Original Cast: Montage Part 1 Hello Twelve Mark Connie

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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