‘[title of show]’ Original Cast & Heidi Blickenstaff & Hunter Bell & Susan Blackwell & Jeff Bowen
Jeff Bowen & Hunter Bell & Jeff Bowen
Jeff Bowen & Jeff Bowen
‘[title of show]’ Original Cast & Hunter Bell & Jeff Bowen & Heidi Blickenstaff & Susan Blackwell
Jeff Bowen & Jeff Bowen & Hunter Bell
Jeff Bowen & Jeff Bowen & Hunter Bell
Jeff Bowen & Heidi Blickenstaff & Susan Blackwell & Hunter Bell & Jeff Bowen
Jeff Bowen & Susan Blackwell & Heidi Blickenstaff
‘[title of show]’ Original Cast & Hunter Bell & Jeff Bowen & Heidi Blickenstaff & Susan Blackwell
‘[title of show]’ Original Cast & Heidi Blickenstaff & Susan Blackwell & Hunter Bell & Jeff Bowen
‘[title of show]’ Original Cast & Heidi Blickenstaff & Susan Blackwell & Hunter Bell & Jeff Bowen
Jeff Bowen & Heidi Blickenstaff & Susan Blackwell
Jeff Bowen & Heidi Blickenstaff
‘[title of show]’ Original Cast & Susan Blackwell & Hunter Bell & Jeff Bowen & Heidi Blickenstaff
‘[title of show]’ Original Cast & Jeff Bowen & Hunter Bell & Susan Blackwell & Heidi Blickenstaff
‘[title of show]’ Original Cast & Hunter Bell & Heidi Blickenstaff & Susan Blackwell & Jeff Bowen
As the title suggests, this is the opening number for the musical. The song establishes the “meta” awareness that’s consistent throughout the show by describing what an opening number usually sounds like.
[JEFF]
A, D, D, D, D, F sharp, A
Will be the first notes of our show
[HUNTER]
We’ll start with the seed of an idea
[BOTH]
Then plant it on a paper
With a Dixon Ticonderoga
And then watch it sprout into a musical
And then we’ll help to make it grow
Bigger
Nothing guarantees it will stand out
And its future is unknown
[JEFF]
So in the meantime, we will schedule
A lot of meetings in Hell’s Kitchen
[HUNTER]
To collaborate in my living room
[BOTH]
But we can’t do it all alone
[HEIDI AND SUSAN]
So
[JEFF AND HUNTER/ HEIDI AND SUSAN]
We’ll get together all our friends/ Ahh
And exploit all of their talents/ Ahh
We’ll explore the latest trends/ Ahh
And avoid them when we balance the/ Ahh
[JEFF AND HUNTER]
Book with the score
[HEIDI AND SUSAN]
Book with the score
[ALL]
The score with a lyric
Appealing to the judge
These are shapes
Gently nudging the satiric
[JEFF, HEIDI, AND SUSAN]
Ahh
[HUNTER/ JEFF, HEIDI, AND SUSAN]
We’re trying hard not to duplicate/ Ooo
What we’ve seen and heard before/ Ooo
And if Bartok’s here, he’ll appreciate/ Ooo
If we’re inventive with the score/ Ooo
[ALL]
So we’ll put in a syncopation
And we’ll add a quarter note
And we’ll softly start the coda from a very tiny point
And then we’ll get a little louder to further emphasize the point
And then we’ll cross downstage toward you
[JEFF AND SUSAN]
And now we yell in fortissimo-
[HUNTER]
Yell in fortissimo-
[HEIDI]
Yell in fortissimo-
[ALL]
(Fortissim)o-oh-
It’s the opening song
It doesn’t have a title, no!
And it’s not very long
But it’s the starting point of our musical
And here’s the first scene of our musical
Untitled Opening Number was written by Jeff Bowen.
Untitled Opening Number was produced by Joel Moss & Kurt Deutsch.