Cinderella - When You're Driving Through The Moonlight Lyrics

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Musical
Cinderella the Musical - When You're Driving Through The Moonlight Lyrics

ELLA
When you’re driving
Through the moonlight
On the highway
When you’re driving
Through the moonlight
To the dance

You are breathless
With a wild anticipation
Of adventure and excitement
And romance

Then at last you
See the towers
Of the palace
Silhouetted
On the sky
Above the park
And below them
Is a row of lighted windows
Like a lovely diamond
Necklace in the dark!

CHARLOTTE
It looks that way –

GABRIELLE
The way you say

MADAME
She talks as if she knows

ELLA
I do not know
These things are so
I only just suppose ...

I suppose
That when you come
Into the ballroom
And the room itself is
Floating in the air

If you’re suddenly
Confronted by
His Highness
You are frozen
Like a statue
On the stair

You’re afraid
He’ll hear the way
Your heart
Is beating

And you know you mustn’t
Make the first advance
You are seriously
Thinking of retreating –
Then you seem to hear him
Asking you to dance

You make a bow
A timid bow
And shyly answer “yes”

MADAME
How would you know
That this is so?

ELLA
I do no more than guess

CHARLOTTE & GABRIELLE
You can guess till you’re blue in your face
But you can’t even picture such a man

CHARLOTTE
He is more than a prince

GABRIELLE
He’s an ace!

ELLA
But sisters, I really think I can –

MADAME
Can what?

ELLA
I think that I can picture such a man

CHARLOTTE & GABRIELLE
He is tall

ELLA
And straight as a lance

CHARLOTTE & GABRIELLE
And his hair –

ELLA
Is dark and wavy

CHARLOTTE & GABRIELLE
His eyes –

ELLA
Can melt you with a glance

CHARLOTTE & GABRIELLE
He can turn a girl to gravy!

ELLA
And I can imagine it.

GABRIELLE
I imagine it too!

CHARLOTTE
I can imagine it, and I have no imagination.

MADAME
I am throwing caution to the wind! I am imagining it as well!

ELLA
Imagine what that girl would be feeling when dancing with the Prince!

Cinderella the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Prologue
Me, Who Am I?
In My Own Little Corner
The Prince Is Giving a Ball / Now Is the Time
In My Own Little Corner (Reprise)
Impossible
Transformations
It's Possible
Ten Minutes Ago
Ten Minutes Ago (Reprise)
Stepsister's Lament
The Pursuit
He Was Tall
When You're Driving Through The Moonlight
A Lovely Night
A Lovely Night (Reprise)
Loneliness Of Evening
Announcing The Banquet
There's Music in You
Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?
The Shoe Fits
The Proposal
The Wedding: There's Music In You