Stephen Sondheim
I’m Like the Bluebird
[NARRATOR, spoken]
Our setting is the main square of a town that is so broke, only a miracle can save it. Look at it's citizens, it'll take another miracle to make them human again. Or perhaps, the same one.
[BABY JOAN]
I'm like the bluebird
I should worry, I should care
I should be a millionaire
I'm like the blue—AAH!
[NARRATOR, spoken]
There is one place in this town that's still doing business. That's the Cookie Jar, a sanitorium for the socially pressured. Those Cookies look as good as you, maybe better! Our heroine is the head nurse. Run along, Cookies!
[WOMAN]
Help
[ALL]
Help
[MAN]
Hungry
[ALL]
Hungry
Cold, cold
Poor, poor
[NARRATOR, spoken]
Where is all the town's money? Where it usually is! In City Hall
That snoop's got some of it
That moron's got some of it
That operator's got some of it, but his eye is on the main chunk, and here she is!