Let Me Be Your Star (Bombshell Opening)

[ENSEMBLE]
Here she is, Miss Marilyn Monroe!
Yes, she's the new sensation that our readers want to know!

[FEMALE ENSEMBLE]
We've waited for a goddess

[MALE ENSEMBLE]
A star to fill our nights

[ENSEMBLE]
But waiting time is over
'Cause now Marilyn is there in lights!

[IVY, spoken]
Sorry I'm late, boys. I've been on calendars, but I've never been on time

[REPORTER #1]
Miss Monroe! How does it feel to be called the sexiest woman in the world?

[IVY, spoken]
Well, I'd rather be looked over than overlooked

[REPORTER #2]
Marilyn, is it true you wear nothing in bed?

[IVY]
Of course not - I wear Chanel No. 5
[sung] Fade in on a girl with a hunger for fame
And a face and a name to remember
Her past fades away because as of this day
Well, that girl is dead, I'm looking ahead
Her smile and your fantasies play a duet
That will make you forget where you are
The music starts playing, her heart's saying
"Let me be your star"

[IVY, ENSEMBLE]
Fade in on a man all alone in the dark
'Til her gaze turns a spark into fire
(Ooh...) It takes just one glance of her style and romance
To fill up his soul, this (Ah...)

[IVY, ENSEMBLE]
Girl's in control!

[IVY]
Some gentlemen say

[IVY, ENSEMBLE]
A brunette is a must

[IVY]
Or that redheads are just

[IVY, ENSEMBLE]
Wunderbar

[IVY]
But if blonde's your preferring, my heart's purring
"Let me be your star"

I'll just have to forget the girl I used to love

[IVY, ENSEMBLE]
Forget poor Norma Jean

[IVY]
The past is what I'm rising above

[IVY, ENSEMBLE]
The future is there
Onscreen!

[ENSEMBLE]
Ah...

[IVY]
That's me onscreen!

[ENSEMBLE]
That's her onscreen!

[IVY]
Happy birthday, Mr. President...

[ENSEMBLE]
Dissolve to her face on a Hollywood night
As she stands in the light that surrounds her

[IVY]
In a crowd full of men, and the ones she knew when
They ask

[ENSEMBLE]
"Could it be?"

[IVY]
Yeah, suckers, it's me!

[ENSEMBLE]
She turns on the glow as the fans start to cheer
It's her name that you hear near and far

[IVY, ENSEMBLE]
I'm what you've been needing (You're all that we need)
That's the sound of my heart pleading:
"Let me be your star" (Our star)
Your star! (Won't you be our star?)