OK! Here We Go! Lyrics > Gutenberg! The Musical!

[DOUG, spoken]
OK, here we go!

[BUD, spoken]
Whoo! This is exciting!

[DOUG, spoken]
Welcome to Gutenberg!

[BUD, spoken]
Gutenberg... The Musical!

[DOUG, spoken]
I’m Mr. Doug Simon

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I’m Mr.?Bud?Davenport

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We’ve written an?exciting new show, and tonight, we?want to present it for the very first time!

[BUD, spoken]
But hopefully not for the last time!

[DOUG, spoken]
No;
With any luck, we’re hoping to take our show... to Broadway!

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And as many of you already know, there are, in the audience tonight, some very big Broadway producers!
So... tell them to produce our show!

[DOUG, spoken]
Now-

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Yes

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-writing a musical is not easy

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Hats off to you Elton John!

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But we did it!
I wrote what we call the book of the musical

[BUD, spoken]
And I wrote the music
And the lyrics... well...

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We wrote those together!
[DOUG, spoken]
So you’re probably sitting there and thinking to yourself
“Okay, so you wrote a musical...
But what is it about?”

[BUD, spoken]
I dunno Doug
Why don’t you tell us?

[DOUG, spoken]
Alright, I will! It’s about Johan Gutenberg!

[BUD, spoken]
Who’s he?

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Well, he’s the guy who invented the printing press

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And then printed up a bunch of copies of The Bible

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Now, what you’re gonna see tonight is what we call a “reading” of a musical
That means there’s no set, no costumes, only a few props, and no cast!

[BUD, spoken]
It’s just me and Doug
[DOUG, spoken]
Right!
Now, before we get started, we do want to take a second
To talk about something pretty serious
And that’s the Holocaust
Every important musical has to tackle at least one very serious issue

[BUD, spoken]
Like racism

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Or Vietnam

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Or a man with half a face

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Yes
Our show is set in Germany
So our serious issue is the Holocaust

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Germans hate Jews!

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Well... not all of them...
Most of them!

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Maybe not anymore...
But they used to!

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That hatred... is in this show

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It has to be!

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Because it makes our show... important
And now...

[BOTH, spoken]
Gutenberg The Musical!
Last Update: October, 02nd 2023