Pray I Make P.A. / Hard Work

I Want to Make Magic .......... Gavin Creel

Can't Keep It Down

Tyrone's Rap .......... Dwayne Chattman

There She Goes! / Fame

Let's Play a Love Scene .......... Jennifer Gambatese

Bring on Tomorrow .......... Natasha Rennalls

Teacher's Argument .......... Kim Cea

Hard Work (Reprise)

I Want To Make Magic (Reprise)

Mabel's Prayer

Think of Meryl Streep .......... Jennifer Gambatese

Dancin' On The Sidewalk

These Are My Children .......... Regina Le Vert

In LA .......... Natasha Rennalls

Let's Play A Love Scene (Reprise)

Bring On Tomorrow (Reprise)

Curtain Calls: Hardwork / Fame (Reprise)

Pray, pray, pray
I pray I make P.A.
I pray I make
I pray I make P.A.

Pray, pray, pray
I pray I make P.A.
I pray I make
I pray I make P.A.

Pray, pray, pray
I pray I make P.A.
I pray I make
I pray I make P.A.

Pray, pray
Pray, pray
Pray, pray
Pray, pray

I pray I make P.A.
I pray I make
I pray I make P.A.

Make P.A.

I'm so hot, hot to trot
I can hardly wait to show them what I got
Wonder who'll come out shinin' like a jewel
In the 'Fame' school

I'll be gone
Where's the John
Man they got me running
like a marathon

Can't slow up
I'll go home and not show up
Maybe throw up!

Class to class, tryin' to pass
learnin' who the teachers are,
who bust your ass
Feelin' small, feelin' up against the wall
during roll call

Here we are
So bizarre
This is where they show you
How to be a star

I can't wait
I can't even concentrate
I just pulsate

I'm alive and I will survive
Show the world that I can take it
When I hit the heights
Put my name in lights

Show the world that I can make it
By doin'....
By doin'....
doin'...

Wowowo wowowo doin'...
Wowowo wowowo doin'...
By doin', doin'
By doin' hard work
By doin' hard work
By doin' hard work

Acting is the hardest profession in the world, hard work!
The hardest profession in the world

Dance is the hardest profession in the world
The hardest profession in the world, hard work!

Music is the hardest profession in the world
The hardest profession in the world, hard work!

I'm alive and I will survive
Show the world that I can take it
When I hit the heights
Put my name in lights
Show the world that I can make it

By doin', doin', doin', doin'.........
By doin' hard work
By doin' hard work
Hard work!

I want to make magic
I want to be bigger than I am
I want to make people really care
Really give a damn

I want to make magic
I want to breathe fire on the stage
I want to make every single line
Jump right off the page

I want to do it all from A to Z
I want to do 'The Lion in Winter'
Brecht and Harold Pinter
Sophocles, Eugene O'Neill

I want to really see what I can be
Another Jason Robards or DeNiro
Play a tragic hero
Go for it all and really show the way I feel

I want to make magic
I want to electrify the place
I want to be more than just a fool
With make-up on his face

I want to make magic
Magic
Magic

You see there's this girl in dance
And every time I see her
Something just comes over me

Well, you know what it's like
When you wake up in the morning
And it's hard
Standing up straight at attention like the changing of the guard
Or how it is in a pornoshop
When you put your quarter in the slot
And you try to look cool
So nobody knows that your hot

You go to a club
And your high on to buying marihuana
And the singer in the band
Got all of her moves from Madonna
And you wanna

Or late at night you're in home in bed all alone
and it's cold out
You put your hand where it's warm
As you open up this January's fold out

Well that's how it is
When she's around
And i can't, no i can't
I can't keep it down

I can't keep it down
When that girl's around
I can't keep it under my control
I can't keep it keep it down
No no no no i can't

I wanna i wanna i wanna rock and roll!

-Teacher- All right mr. Vegas, the joke's over

+Joe Vegas+ I got another one! This one's REALLY painful

-Teacher- Alright go but I'm warning you!

Im thinking about the time in my life when i first learned what crying was
The first time I ever had to come face to face with what dying was
The relatives gathered all in black to mourn for my greataunt Antionitta
When who comes through the door to pay her respects but our cousin Conchitta

The tears in her eyes only made them look even more spanish
As i watched her I could swear i could feel the floor under me vanish
So she goes to them all and she finally comes over to me
and she kisses my cheek I lower my eyes i can hardly believe what I see
caus I'm looking down the front of her gown
and I can't, no I can't, I can't keep it down!
I can't keep it down
When that girl's around

I wanna i wanna i wanna rock 'n roll!
Rock 'n roll!
I wanna rock 'n roll!

Don't need no rich bitch, to tell me which
Fork to use, I paid my dues
In a rat-trap building called New York
Livin' off beans, greens, and pork
In a basement, tenement,
No one's got to tell me what it meant
To be black, Jack
Ace of spades
All the car-wash washers and day-work maids
Can't wash it off, never fades,
It's who you are until you're dead
Now ain't that a kick upside the head?
Yeah, I know about Pryor and Portier,
Can't get higher than Sugar Ray
Muhammed Ali and Doctor J
And 90% of the N.B.A.
Reggie Jackson, Jesse Jackson,
Michael and Mahaliah Jackson,
Now what's that got to do with me?
On the street the only thing I see is:
Crack dealers, pocketbook stealers,
Coke snorters, Time Square daughters,
Eight-year olds who dance for quarters,
And tokes, and two-line blows,
New Adidas and stereos!
That's us! That's it!
So don't be tellin' me all that shit!

There she goes
Ain't she the picture of a real live star?
You want to follow her whoever you are
And there she goes

She's passin' you
You better hurry if you wanna look
Maybe you'll get her in your autograph book
She's passin' you

Reach out to touch, don't be shy
There ain't no reason to be scared
No it's too much I can't look her in the eye
No I'm not prepared

I'm on top of the charts
I'm on top in their hearts
Look at them all
Look at the crowds
Everything is beautiful up here in the clouds

Fame the Musical
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
I feel it comin' together
People will see me and cry

Fame the Musical
I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame

Fame the Musical
I'm gonna live forever
Baby remember my name

Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember

Voy a vivir pa' siempre
Voy allegar a volar
Fame the Musical
estrella en todo'el cielo
que em pe zara a brillar

Voy a vivir pa' siempre
Voy allegar a volar, volar
estrella en todo'el cielo
Mira, Mira
Quiero brillar

I'm on top of the charts
I'm on top in their hearts
Look at the crowds
Look at them all
Ay mamacita mia, I'm havin' a ball

There she goes
There she goes
There she goes
There she goes
Now wouldn't anybody wish they were her
Wish they were her
And there she goes

Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember my name

We always seem to be
Sister and brotherly
It's such a lovely way to be

And I want to say
What it means to me
How I could ever be the same without you

And something more that I know
Though I never could show
How it kept right on growing

The way I know I really feel about you
The way I know I'll always fell about you
Why can't we, why can't we, why can't we try

To play a love scene
We don't need the violins to play a love scene
Where we see how love begins

If we could find a way to start
And learn to play the part
A perfect scene from a play unknown
Let's play a love scene, of our own

And I want to say what it means to me
How I could never be the same without you
And something more that I know
THough I never could show
How it kept right on growing

The way I know I really feel about you
The way I know I'll always feel about you
Why can't we, why can't we, why can't we try

To play a love scene
We don't need the violins to play a love scene
Where we see how love begins

Find a way to start and play it from the heart
A perfect scene from a play unknown
Let's play a love scene
Love scene of our own

We have arrived at a moment in our lives
When the future passes into out hands
We can find out, are we really strong enough
To fulfill what the future demands

We can stand on the edge
And look out into space
And be awed
By the wonders we see

We can all make a pledge
That the whole human race
Will become what we want it to be

Bring on tomorrow
Let it shine
Like the sun coming up on a beautiful day
It's yours and mine

We can make a difference
It's not too late
Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait

Long, long ago in a world we never made
We were children who were making believe
Closing our eyes
We were travelers in air
To a land we would not want to leave

But the fairy tale land, fades away as we grow
And we all have to say our goodbyes
And we now understand, that this world that we know
Can be ours if we open our eyes

Bring on tomorrow
Let it shine
Like the sun coming up on a beautiful day
It's yours and mine

We can make a difference
It's not too late
Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait

Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait
Bring on tomorrow
It's not too late

Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait
Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait

Bring on tomorrow
Let it shine
Like the sun coming up on a beautiful day
It's yours and mine

We can make a difference
It's not too late
Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait

Bring on tomorrow
We can't wait

(Miss Bell)
Artists are special celestial fools
first with the talent for breaking the rules
unfit for confinement in cubicle schools
artists are special

(Miss Sherman)
Artists are people not primitive fools
they learn what to do before breaking the rules
they know that the brain is the finest of tools
artists are people

(Both)
Whether in theatre or music or dance
they have to be given the chance

(Miss Bell)
to fly by the seat of their pants

(Miss Sherman)
to develop their minds and be nurtured

(Both)
like plants

(Miss Sherman)
Artists are part of the same human race
as everyone else in the same bloody place
you learn to survive or you fall on your face
artist or not
artist or not

(spoken)
Greta, you know that 90% of these kids
will never make a living in the arts
we have to prepare them for life
or what's Tyrone gonna do if he can't make it as a dancer
mop floors?

(Miss Bell)
Tyrone will make it

(sung)
I've seen them come and go for all these years
kids with no talent for anything more than carrying spears
another year another shipment
lacking the drive or the style or the basic eqipment
this one is different.

And i can see me there unremarkable me
the kid in the ballet class
the princess i wanted to be
tutu and point shoes
hair in a bun
completely unnoticed as if i were no-one

this one is different i tell you
this one can dance
this one is virtual i tell you
give him a chance

(spoken)
Tyrone will make it, he will

(Miss Sherman)
Fine, and i wish him luck
but this is an academic institution with academic standards
Oh i know,
we're the fame high school now
ever since that movie came out
they come here expecting to become stars
and you people think you run the show here
oh teach them to perform and who cares if they can read or write
who needs to write anyway
as long as they can sign their name on a contract

(Miss Bell)
and who are you?
defender of the true faith

(Miss Sherman)
Exactly!

(sung)
What did they tell me when i was a girl
Learn...
Day after day when i was a girl
Learn...
The land of dreams waits over the meadow
if you can find a way
out of the ghetto
learn, learn
put your faith in books
that will protect you
put your faith in books
and a mind of your own
neither charm or looks
will make them respect you
you must learn to stand
you must learn to stand alone

(Miss Bell)
this one is different

(miss Sherman)
put your faith in books

(Miss Bell)
this one can dance

(Miss Sherman)
put your faith in books

(Miss Bell)
artists are special

(Miss Sherman)
artists are people

(Both)
this one must have the chance
this one must have the chance.

Work, work, work
Hard work,
Work, hard work, work, hard work
Work, hard work
Work, work, work, work
Hard work, hard work

I'm alive
And I will survive
Show the world that I can take it
When I hot the heights
Put my name in lights

Yes I'm gonna put my name in lights, yeah!

Show the world that I can make it
By doin' doin' doin' doin'
By doin' Hard Work!

By doin' Hard Work!
By doin' Hard Work!
By doin' Hard Work!

Hard Work!

I want to make magic
I want to strike lightning in the sky
I want to do things you can't believe anyone would try
I want to make magic

I want to make magic
Make every moment a surprise
I'll capture your senses in a spell
Right before your eyes
I want to make magic

I want to make you think it's really real
I want to make you love the nobles roman
Weep for Willy Loman
Dream the dreams of Blanche du Bois

I want to make you laugh and roar and squeal

I want to guillotine the villain's neck off
Take a shot at Chekhov
Make it a rollercoaster ride up to a star!

I want to make magic
I want to take chances that are bold
I want to tell stories no one knows
That no one's ever told.

Now the audience is still
And the house lights are gone
Curtain going up
And I am on!

I want to do it all from A to Z
I want to do "The Lion In Winter"
Brecht and Harold Pinter
Sophocles, Eugene O'Neill

I want a chance to see what I can be
Another Jason Robards or De Niro
Play a tragic hero
Go for it all and really show the way I feel/

I want to make magic!

I want to make magic

Magic!

I want to make magic

Magic!

A thousand chances we can take
But it's all worth it when we make ...

Magic!
Magic!
Magic!
Magic!
Magic!
Magic!

Magic!

Magic!

Oh Lord give me a sign
Give me a call on your heavenly line
Tell me, oh Lord, what it is that you want of me
Keep me from eatin' whatever's in front of me

Oh Lord give me a sign
Oh Lord give her a sign
Give her a call on your heavenly line
Call me up, call me up on your heavenly line

Tell her oh Lord, what it is that you want of her
Tell me oh save me
Keep her from eatin' whatever's in front of her
Save me from eatin' whatever's in front of me

Oh Lord, give me the answer
Ooh, ah
Save me from being the world's fattest dancer
Ooh

Think of how to use it
Use it on the stage
Think of Katherine Hepburn
Think of Gerry Page

Think of all the feelings
Wasted on this creep
Think of how you could use them
Think of Meryl Streep

Why should I be crazy
Spilling out my guts
Make a big explosion
Go completely nuts

These are my emotions
Mine alone to keep
I know I could use them
Think of Meryl Streep

Inside me there's a world of color and light
Nothing has to be wrong
Nothing has to be right
Inside me are treasures that glow

An actress's job is to know what she's willing to show
And then hide all the rest so no-one's the wiser
Save up all the best, like Midas the miser
Keep every moment under control
Always in charge, playing a role

Smile and shrug your shoulders
Make believe it's fine
Come up with an answer
Or a witty line

Though your heart is breaking
Never start to weep
Someday you can use it
Someday you can use it
Someday you can use it
Think of Meryl Streep

Everyday, I'll wake up in the mornin'
Splash my face to keep myself from yawnin'
Get dressed and get my bones together
Open the window to check out the weather

Then like I seen a ghost, man
I'll be movin' my feet
Just like the postman in the cold or the heat
No time to talk and I go dancin' on the sidewalk

Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk

Lunchtime is music to my ears
I'm down on Wallstreet with all the financiers
South Street Seaport I am the action
The number one tourist attraction

Hip hop to the West Side
Where I do myself proud
The West Side is the best side for drawin' a crowd
The cabbies squawk when I go dancin' on the sidewalk

Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk

Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk

Uptown I do my boogaloo
Stoppin' traffic on Seventh Avenue
Nighttime the corner to be on
Times Square under the neon

For my finale
I'll be doin' my thing
In Shubert Alley
They're gonna crown me the king
Of all New York

Because I'm dancin', dancin', dancin' woo
Dancin' on the sidewalk

Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk
Dancin' on the sidewalk

In times of trouble
When all the world seems, oh, so dark
And I can't find a way to cope

When deep down inside me
I can no longer feel the spark
When I can see no ray of hope

When I am lost
What makes it all worthwhile
One simple thought to make me smile

These are my children
My saving grace
I see my calling
In every face

These are my children
And I thank God
For choosing me, for choosing me

I wasn't blessed
As other women in this life
To have my own, to be mother and wife

But I was blessed
Beyond where wildest dreams can reach
For I have the privilege
Yes, the privilege to teach

These are my children
My saving grace
I see my calling
In every face

These are my children
My family tree
And I thank God
And I thank God

Yes, I thank God
For choosing me
For choosing me
These are my children

Out in L.A. and broke on the ticket that this fellow sent me
One change of clothes in the suitcase my girlfriend Anna lent me
I stayed for awhile in his place, runnin' with this crowd of his
Partyin' day after day, meetin' everybody in the biz

Oh, they know how to do it in L.A.
They know how to make it seem brand new
Though it's true what they say, that it's only a dream
And a dream is a wish you wish for you
In L.A the dream may come true

After the booze and the coke
The visions of the blue Pacific
After the two hundredth time
I told him he was just terrific

I woke up one late afternoon
And couldn't tell quite where I was
Left-over taste in my mouth
And the morning after buzz

I packed my bag and split and found myself a dancin' job
Worked the bar for tips and stripped for every lonely slob
Counted every single minute as the hours went by
Then fell in bed and cried til there were no more tears to cry

You try to stop the thought from comin'
That it never ends
You think about how far you are
From home and friends

You get thru one day at a time
You find a way of stayin' numb
Don't look in the mirror
To see what you've become

But they know how to do it in L.A.
They know hot to make it seem so new
Though it's true what they say
That's it's only a dream
And a dream is a wish you wish for you
In L.A. the dream may come true

Yes, they know how to do it in L.A.
They know how to make it seem brand new
Though it's true what they say, that it's only a dream
And a dream is a wish you wish for you
In L.A, in L.A., in L.A. the dreams may all come...

Yes, they know how to do it in L.A.
They know that somewhere the sky is blue
So smile when they say 'It's only a dream'
And you'll get what is comin' to you
In L.A, in L.A., in L.A. the dreams all come true

You were the honest friend
I was the great pretender
I hid my feeling to the end

Now I want to say
What it means to me
How I could ever be the same
Without you

The way I know I really feel about you
The way I know I'll always feel about you
Why can't we
Why can't we
Why can't we try to play a love scene

We don't need the violins to play a love scene
Where we see how love begins
Find a way to start and learn to play the part
A perfect scene from a play unknown

Let's play a love scene
Let's play a love scene
We don't need the violins to play a love scene
Where we see how love begins
Find a way to start and learn to play the part
A perfect scene from a play unknown

Let's play a
Let's play a
Let's play a love scene of our own

We Have Arrived, At A Moment In Our Lives
When The Future Passes Into Our Hands
We Can Find Out Are We Really Strong Enough
To Fulfill What The Future Demands

We Can Stand On The Edge And Look Out Into Space
And Be Awed By The Wonders We See

We Can All Make A Pledge That The Whole Human Race
Will Become What We Want It To Be

Bring On Tomorrow, Let It Shine
Like The Sun Coming Up On A Beautiful Day
It's Yours And Mine, We Can Make A Difference
It's Not Too Late
Bring On Tomorrow, We Can't Wait

Long Long Ago, In A World We Never Made
We Were Children Who Were Making Believe
Closing Our Eyes, We Were Travelers In Air
To A Land We Would Not Want To Leave

But This Fairy Tale Land
Fades Away As We Grow
And We All Have To Say Our Goodbyes

And We Now Understand
That This World That We Know
Can Be Ours, If We Open Our Eyes

Bring On Tomorrow, Let It Shine
Like The Sun Coming Up On A Beautiful Day
It's Yours And Mine, We Can Make A Difference
It's Not Too Late
Bring On Tomorrow, We Can't Wait

Bring On Tomorrow, We Can't Wait
Bring On Tomorrow, It's Not Too Late
Bring On Tomorrow, We Can't Wait
Bring On Tomorrow, We Can't Wait

Bring On Tomorrow, Let It Shine
Like The Sun Coming Up On A Beautiful Day
It's Yours And Mine, We Can Make A Difference
It's Not Too Late
Bring On Tomorrow, We Can't Wait

Bring On Tomorrow, We Can't Wait!

I'm alive and I will survive
Show the world that I can take it
When I hit the heights
Put my name in lights
Show the world that I can make it

By doin', doin', doin', doin'.........
By doin' hard work

Baby look at me
And tell me what you see
You ain't seen the best of me yet
Give me time I'll make you forget the rest

I got more in me
And you can set it free
I can catch the moon in my hands
Don't you know who I am

Remember my name
Fame

I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
High

I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry
Fame

I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
Fame

I'm gonna live forever
Baby remember my name

Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember

Baby hold me tight
Cause you can make it right
You can shoot me straight to the top
Give me love and take all I've got to give

Baby I'll be tough
Too much is not enough
I can ride your heart til it breaks
Ooh I got what it takes

Fame
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
High

I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry
Fame

I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
Fame

I'm gonna live forever
Baby remember my name
Fame