Changing Lives
[OLIVIA KEATING, spoken]
It's Olivia Keating of Broadway Mania and we're here for the opening night of Eleanor, the Eleanor Roosevelt musical, starring the incomparable Dee Dee Allen and Barry Glickman
[BARRY, spoken]
Let's talk process
(sung)
When I'm in character
I go insane
I stagger, I stammer, I sob
I make the audiences feel my pain
And if they don't leave depressed
Then I've not done my job
[DEE DEE]
Each time I find a role like Eleanor
The artist inside of me thrives
I put on that wig
And those prosthetic teeth
And know I'm changing lives
By the time I get tuberculosis in Act Two
[BARRY]
Even the people who are dead inside
[BOTH]
Will Shout
'Bravo!'
On Cue
[BARRY, spoken]
The first review is in!
The New Jersey Star-Ledger
[DEE DEE, spoken]
No, don't tell me
... What does it say?
[BARRY, spoken]
It says we're a hit!
(sung)
We're a hit and I think we deserve it!
[DEE DEE]
That's for sure
[BARRY]
Also it means that this tour de force
Will not be forced to tour
[DEE DEE, spoken]
To Eleanor!
May she run for eternity!
[ENSEMBLE]
To Eleanor!
[ALL]
Cheers to a show that's so inspiring
It's almost too much to sit through
And if we've won that might mean one more thing
[BARRY]
That in ten years or so, we'll do Eleanor 2!
[DEE DEE]
I can predict what the reviews will say
Before the next note has arrived
It's ground-breaking
[ENSEMBLE]
Earth-Shaking
[BARRY]
Life-affirming
[ENSEMBLE]
Breath-taking
[BARRY and DEE DEE]
Gut-wrenching
[ALL]
Heart-aching
[BARRY and DEE DEE]
In two words it's
[ALL]
History-making
[BARRY and DEE DEE]
That's why every actor strives
[ALL]
For adulation
And compensation
That comes from nightly
Changing Lives
[BARRY, spoken]
It's just what we do
It's Olivia Keating of Broadway Mania and we're here for the opening night of Eleanor, the Eleanor Roosevelt musical, starring the incomparable Dee Dee Allen and Barry Glickman
[BARRY, spoken]
Let's talk process
(sung)
When I'm in character
I go insane
I stagger, I stammer, I sob
I make the audiences feel my pain
And if they don't leave depressed
Then I've not done my job
[DEE DEE]
Each time I find a role like Eleanor
The artist inside of me thrives
I put on that wig
And those prosthetic teeth
And know I'm changing lives
By the time I get tuberculosis in Act Two
[BARRY]
Even the people who are dead inside
[BOTH]
Will Shout
'Bravo!'
On Cue
[BARRY, spoken]
The first review is in!
The New Jersey Star-Ledger
[DEE DEE, spoken]
No, don't tell me
... What does it say?
[BARRY, spoken]
It says we're a hit!
(sung)
We're a hit and I think we deserve it!
[DEE DEE]
That's for sure
[BARRY]
Also it means that this tour de force
Will not be forced to tour
[DEE DEE, spoken]
To Eleanor!
May she run for eternity!
[ENSEMBLE]
To Eleanor!
[ALL]
Cheers to a show that's so inspiring
It's almost too much to sit through
And if we've won that might mean one more thing
[BARRY]
That in ten years or so, we'll do Eleanor 2!
[DEE DEE]
I can predict what the reviews will say
Before the next note has arrived
It's ground-breaking
[ENSEMBLE]
Earth-Shaking
[BARRY]
Life-affirming
[ENSEMBLE]
Breath-taking
[BARRY and DEE DEE]
Gut-wrenching
[ALL]
Heart-aching
[BARRY and DEE DEE]
In two words it's
[ALL]
History-making
[BARRY and DEE DEE]
That's why every actor strives
[ALL]
For adulation
And compensation
That comes from nightly
Changing Lives
[BARRY, spoken]
It's just what we do