Intro: We Are Being Recorded... (Live)

[Laura Benanti, spoken]
Can I just say how much I love singing with Todd Almond? Every time he starts singing, I get chills. So, this next song was written by… Todd Almond. And Sarah Ruhl. And before he explains it to you, I'm going to give you another little known fact about Studio 54. Are you guys ready? Are you ready for the fact, sir? Are you ready? Okay. Did you know that right in that corner, right over there, Liza Minnelli gave birth to a baby entirely made of glitter? (Audience laughs.) That's just science. (Audience laughs. Audience member reacts. Laura laughs.) Did you just say it's scary?! I hope you guys know- I want you guys to know that we are being recorded. This is going to be a live CD. (Audience applauds.) Yeah. Right?! Now you're gonna perk up! Right?! (Audience laughs.) Yeah. All that laughter and good breathing and shoutouts. I'm gonna have to get your name for later, 'cause you're gonna have to be in the… in the thank you's. Okay, go ahead. I'm sorry.

[Todd Almond, spoken]
Alright, that's okay. It's your show. (Audience laughs.) So, Laura in this song is playing a character named Tilly. And Tilly- it's a contemporary musical, but Tilly lives in a kind of old fashioned state of melancholy. The kind of state of melancholy you would ready about in a 19th century novel. And people are baffled by it and often very attracted to it and she gets into a lot of trouble because of it, and she tries to explain in this moment to a couple of friends of hers just what it feels like.