Original Broadway Cast of Tootsie, Santino Fontana, Reg Rogers - Opening Number lyrics

The night is falling on Manhattan
And soon the daylight will be gone
Anticipation's all around you
As one by one the lights are coming on

And your feet wanna fly
And your pulse wants to raise
'Cause your free and you're young
And you're in the right place
You're right here you're right now
You're a part of New York
As the night comes alive
In the heart of New York

Nothing more exciting nowhere more delicious
Everything's inviting everything's the best
Every soul is soaring everyone's ambitious
No one here is boring nothing in the world
Is like the feeling

The feeling that anything is possible here
Even the impossible is possibly possible in

New York

You dream when you're awake any dream can be
A dream come true in

New York

Underneath this city that is all pavement
Is a city that's all heart

God, this is exciting don't you feel giddy
Man, there is nothing like it
Boy, this is the best

Stop

Now your light is shining

Stop

Wow, this is a city

Stop

Stop

Ron ron
Ron

Stop

Ron

Alright everybody, let's all stop
The rehearsal again
Because -because Mitchell has
Another compelling question

It's Michael dorsey and would
My character say
"The city is all heart"? He is a
Traumatized war vet evicted
From his rent-controlled
Apartment during the sewage baked
Heat of summer all heart? I don't think so

Where in the history of the printed libretto
Does it say any of that?

It's the back story I gave him

Backstory? He- he doesn't even have a
Name! He's "Guy Who Walks By"

My character deserves his truth i
Am just saying what
Every other actor on this stage is thinking

Lovey, this is a Ron
Carlisle show, my vision
Me creating a living aggregate
Out of the imagination
Of nothing you want out? You're out

Of the whole song?

Ha, of the whole show of any show I ever do
In the pantheon of ever and
Then even after that, after that

This opening number is benign and
Dishonest, directed by an inept
Derivative hack and this musical sucks

This is the tale of Michael Dorsey
He is the center of the plot is he an actor?
Yes, of course, he is is he successful?
Yes, of course, he's not

That doesn't mean he isn't real good
No one in town would disagree
He really could be good as Gielgud
But, you won't see his name on the marquee

Carla, I threw it all away for you
Just to cross that bridge, Carla
That damn grey bridge

That's fine Mr dorsey
We're looking for someone younger

Oh, I can be younger

Actually, We're looking for someone shorter

Oh wait see, I can be shorter

Actually, were looking for somebody different

Sounds to me like you don't know
What the hell you're looking for

We're looking for somebody else get out!

And now there is something quite familiar
He feels it rising like the moon
He's feeling victimized and bitter
Like nothing good is gonna happen soon
The odor of humiliation
Begins to permeate the room
The putrid stench of it surrounds him like
An inexpensive prostitute's perfume

Mommy, daddy, come quick
Something's wrong with Biscuit
He was chasing his tail
And then he fell down the well

That's good, but can you do it happier?

Happier? The kid's dog just plunged down
A well to it's death why would he be happy?

'Cuz Im the director
And that's how the playwright wrote it

Then tell the playwright he's wrong

I'm also the playwright get out!

And his feet start to throb
And his head starts to ache
As he can't get a job
And he can't catch a break

But he's free and he's young

He's not young

Yeah, that's true

All that they want is someone
Who's exactly not you!

Someone more exciting
Someone more attractive
Someone they can deal with not a snotty jerk
They need someone nicer
Someone less reactive
Can you really blame them?
Will he ever work?

Get out!

Wow, he's batting zero
Dude, he's so pathetic
How does he keep going maybe he should stop
No! It's gonna happen
Soon they'll all be clapping
Soon he's gonna make it
He's gonna make it to the top
He's gonna make it to the top
He's gonna make it to the

No more orders kitchen's closed!

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