conceived, choreographed and directed by MICHAEL BENNET



book by JAMES KIRKWOOD and NICHOLAS DANTE



music by MARVIN HAMLISCH



lyrics by EDWARD KLEBAN







FOLLOWS "Sing!"







VAL



Hello Twelve,







RICHIE



Hello Thirteen,







MAGGIE



Hello Love.







AL



Changes, Oh!







BEBE



Down below.







DIANA



Up above.







VAL



Time to doubt.







MIKE



To break out.







RICHIE



It's a mess.







MAGGIE (speaks)



It's a mess.







PAUL, JUDY



Time to grow







AL, MAGGIE



Time to go







RICHIE, BOBBY, CONNIE



Adolesce







ALL



Adolesce



Too young to take over,



Too old to ignore.







AL



Gee, I'm almost ready,







ALL



But what for



There's a lot I am not certain of.



Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love







MARK (Wet Dream/Gonorrhea Bit - Abridged)



So, all I could do was drink the water and I drank like twenty glasses a day.



(speaks)



For three weeks



I almost drown



Finally I went to confession



And I told the priest I had gonorrhea!



He was in shock too.



(sings)



"Who have you been with, my son "



(Nobody, Nobody.)



"Then how can you have gonorrhea "



(speaks)



I told him about the books diagnosis for milky discharge and he set me straight!



It was the only time the church ever helped me out.Well, I was







CONNIE (Four-foot Ten Bit)



(sings)



Four-foot ten, four-foot ten.That's the story of my life.



I remember when ev'rybody was my size.



(speaks)



Boy, was that great!But then everybody started moving up, andthere I was stuck at



(sings)



Four-foot ten! Four-foot ten.(But I kept hoping and praying.)



I used to hang from a parallel bar by the hour,



Hoping I'd stretch just an inch more.



(speaks)



'Cause I was into dancing and I was good and I wanted so much to grow up to be a prima ballerina.Then I went out for cheer-leader!And they told me: "No dice.You'd get lost on the football field.The pompoms are bigger than you."I spent my whole childhood waiting to grow







VAL



Tits!When am I gonna grow tits







PAUL



Secret, my whole life was a secret.







MIKE



One little fartand they called me "STINKY" for three year.Ohhhh!







ALL



Goodbye Twelve, goodbye Thirteen.Hello Love.







BEBE



Robert Goulet, Robert Goulet, my God, Robert Goulet!







ALL



Oh!Down below, up above







DON



Playing doctor with Evelyn.







ALL



La la la







RICHIE



I'll show you mine







ALL



La la







RICHIE



You show me yours.







ALL



La la







KRISTINE



Seeing Daddy naked!







ALL



Time to grow.Time to goLa, la, la







SHEILA



Mom and Dad were doing it.







BOBBY



I'm gonna be a movie star.







CONNIE (speaks)



But you see, the only thing about me that grew was my desire.



(sings)



I was never gonna be Maria Tallchief, I was just(dialogue dodging the age issue, but mentions the year of the Chicken)







ZACK (speaks)



Ah-hah, the year of the Chickenthat'll make you, what Thirty-two







CONNIE (speaks)



Puck-puck-puck-puck girl!So I got caught!But I don't look it, and I shouldn't knock it, 'cause I've always been able to work.



(sings)



From the time I was five in "King and I," "King and I."



Up 'til now I've never stopped, 'cause whatever I am, I am







(SEQUE to Montage - Part 2 "Nothing