Forbidden Broadway: Behind the Mylar Curtain (30 page)

[They run upstage, waving their arms.]

WOMAN

THE MEN

[As they sidestep of doing Fosse hands.]

WOMAN

How's about it, Bobby? Yeah!

"Barbra: The Broadway Album"

BARBRA

[Wild reverb. I

As sure as the Nederlanders print little green tickets,
the Broadway I knew and loved will come back. And
you'll see the glitter of lights and the flashing of

neon. You'll hear the magic of soaring music and the
shimmer of trumpets.

[He sings the first few notes of the Gypsy overture.]

"76 Hit Shows"
(with "Trouble" Reprise)

ROBERT PRESTON

And you'll feel something akin to the electric thrill I
was once a part of, when Judy Holliday, Alfred Drake,
Mary Martin, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and
Lowe, Cole Porter, and the great Ethel Merman all had
shows on Broadway in the same historic decade!

[Offstage whistle. MAN and WOMAN enter, similarly
dressed. WOMAN puts hat on pianist.[

ALL

MAN

ALL