Broadway Baby
[Verse 1]
I'm just a Broadway baby
Walkin' off my tired feet
Poundin' Forty-second Street
To be in a show
[Verse 2]
Broadway baby
Learnin' how to sing and dance
Waitin' for that one big chance
To be in a show
[Interlude]
The first Broadway show I ever saw
Was a musical written by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Hal Prince
Playing at the Alvin Theatre
That show was Company
I think I was nine or ten at the time
Probably not the target age for that show
But I knew then and there that I wanted to be on Broadway
[Bridge]
Gee
I'd like to be
On some marquee
All twinkle and lights
A spark
To pierce the dark
From Battery Park
To Washington Hеights
[Verse 3]
Someday, maybe
All my dreams will bе repaid
Heck, I'd even play the maid
To be in a show
[Interlude]
So, when I was eighteen years old
I left my hometown Chicago
And moved to New York City to pursue my dream
Now, New York was expensive
So in between going to classes and auditions
I got a job as a singing waitress
I was a horrible waitress
But at least it paid the bills
[Verse 4]
I'm just a Broadway baby
Slavin' at a five-and-ten
Dreamin' of the great day when
I'll be in a show
[Verse 5]
Broadway baby
Makin' rounds all afternoon
Eatin' at a greasy spoon
To save on my dough
[Bridge]
At
My tiny flat
There's just my cat
A bed and a chair
Still
I'll stick it till
I'm on a bill
All over Times Square!
[Interlude]
After what seemed like hundreds of auditions and hundreds of rejections
One day I got a call to audition for a new musical
Called Merrily We Roll Along
Now, the breakdown was very specific
They were looking for young people under the age of twenty-one
So, I stapled my birth certificate to my resume and off I went
Now that first audition led to another
And then another, and then another
Finally, after five callbacks I got the job
I was gonna be on Broadway!
And not only that, I was going to be making my Broadway debut
In a musical written by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Hal Prince
And playing at the Alvin Theatre!
[Verse 6]
Someday maybe
If I stick it long enough
I may get to strut my stuff
Working for two nice men
I'm with Hal Prince and Steve Sondheim
In a great big
Broadway show!