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2024 Broadway
Lempicka the Musical - Paris Lyrics
(Performers - Eden Espinosa & Andrew Samonsky)
ENSEMBLE:
Paris, city of light
City of refugees
Arriving here overnight
The aristocracy
Gone, the past, the plans
Gone, the servants, the lands
Gone with the setting sun
Daybreak over Paris
And it's time to move on
TAMARA:
It’s the ugliest, beautiful city
I've ever seen
TADEUSZ:
What did you do to get me out?
TAMARA: (spoken)
Nothing, Tadeusz,
I gave them a few jewels
TADEUSZ:
What did you do to get me out?
TAMARA: (spoken)
And that's the last of it.
I sold my last necklace for the rent
TADEUSZ:
When my father with his influence
Could do nothing
TAMARA: (spoken)
Can you look for a job today?
There’s a polish bank on the Rue Vaneau.
Your name will mean something there
TADEUSZ: (spoken)
You want me counting people's
stinking bank notes?
ENSEMBLE:
One small room for a family of three
Hot water, a forgotten luxury
Like eating when you're hungry
TAMARA: (spoken)
Perhaps I could get a job!
TADEUSZ: (spoken)
Are you trying to insult me?
TAMARA: (spoken)
Things are different here
TADEUSZ: (spoken)
What if someone sees you?
How would that look?
ENSEMBLE:
Ah
Daybreak over Paris
MAN: (spoken)
What are your skills?
TAMARA: (spoken)
I- I'm a very charming hostess
ENSEMBLE:
Ugliest city...
MAN: (spoken)
We need cleaners. Overnight shift
ENSEMBLE:
Ugliest, beautiful city
I've ever seen
Ah
TAMARA:
Look at these women showing their bodies
As though there was no need for shame
It's a warmer climate here
I suppose, no need for so many clothes!
Look at the pastries shining like jewels
Look at these colors,
A thousand different blues
Look at the women
Rushing by in their high heeled shoes
ENSEMBLE:
Paris, city of light
TADEUSZ:
What did you do to get me out?
TAMARA: (spoken)
Tadeusz, look around you
ENSEMBLE:
Arriving here overnight
TADEUSZ:
What did you do to get me out?
TAMARA: (spoken)
Your daughter is hungry!
ENSEMBLE:
Gone, the centuries
Gone, the life of ease
TADEUSZ:
What did you do?
TAMARA: (spoken)
We need you here with us
TADEUSZ:
What did you do to get me out?
ENSEMBLE:
Daybreak over Paris…
TAMARA: (spoken)
I swear to God, Tadeusz,
If you don't stop asking me I will tell you!
I am hungry, I am awake, can't break down.
Can’t break. Start again in this dirty city.
How can I make it mine?
Breeze off the dirty river. The smell of...
Oils and turpentine
TAMARA:
Look at these hands
They once were pretty
The hands of a young girl
Waiting to marry
TAMARA: (spoken)
Look at them now
Cracked and bleeding
TAMARA:
A lady must never get her hands dirty
Not a lady now
Could I be one of these women
Walking fast in the city
Could losing everything
Make you free
MAN: (spoken)
Armistice declared. The Great War is over.
Treaty signed, the troops are coming home
TAMARA:
The century is different
So why shouldn’t I be
MAN: (spoken)
Russia remains in bloody civil war
TAMARA:
Everything is different
All new possibilities
MAN: (spoken)
But at last, there is peace in Europe
TAMARA:
My God, I've never been so hungry
It... feels... good
The city belongs to me
And I belong to her
ENSEMBLE:
Ugliest, beautiful
TAMARA:
Look at her! Shining, drenched in color
This is where I was meant to be
This beautiful city
ENSEMBLE:
Paris, city of light, city of refugees
Paris, city of light, city of bakeries
TAMARA:
Ugliest beautiful city
ENSEMBLE:
Paris, city of light, city of refugees
Gone, the past, the plans
Gone, the servants, the lands
TAMARA:
And I will capture all that it could be
Show the world what I see
TOGETHER:
Beautiful city
Review: Lempicka the Musical Lyrics
Lempicka the Musical Lyrics
SYNOPSIS
Unseen
Our Time
Starting Over
Paris
Plan and Design
Don’t Bet Your Heart
I Will Paint Her
Perfection
Wake Up
The Most Beautiful Bracelet
Woman Is
Pari Will Always Be Pari
The New Woman
Women
Stay
What She Sees
Here It Comes
Speed
Just This Way
In The Blasted California Sun
Finale
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