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2022 Broadway
Kimberly Akimbo the Musical - The Inevitable Turn Lyrics
Music by Jeanine Tesori and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire.
PATTI:
Isn’t this nice?
Everybody’s being so nice
Nothing is wrong
Trouble’s half passed
Everybody civil and getting along
Will it last?
KIM: (spoken)
You should open a restaurant, dad!
BUDDY: (spoken)
Maybe I will
DEBRA:
No matter how well things are going
It always takes a turn
BUDDY:
No matter how happy we seem
There’s always a turn
PATTI & DEBRA:
Just below the pleasant chatter
We’re aware
Of a steady burn that’ll flair
We push it down
PATTI, BUDDY & DEBRA:
But then we take the turn
We always take the turn
The inevitable turn
KIM: (spoken)
Roll?
PATTI, BUDDY & DEBRA]
We fight against the turn
We struggle with thе turn
The inevitable turn
BUDDY: (spoken)
Hеy, Debra
If you’re looking for work
They’re hiring at Costco
I hear the pay is not bad
DEBRA: (spoken)
Huh, I should look into that
Thanks for thinking of me, Buddy
BUDDY: (spoken)
Any time
PATTI:
Isn’t this sweet?
Everybody’s being so sweet
Look at us swerve
All on our guard
Everybody’s hoping not to take the curve
We’re trying so hard
BUDDY: (spoken)
And if you do get a job,
You can finally pay me back
DEBRA:
No matter how lovely the evening
It always takes a turn
No matter how careful we are
There’s always a turn
PATTI, BUDDY & DEBRA:
And despite the friendly banter
We’re annoyed
By a topic we should learn to avoid
We never do
PATTI, BUDDY, DEBRA:
Instead we take the turn
Of course we take the turn
The inevitable turn
DEBRA: (spoken)
So when you say pay you back…
PATTI: (spoken)
Debra!
BUDDY: (spoken)
I meant for the stereo you stole
DEBRA: (spoken)
Stole? You agreed to give me that stereo
PATTI: (spoken)
You guys!
BUDDY:
It’s all going fine
Then it changes so fast
A look, a joke, a slight from the past
Which will burn
Pass the salt, sling the mud
Carve the meat, draw the blood
DEBRA: (spoken)
We had a deal, Buddy
BUDDY:
Take the turn
DEBRA: (spoken)
You promised to give me that stereo
If I went next door and slapped Swicky around
BUDDY: (spoken)
Debra!
The Showchoir begins to sing
ooh’s underneath the dialogue
PATTI: (spoken)
Wait, what?
DEBRA: (spoken)
Which I went to do!
It’s not my fault it didn’t happen!
KIM: (spoken)
You hired Debra to beat up Mr. Swicky?
BUDDY: (spoken)
Well I couldn’t do it myself
He’s my neighbor!
KIM: (spoken)
This is exactly what I don’t wanna know!
BUDDY: (spoken)
He did some awful things, Kim
DEBRA: (spoken)
It wasn’t just him
BUDDY: (spoken)
Ms. Denton said she saw a masked
intruder crawl in his window
Did you wear a mask?
DEBRA: (spoken)
Yes, a pig mask
BUDDY: (spoken)
A pig mask?
DEBRA: (spoken)
I didn’t wanna be identified
and you told me to scare him
BUDDY: (spoken)
I didn’t tell you to kill him!
DEBRA: (spoken)
I didn’t know he had a weak heart!
He just took one look at me and dropped dead!
BUDDY: (spoken)
You were wearing a pig mask!
If a pig lady crawled in my window
I’d drop dead too!
KIM: (spoken)
That’s why we left Lodi,
Because you stared Swicky to death?
The showchoir stops singing
PATTI: (spoken)
I should’ve never told you!
None of this would’ve even happened, Buddy
If you had never known
KIM: (spoken)
Known what?
PATTI: (spoken)
I really wanted another baby
BUDDY: (spoken)
Patti…
PATTI: (spoken)
But I was scared
BUDDY: (spoken)
She doesn’t wanna know
KIM: (spoken)
Scared it would be like me?
DEBRA: (spoken)
So she made sure it wouldn’t be
KIM: (spoken)
You had sex with Mr. Swicky
So dad hired Aunt Debra to beat him up
But Aunt Debra killed him instead
What is wrong with you people?!
The adults all break out into an argument
as Kim slowly leaves the table
SHOWCHOIR:
No matter how well things are going
It always takes
No matter how happy we seem
There’s always
With just a blow of the wind
With a steady burn, with a steady burn
Oh!
We take the turn
Oh, we take the turn
BUDDY: (spoken)
Do you ever stop?!
DEBRA: (spoken)
Kim?
PATTI: (spoken)
Oh my God
BUDDY: (spoken)
What’s happening?
PATTI: (spoken)
Buddy, help her!
BUDDY: (spoken)
Kimmy?!
Review: Kimberly Akimbo the Musical Lyrics
Kimberly Akimbo the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS
Skater Planet
Hello, Darling
Make a Wish
Skater Planet (reprise 1)
Anagram
Better
Hello, Darling (reprise)
Father Time
Happy For Her
This Time
How to Wash a Check
Good Kid
Hello, Baby
Our Disease
The Inevitable Turn
Now
How to Wash a Check (reprise)
Before I Go
Great Adventure
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