Original London Cast of Fame
Hard Work
[MISS SHERMAN - spoken]
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you for auditioning. We'll be letting you know in a few weeks. Good luck!

[ENSEMBLE MEMBER]
Pray, pray pray
I pray I make P.A
I pray I make...
I pray I make P.A

[ENSEMBLE MEMBER]
Pray, pray pray
I pray I make P.A
I pray I make...
I pray I make P.A

[ENSEMBLE MEMBER]
Pray, pray pray
I pray I make P.A

[ENSEMBLE MEMBER]
I pray I make...
[ENSEMBLE MEMBER]
I pray I make...

[ENSEMBLE]
P.A
Pray, pray
Pray, pray, pray, pray
I pray I make P.A
I pray I make P.A
I pray I make...
I pray I make...
I pray I make P.A

[ENSEMBLE MEMBER]
I made it. I made it!

[MISS SHERMAN - spoken]
Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to P.A. - the high school of performing arts. I'm your homeroom teacher, Miss Sherman

[ENSEMBLE]
This ain't no movie show
Playing in a theatre or a video
Fantasy, I was always hot to see
On the TV!
I'm so hot, hot to trot
I can hardly wait to show them what I got
Wonder who'll come out shinning like a jewеl
In the fame school
[MISS SHERMAN - spoken with ENSEMBLE SOLOISTS and ENSEMBLE SOLOISTS]
Everyonе quiet please! QUIET!
Thank you. Anyone late better have a pass
I'll be gone
Just let me warn you- Where's the John?
If you're here believing you're going to live forever or envision dancing on top of cars down 46th Street, you are humming the wrong tune. Man they got me running in a marathon
Can't slow up
This is still a public school. I don't care how well you perform, if you don't give your academic subjects equal time, you're out!
I'll go home and not show up!
Maybe throw up!
Class to class, try to pass
Learning who the teachers are
You bust your ass
Feeling small, feeling up against the wall during roll call

[MISS SHERMAN - spoken]
When I call you, please answer to your name. Diaz, Carmen!

[CARMEN - spoken]
That's me!

[MISS SHERMAN - spoken]
Katz, Serena!

[SERENA - spoken]
Here..
[MISS SHERMAN - spoken]
Speak up dear, you are in Drama aren't you?
Lamb, Grace!

[GRACE - spoken]
Here! Here! Sorry I'm late, the bus had a flat, I missed the ferry - see I come from the end of the world, Staton Island!

[MISS SHERMAN - spoken]
Miss Lamb that's no excuse!

[GRACE - spoken]
I know, it's a curse!

[MISS SHERMAN - spoken with ENSEMBLE ]
Here we are, Metzenbaum, Schlomo?

[SCHLOMO - spoken with ENSEMBLE ]
Yeah, Schlomo here. So bizarre

[MISS SHERMAN - spoken with ENSEMBLE ]
No hats unless you're orthodox!
This is where they show you, Piazza, Nicholas!

[NICK - spoken with ENSEMBLE ]
Present! How to be a star

[MISS SHERMAN - spoken with ENSEMBLE ]
I can't wait, Jackson, Tyrone!
I can't even concentrate, Jackson, Tyrone!!
I'll just pulsate! Vegas, José!

[JOE - spoken]
That's Joe. Joe. I'd like to thank my producers Pepe and Maria Vegas of the South Bronx for all their efforts!

[MISS SHERMAN - spoken]
Quiet!

[TYRONE - spoken]
Yo, I'm Tyrone Jackson, am I in the right place?

[MISS SHERMAN - spoken]
You're in the right place, but at the wrong time, Mr Jackson!
Are you going to the beach or are you coming to school?
And no headphones in class! Pick them up at the end of the day

[TYRONE - spoken]
Don't get on my case woman, it's my first day!

[MISS SHERMAN - spoken]
Keep this up and it could be your last. And the name is not "woman", it's Miss Sherman!

[ENSEMBLE]
I'm alive and I will survive
Show the world, that I can take it
When I hit the heights, put my name in lights
Show the world, that I can make it
By doing...

[MR MYERS - spoken with ENSEMBLE ]
Acting takes more than talent and determination, it requires solid technique. The first two years we will deal with discovery of self. By doing...
Who you are. You have to be in touch with your own emotions if you want to touch others

[MS BELL - spoken with ENSEMBLE ]
You will study Ballet, Modern, Folk, Jazz. There will be injuries, that is to be expected. Doing...
Dance is the core of life, dance is our salvation. Movement, touch, expression. Woah...doing...

[MR SHEINKOPF - spoken with ENSEMBLE ]
You will learn to construct harmonies, then sight-reading, melodic dictation, elementary piano, music history. Woah...woah...doing...
You will comprehend the genius of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart-

[GRACE - spoken]
Pink Floyd!