a sinful heart,
Inflaming Herod's lust,
But secretly loving a holy man.
Nobody could play her like I can.
Joe：well, I had nothing urgent coming up,
I thought I might as well skim it.
It's fun to see how bad bad writing can be,
This promised to go to the limit.
Norma：there's so many great scenes, I can't wait.
A boiling cauldron of love and hate.
She toys with Herod
Till he's putty in her hands
He reels tormented through the
Desert sands
Joe：it sure was a real cheery set-up
The wind breezing through that organ
Max shuffling around and a dead ape
Dumped on a shelf
And her staring like a gorgon
Norma：they drag the Baptist up from the jails
She dances the dance of the seven veils.
Herod says： I'll give you anything.
Joe：now it was time for some comedy relief
The guy with the baby casket.
Must have seen a thing or two, that chimp,
Shame it was to late to ask it
Norma：have you got to the scene where she
Asks for his head？
If she can't have him living, She'll
take him dead.
They bring in his head on a silver tray.
She kisses his mouth. it's a great
Screenplay!
Joe：it got to be eleven, I was feeling ill
What the hell was I doing？
Melodrama and sweet champagne
And a garbled plot from a scrambled brain;
But I had my one plot brewing.
Just how old is Salome？
Norma：Sixteen.
Joe：could be it's a little long
Maybe the opening's wrong
But it's extremely good for a beginner.
Norma：no, it's a perfect start,
I wrote that with my heart
The riverbank, the Baptist, and the sinner.
Joe：shouldn't there be some dialogue？
Norma：I can say anything I want with my eyes.
Joe：it could use a few cuts.
Norma：I will not have it butchered!
Joe：I'm not talking limb from limb,
I just mean a little trim
All you need is someone who can edit.
Norma：I want someone with a knack
Not just any studio hack
And don't think for a minute I'll share
Credit!
6.Surrender
Lyricist：Marc James
Every mornin' when I wake up
In the evenin' when I go to bed
Thank the Lord because He's keepin' me
Safe from even things that I cannot see
He's a father, He's a brother
And His spirit is a friend of mine
And He sent me here to talk to you
He wants you to know that He loves you too
(Anything that you need)
He's got it
(Everything that you want)
You'll find it in His word
That let's you know that it can be yours
Anything you ask for
(If you know like I know)
You feel it in your soul
(If you feel it in your soul)
That empty space inside of you
Let Him fill you up
Now put your hands up surrender
If you never felt like this before
If you know He's brought you through the storm
Raise your hands up to the sky
And tell Him I surrender
If you know that day you should've died
But His mercies brought you out alright
Raise your hands up to the sky
And tell Him I surrender
Without His love I wouldn't be here
Wraps me up till I have no fear
He's been what you need all through the years
Even as a child when it wasn't in
He protects me and He keeps me
And there's nothin' that I'll ever need
That He hasn't already done for me
Even as far as my eyes can see
(Anything that you need)
Yeah I'm
(Everything that you want)
You'll find it in His word
That let's you know that it can be yours
Anything you ask for
(If you know like I know)
You feel it in your soul
(If you feel it in your soul)
That empty space inside of you
Let Him fill you up
Now put your hands up surrender
If you never felt like this before
If you know He's brought you through the storm
Raise your hands up to the sky
And tell Him I surrender
If you know that day you should've died
But His mercies brought you out alright
Raise your hands up to the sky
And tell Him I surrender
When you catch yourself a back up
(God'll say I miss you)
Baby boy where have you been？
(Little girl He still loves you)
He hasn't changed His mind
(One guarantee He comes back)
(He'll be standin' for you)
Till when you called His name
That night when you whispered
(I surrender)
I surrender, I surrender oh oh
(I surrender oh, oh)
Oh oh
(I surrender oh, oh)
Oh oh
Lord forgive me, I surrender
If you never felt like this before
If you know He's brought you through the storm
Raise your hands up to the sky
And tell Him I surrender
If you know that day you should've died
But His mercies brought you out alright
Raise your hands up to the sky
And tell Him I surrender
If you never felt like this before
If you know He's brought you through the storm
Raise your hands up to the sky
And tell Him I surrender
If you know that day you should've died
But His mercies brought you out alright
Raise your hands up to the sky
And tell Him I surrender
7.The Greatest Star Of All
Max：once,
You won't remember
If you said Hollywood, hers was the face
You'd think of.
Her face on every billboard,
In just a single week she'd get ten
Thousand letters.
Men would offer
Fortunes for a bloom from her corsage
Or a few strands from her hair.
Today
She's half forgotten,
But it's the pictures that got small.
She is the greatest star of all.
Then,
You can't imagine,
The way fans sacrificed themselves
To touch her shadow.
There was
A maharaja
Who hanged himself with one of her
Discarded stockings.
She's immortal,
Caught inside that flickering light
Beam
Is a youth that cannot fade.
Madame's
A living legend;
I've seen so many idols fall
She is the greatest star off all.
8.The Lady's Paying
Norma：Hurry up, the birthday boy is on his way.
This is a surprise celbration
I hope you've remembered everything I said
I want to see a total transformation.
Joe：what's all this？
Norma：Happy birthday, darling. Did you think we'd forgotten？
Joe：Well, thanks I...
Norma：These people are from the best men shops in town. I had
them
close it
down for the day.
Joe： Norma, now listen...
Norma：I'll leave you boys to it..
Manfred：Happy birthday, welcome to your
Shopathon!
Joe：What's going on？
Manfred：Help yourself, it's all been taken care of.
Anyone who's anyone is dressed by me
Joe：Well, golly gee.
Manfred：Pick out anything you'd like a pair of
You just point, I'll do the rest
I've brought nothing but the best
You're a very lucky writer
Come along now, get undressed
Unless I'm much mistaken
That's a 42-inch chest
Joe：I don't understand a word you're saying.
Manfred：well, all you need to know's the lady's paying.
It's nice to get your just reward this time of
Year.
Joe：get outa here!
Manfred：And all my merchandise is strictly kosher.
When you've thrown away all your old
Worn-out stuff.
Joe：Hey, that's enough
Manfred：perhaps you'd like to model for my
Brochure.
I have just the thing for you.
Chalk-stripe suits
1st s／man：In black
2nd s／man：Or blue
3rd s／man：Green plaid trousers
4th s／man：Cashmere sweaters
5th s／man：Bathing shorts for Malibu
6th s／man：Here's a patent leather lace-up
it's a virtuoso shoe.
Manfred：And a simply marvelous coat made of
Vicuna.
Joe：You know what you can do with your
Vicuna.
Norma：Come on Joe, you haven't even started yet.
Joe：You wanna bet？
Norma：I thought by know you'd look the height of
Fashion.
He always take forever making up his mind.
(To Joe)Don't be unkind
I thought you writers knew about
Compassion.
I love flannel on a man
Manfred：This will compliment his tan.
Norma：we'll take two of these and four of those
Manfred：I'm still your greatest fan!
Very soon i'll will have stopped him
Looking Like an also-ran
Joe：you're going to make me sorry that I'm
Staying.
Norma：well, all right, I'll choose, after all, I'm
Paying.
Manfred：Evening clothes？
Norma：I want to see your most deluxe
Joe：won't wear a tux
Norma：of course not, dear, tuxedos are for
Waiters.
Manfred：What we need are tails, a white tie and top
Hat
Joe：I can't wear that.
Norma：Joe, second rate clothes are for second-
Raters
I'm sick to death of that
Same old station filling shirt
And that boring baggy jacket
Stained with yesterday's dessert
Joe：I don't have to go to premiers
I'm never on display.
You seem to forget that I'm a writer
Who cares what you wear when you're a
Writer？
Norma：I care, Joe, and please don't be so mean
To me.
Joe：O.K. all right
Norma：you'll be prince charming at my new year's
Party.
Joe：I've been invited somewhere else on new
Year's eve.
Norma：But that's our night.
Joe：I always see the new year in with Artie.
Norma：I can't do without you, Joe, I need you
I sent out every single invitation.
Joe：All right, Norma, I give in
Norma：of course you do.
And when they've dressed you, you'll cause
A sensation.
Salesmen：We equip the chosen few of movieland.
Manfred：(The latest cut)
Salesmen：we dress every movie star and crooner.
From their shiny toecaps to your hatband
Manfred：(Conceal your gut)
You won't regret selecting the Vicuna.
Salesmen：If you need a hand to shake
If there's a girl you want to make
If there's a soul you're out to capture
Or a heart you want to break
If you want the world to love you
Manfred：You'll have to learn to take
Samlesmen：You must decide what part you are
Portraying.
Manfred：And certain parts are worth the lady
Paying.
Salesmen：And why not have it all, the lady's paying？
9.The Perfect Year
Norma：Ring out the old
Ring in the new,
A midnight wish
To share with you
Your lips are warm
My head is light;
Were we alive
Before tonight？
I don't need a crowded ballroom
Everything I want is here
If you're with me
Next year will be
The perfect year.
Joe：before we play
Some dangerous game,
Before we fan
Some harmless flame,
We have to ask
If this is wise
And if the game
Is worth the prize.
With this wine and with this music,
How can anything be clear？
Let's wait and see
It may just be
The perfect year.
Norma：it's new year's eve
And hopes are high,
Dance one years in,
Kiss on goodbye.
Another chance,
Another start,
So many dreams
To tease the heart.
We don't need a crowded ballroom
Everything we want is here
And face to face
We will embrace
The perfect year. (reprise)
10.This Time Next Year
Dawn：By this time next year
I'll have landed a juicy part
Steve：Nineteen fifty will be my start
Richard T.：No more carrying spears
Mary：I'll be discovered
My life won't ever be the same
Billy wilder will know my name
And he'll call all the time
Katherine：till he does can one of you guys
Lend her a dime？
Alisa：Just an apartment
With no roaches and no dry rot
Anita：where the hot water comes out hot
Both：That's my Hollywood dream
Joanna：My resolution
is to write something that gets shot
With approximately the plot
I first had in my head
Myron：But you'll get rewritten
Even after your dead.
Artie：It's the year to begin a new life,
Buy a place somewhere quiet,
Somewhere pretty.
When you have a young kid and a wife
Then you need somewhere green far
From the city.
It's a rambling old house with
A big apple tree
With a swing for the kid and a hammock
For me.
Sammy：Behold, my children
It is I, Cecil B. DeMille
Meeting me must be quite a thrill,
Adam：But there's no need to kneal.
Sammy：I guarantee you
Every girl in my chorus line
Is a genuine philistine
Adam ：they don't come off the shelf
Sammy：I flew everyone in from philistia myself.
Joe：how's your next project？
Betty：Sheldrake's anxious to option it
I've a feeling he smells a hit
We've got so much to do.
Joe：Betty, you're forgetting that I gave it to
You.
You remind me of me long ago
Off the bus, full of ignorant ambition
Thought I'd waltz into some studio
And achieve overnight recognition.
But an audience thinks when it's watching
The screen. That the actors make up every word
In the scene.
Betty：I've done an outline,
But I can't write it on my own
Can't we speak on the telephone？
All my evenings are free.
Artie：Hey just a minute
I'm the fellow who bought the ring
Betty：Artie, this is a business thing
It's important to me
You'll be on location in Clinch
Tennessee.
Please make this your new year
Resolution for me.
All：by this time next year,
I will get my foot in the door
Next year I know I'm going to score
An amazing success
Cut to the moment
When they open the envelope
Pass the statuette to Bob Hope
And It's my name they hear
We'll be down on our knees
Outside Grauman's Chinese
Palm prints there on the street
Immortality's neat!
This time next year
This time next year
We'll have nothing to fear
Contracts all signed
Three-picture deal
Yellow brick road career
Hope we're not still saying these things
This time next year.
11.With One Look
Norma：With one look
I can brake your heart
With one look
I play every part
I can make your poor heart sing
With one look you'll know
All you need to know
With one look
I'm the girl next door
Or the love that you've hungered for
When I speak it's with my soul
I can play any role
No words can tell
The story my eyes tell
Watch me when I frown
You can't right that down
You know I'm right
It's there in black and white
When I look your way
You'll hear what I say.
Yes, with one look
I put words to shame
Just one look
Sets the screen aflame
Silent music starts to play
One tear in my eye
Makes the whole world cry.
With one look
They'll forgive the past
They'll rejoice： I've returned at last
To my people in the dark
Still out there in the dark...
Silent music starts to play
With one look you'll know
All you need to know
With one look
I'll ignite a blaze
I'll return to my glory days
They'll say Norma's back at last.
This time I'm staying
I'm staying for good
I'll be back
Where I was born to be
With one look
I'll be me.
12.Prologue
Lyricist：Andrew Lloyd-webber, Tim Rice
Once upon a time, in a far away land
A young Prince lived in a shining castle
Although he had everything his heart desired
The Prince was spoiled, selfish and unkind
But then, one winter's night
An old beggar woman came to the castle
And offered him a single rose
In return for shelter from the bitter cold
Repulsed by her haggard appearance
The Prince sneered at the Gift
And turned the old woman away
But she warned him not to be deceived by appearances
For Beauty is found within
And when he dismissed her again
The old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful
enchantress
The prince tried to apologize
But it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in
his heart
And as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast
And placed a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived
there
Ashamed of his monstrous form
The beast concealed himself inside his castle
With a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world
The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose
Which would bloom until his twenty-first year
If he could learn to love another
And earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell
Then the spell would be broken
If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time
As the years passed
He fell into despair and lost all hope
For who could ever learn to love a beast
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