ACT ONE cont…
10. BRING ON THE MEN
LUCY
There was a time – I don’t know when –
I didn’t have much time for men.
But this is now – and that was then –
I’m learning!
A girl alone, all on her own
must try to have a heart of stone.
So I try not to make it known,
my yearning!
I try to show I have no need,
I really do – I don’t succeed!
So let’s bring on the men
and let the fun begin!
A little touch of sin,
why wait another minute?
Step this way!
It’s time for us to play!
They say we may not pass this way again –
so let’s waste no more time –
bring on the men!
I always knew, I always said
that silk an’ lace, in black an’ red
will drive a man right off his head –
it’s easy!
So many men, so little time –
I want ’em all – is that a crime?
I don’t know why they say that I’m
too easy!
They make me laugh – they make me cry,
they make me sick – so God knows why
LUCY & THE GIRLS
We say bring on the men
and let the fun begin!
A little touch of sin
why wait another minute?
Step this way!
It’s time for us to play!
They say we may not pass this way again,
so let’s waste no more time –
bring on the men!
LUCY
They break your heart,
they steal your soul,
take you apart
and yet they somehow make you whole.
So what’s their game?
I ‘spose a rose by any other name,
the perfume and the prick’s the same.
I like to have a man for breakfast each day.
I’m very social and I like it that way.
By late mid-morning, I need something to munch …
So ask over two men for lunch!
And men are mad about my afternoon teas,
they’re quite informal, I just do it to please.
Those triple sandwiches are my favourite ones.
I’m also very partial to buns!
My healthy appetite gets strongest at night
My at-home dinners are my men-friends’ delight!
When I invite the fellers over to dine,
they all come early an’ we’re in bed by nine!
ALL
So let’s bring on the men
and let the fun begin!
A little touch of sin
why wait another minute?
Step this way!
It’s time for us to play!
They say we may not pass this way again
so let’s waste no more time
LUCY
Bring on the men!
GIRLS
Big men, small men,
short men, tall men –
I guess that means
almost all men!
I’m a player
Long as they are men!
11. LUCY MEETS JEKYLL
LUCY
S’ not every day me friends and I
‘as gents like you just droppin’ by.
Before you go,
you’ll know just why you came here!
JEKYLL
Of that, my dear, I’ve little doubt.
One only has to look about.
It’s not too hard to figure out
the game here!
And yet I sense: there’s more to you
LUCY
You flatter, sir, you really do!
With half a chance …
JEKYLL
… what would you do?
LUCY
Don’t ask me!
Here’s to the night! Here’s to romance!
To those unafraid of taking a chance!
JEKYLL
I think I’ve taken enough for one day!
And I have learned to my cost
It’s not the fun that it might be
once you have lost!
LUCY
Oh, what a shame! If you only knew
the games we could play, the things we could do!
Yet I can see you’re not up to the chase!
But, if you’re ever in need:
I am the girl, and this is the place.
Come to me!
JEKYLL
It’s getting late – I have to go.
If any time – you never know –
you need a friend …
LUCY
Doctor Henry Jekyll, 46, Harley Street …
If any time … you never know …
you need a friend …
12. HOW CAN I CONTINUE ON?
JEKYLL
How can I continue on
When they can block each step I take?
UTTERSON
Don’t destroy the work you’ve done!
Henry, there’s too much at stake!
JEKYLL
But what if they are right?
Have I let my dreams misguide me?
I’m so weary of this fight
There’s so little left inside me.
UTTERSON
And what if you are right?
And you didn’t see it through?
You’ve got to see it through!
When this all began,
You knew there’d be a price to pay
Too late now to turn away
You have come too far!
I know you’ll find the way…
Goodnight, Henry.
JEKYLL
When this all began,
I knew there’d be a price…
13. THIS IS THE MOMENT
JEKYLL
This is the moment,
this is the day
When I send all my doubts and demons
on their way …
Every endeavor I have made ever
I coming into play,
is here and now today …
This is the moment,
this is the time
when the momentum and the moment
are in rhyme!
Give me this moment,
this precious chance.
I’ll gather up my past
and make some sense at last!
This is the moment
when all I’ve done
all of the dreaming, scheming and screaming
become one!
This is the day,
see it sparkle and shine!
When all I’ve lived for
becomes mine!
For all those years,
I’ve faced the world alone.
And now the time has come
to prove to them I’ve made it on my own!
This is the moment,
my final test
destiny beckoned,
I never reckoned second best.
I won’t look down,
I must not fall!
This is the moment,
the sweetest moment of them all!
This is the moment,
damn all the odds!
This day or never,
I’ll sit forever with the Gods!
When I look back,
I will always recall
moment for moment,
this was the moment,
the greatest moment of them all!
14. TRANSFORMATION
JEKYLL
September 13th. 11:56 pm. I have started this alone… and I must finish it alone.
There is no longer a choice… I know that I must use myself as the subject of the experiment.
No, there is no choice!
I must put aside the fears I feel inside
There’s no place to hide.
So it comes to this
One last final chance that only I can take
Now everything I’ve fought for is at stake!
Like a warning light, glimmering in red,
like crimson bloodshed, shimmering in red,
beautiful and strange,
see the colours change before my eyes!
See how they dance and they sparkle
like diamonds at night …
leading out of the darkness and into the light!
11:58 pm. Consumed 10 centiliters of Formula HJ 7. Salty, bitter taste. Stings the tongue.
Warm in the gullet. Heat spreading strongly through my veins. A slight feeling of euphoria.
Light-headedness. No noticeable behavioral differences.
I must be wise,
I must try to analyze each change in me,
everything I see.
How will it be?
Will I see the world through different eyes?
Now the die is cast – nothing left to do,
time alone can prove my theories true.
Show the world …
My God! – What’s this?
Something is happening – I can’t explain –
something inside me, a breathtaking pain,
devours and consumes me
and drives me insane!
Suddenly – uncontrolled –
Something is taking hold
Suddenly – agony –
filling me – killing me!
Suddenly – out of breath –
what is this – is this death?
Suddenly – look at me!
Can it be?
Who is this creature that I see?!
HYDE
Free!
15. LUCY MEETS HYDE
LUCY
I know you, don’t I?
HYDE
After tonight, my little love,
You will never forget me.
I am destined to be your guardian Angel
Your guide to salvation
In this world of madness.
LUCY
So what’s yer name then, sweet’eart ?
HYDE
Hyde… Edward Hyde.
A toast to the night!
A toast to romance!
To those unafraid
Of taking a chance!
LUCY
I must admit that I like yer approach!
It’s one that I’ve not seen before!
HYDE
Why should you settle for less, dear,
When there’s more!
I am the man
Fate has decreed
Destined to be
All that you need!
I can give you everything you desire
You can give me all I need!
LUCY
Sounds like a nice bit of business
Yes, indeed!
HYDE
I am the man
Mark my words well
With whom you’ll share
Heaven or hell!
LUCY
‘eaven I fancy, ‘as no place for me!
And I can find hell on my own!
HYDE
Like it or not,
You will never be alone!
After tonight, you will never be alone!
16. ALIVE
HYDE
What is this feeling
Of power and drive
I’ve never known?
I feel alive!
Where does this feeling
Of power derive,
Making me know
Why I’m alive?
Like the night, it’s a secret
Sinister, dark, and unknown.
I do not know what I seek
Yet I’ll seek it alone!
I have a thirst
That I cannot deprive.
Never have I felt so alive!
There is no battle
I couldn’t survive-
Feeling like this-
Feeling alive!
Like the moon, an enigma,
Lost and alone in the night
Damned by some heavenly stigma,
But blazing with light!
It’s the feeling of being alive!
Filled with evil, but truly alive!
It’s the truth that cannot be denied!
It’s the feeling of being Edward Hyde!
Wait!
What’s this?
Sweet miss!
I thought I had lost you!
It’s fate!
What bliss!
Sweet miss!
Your folly will cost you dear
My dear
You’ll see
You’ll never escape me!
I fear
And you will pay dear
My dear…
Animals trapped behind bars in the zoo
Need to run rampant and free!
Predators live on the prey they pursue
This time, the predator’s me!
Lust – like a raging desire,
Fills my whole soul with its curse!
Burning with primitive fire,
Berserk and perverse!
Tonight I’ll plunder heaven blind,
Steal from all the gods!
Tonight I’ll take from all mankind,
Conquer all the odds!
And I feel I’ll live on forever,
With Satan himself by my side!
And I’ll show the world
That tonight, and forever,
The name to remember’s
The name Edward Hyde!
What a feeling to be so alive!
I have never seen me so alive!
Such a feeling of evil inside-
That’s the feeling of being
Edward Hyde!!
17. STREAK OF MADNESS
JEKYLL
September 14th. 5:00 am. This is a strange, new, sweet sensation.
I am younger. lighter, happier in body and soul – twice as alive and tenfold more wicked – which intoxicates and delights me like wine – adding fearful new hardships to my desperate battle for success.
September 20th. 10:50 am. The experiments are now in their second week. The transformations are beyond imagining. Unspeakable nightmares besiege my senses. The most racking pains, and a horror of the spirit that exceeds all dreams of death.
September 25th. 8:00 pm. I have radically altered the balance of the formula, to contain and overcome the powerful and darker forces at work inside me. I am aware of my peril, and the need to control Hyde’s evil influence, which disappears within me like a stain of breath upon a mirror. He has found the perfect hiding place…
What streak of madness lies inside of me?
What is the truth my fears conceal?
What evil force makes Edward Hyde of me?
What darker side of me does this reveal?
Am I the man that I appear to be?
Or am I someone I don’t know?
Is there some monster drawing near to me?
Becoming clear to see?
Will what I fear to be be so?
What is this strange obsession
That’s tearing me apart?
Some strange deranged expression
Of what’s in my heart?
This is a deadly game I have to win!
This is a fight I dare not lose!
I have an adversary steeped in sin
Who wages war within
In ways I can’t begin to use…
18. HIS WORK AND NOTHING MORE
UTTERSON
This is not the man I knew!
There’s something deeply troubling you!
How long do you plan
To hide away here?
This increasing isolation
Only adds to your frustration
And it could endanger your career!
JEKYLL
John, I don’t need you to turn on me as well!
More than ever now I need a friend!
Can’t you see and don’t you know I’ve been through hell?
Don’t condemn what you don’t comprehend!
UTTERSON
Henry, I’m not questioning your motives here!
But is what you’re seeking worth the price?
You’ve turned your back on everything you once held dear
You’re choosing to ignore your friend’s advice!
You have your work
And nothing more!
You are possessed
What is your demon?
You’ve never been
This way before
You’ve lost the fire
You built your dream on!
There’s something strange
There’s something wrong
I see a change
It’s like when love dies.
I who have known
You for so long
I see the pain in your eyes
There was a time
You lived your life
And no one lived
The way that you did!
You had a plan
You found a wife
You saw your world
As very few did!
You had it all!
The overall!
You seemed to know
Just what to live for!
But now it seems
You don’t at all!
You have your work
Nothing more!
| UTTERSON | JEKYLL | |
| You have your work
And nothing more! You are possessed What is your demon? |
Have
I Be- come |
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| You’ve never been
This way before You’ve lost the fire You built your dream on |
My
Work and Nothing More? |
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| There’s something strange
There’s something wrong I see a change It’s like when love dies. |
I
Know That’s Not |
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| I who have known you
For so long I see the pain In your eyes. |
What
I’m Living For! |
LISA
Father, you know Henry won’t just walk away
The only way he knows is straight ahead!
SIR DANVERS
Lisa, you’ve not heard a single word I’ve said
My fear is he’s in over his head!
He could lose control and that I dread!
There has been talk
They say he’s gone too far!
He’s locked himself away in his own world
Pursuing this insanity…
LISA
It is his work!
SIR DANVERS
It’s more than work!
He is obsessed!
The man is driven!
LISA
Just give him time!
I ask no more!
His work’s a crime to be forgiven!
SIR DANVERS
There’s something strange
Unless I’m blind
I see a change
Of a bizarre kind!
LISA
There’s not at all!
Don’t be unkind!
The problem’s all in your mind!
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SIR DANVERS He has his work And nothing more! He is obsessed The man is driven! |
UTTERSON Have you Be- Come
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JEKYLL Lisa…
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LISA Just give him time I ask no more! His work’s a crime To be forgiven! |
UTTERSON Your Work and Nothing More? |
JEKYLL Lisa…
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SIR DANVERS There’s something strange Unless I’m blind I see a change Of a bizarre kind! |
UTTERSON I Know That’s Not |
JEKYLL Lisa…
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LISA There’s not at all! Don’t be unkind The problem’s all In your mind! |
UTTERSON What You’re Living For |
JEKYLL Lisa…
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LISA Still I pray Every day Henry may Find his way I pray he May find His way |
SIR DANVERS Dear, I pray Every day Henry may Find his way I pray he May find His way |
UTTERSON I Pray You May Find Your Way |
JEKYLL I Pray I May Find My Way |
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| I will pray
Every day Henry may Find his way I pray He may find |
I will pray
Every day You two may Find your way I pray You may find |
I
Pray You May Find |
I
Pray I May Find |
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| His way. | Your way. | Your way. | My way. |
19. SYMPATHY, TENDERNESS
LUCY
Sympathy, tenderness,
warm as the summer
offer me their embrace.
Friendliness, gentleness,
strangers to my life –
they are there in his face.
Goodness and sweetness
and kindness
abound in this place.
I am in love with
the things that I see in his face.
It’s a memory I know, time
will never erase!
20. SOMEONE LIKE YOU
LUCY
I peer through windows, watch life go by …
Dream of tomorrow and wonder why …
The past is holding me, keeping life at bay.
I wander, lost in yesterday,
wanting to fly,
but scared to try …
But if someone like you
found someone like me,
then suddenly, nothing would ever be the same.
My heart would take wing,
and I’d feel so alive,
if someone like you found me.
So many secrets I’d long to share!
All I have needed is someone there
to help me see a world
I’ve never seen before.
A love to open any door
to set me free,
so I can soar!
If someone like you
found someone like me,
then suddenly, nothing would ever be the same.
There’d be a new way to live,
a new life to love,
if someone like you found me …
Oh, if someone like you
found someone like me,
then suddenly, nothing would ever be the same.
My heart would take wing
and I’d feel so alive!
If someone like you loved me …
loved me …
… loved me!