No more?

OK. Today will be all about musicals. There are lyrics, so keep scrolling if you want to see the whole thing.

First, the song "No More" that Jake Gyllenhal mentioned on The Late Show last night. (He said it was his favorite Sondheim song):

BAKER
No more questions,
Please.
No more tests.
Comes the day you say, "What for?"
Please- no more.

MYSTERIOUS MAN
They disappoint,
They disappear,
They die but they don't...

BAKER
What?

MYSTERIOUS MAN
They disappoint
In turn, I fear.
Forgive, though, they won't...BAKER
No more riddles.
No more jests.
No more curses you can't undo,
Left by fathers you never knew.
No more quests.

No more feelings.
Time to shut the door.
Just- no more.

MYSTERIOUS MAN
Running away- let's do it,
Free from the ties that bind.
No more depair
Or burdens to bear
Out there in the yonder.

Running away- go to it.
Where did you have in mind?
Have to take care:
Unless there's a "where,"
You'll only be wandering blind.
Just more questions.
Different kind.

Where are we to go?
Where are we ever to go?

Running away- we'll do it.
Why sit around, resugned?
Trouble is, son,
The farther you run,
The more you feel undefined
For what you've left undone
And, nore, what you've left behind.

We disappoint,
We leave a mess,
We die but we don't...

BAKER
We disappoint
In turn, I guess.
Forget, though, we won't...

BOTH
Like father, like son.

BAKER
No more giants
Waging war.
Can't we just pursue out lives
With out children and our wives?
'Till that happy day arrives,
How do you ignore
All the witches,
All the curses,
All the wolves, all the lies,
The false hopes, the goodbyes,
The reverses,
All the wondering what even worse is
Still in store?

All the children...
All the giants...

No more.

I confess I don't remember this from the performance Andy, our friend Sue Szot, and I saw back in the day on Broadway. I'd bought the tickets months before as a b'day present for Andy and it just happened that the original cast, Bernatette Peters, Joanne Carson, et al., had all returned for a filming for PBS and it was the last night of their being together so Ms. Peters was stage stealing like nobody;s business like, when she wasn't singing, hiking up her skirt little by little just to draw attention to herself. Priceless.

This is the opening number of that amazing musical, Six, this rendition put together by cast members from all over the world where it's touring in honor (?) of all the stay-at-home orders:

"Ex-Wives"
(from "Six: The Musical (Studio Cast Recording)" soundtrack)

[Catherine Of Aragon:]
Divorced

[Anne Boleyn:]
Beheaded

[Jane Seymour:]
Died

[Anne Of Cleves:]
Divorced

[Katherine Howard:]
Beheaded

[Catherine Parr:]
Survived

[Catherine Of Aragon:]
And tonight we are

[All:]
Live

[Catherine Of Aragon:]
Listen up, let me tell you a story

[Anne Boleyn:]
A story that you think
You've heard before

[Jane Seymour:]
We know you know our names
And our fame and our faces

[Anne Of Cleves:]
Know all about the glories
And the disgraces

[Katherine Howard:]
I'm done 'cause all this time
I've been just one word
In a stupid rhyme

[Catherine Parr:]
So I picked up a pen and a microphone

[All:]
History's about to get overthrown

[Catherine Of Aragon:]
Divorced

[Anne Boleyn:]
Beheaded

[Jane Seymour:]
Died

[Anne Of Cleves:]
Divorced

[Katherine Howard:]
Beheaded

[Catherine Parr:]
Survived

[All:]
But just for you tonight
We're divorced, beheaded
LIVE!
Welcome to the show
To the historemix
Switching up the flow
As we add the prefix
Everybody knows that
We used to be six wives
Raising up the roof
Till we hit the ceiling
Get ready for the truth
That we'll be revealing
Everybody knows
That we used to be six wives
...but now we're ex-wives

[Catherine Of Aragon:]
All you ever hear
And read about

[Anne Boleyn:]
Is our ex and the way it ended

[Jane Seymour:]
But a pair doesn't beat a royal flush

[Anne Of Cleves:]
You're gonna find out
How we got unfriended

[Katherine Howard:]
Tonight we gonna do ourselves justice
'Cause we're taking you to court

[Catherine Parr:]
Every Tudor Rose has its thorns
And you're gonna hear 'em live in consort

[Catherine Of Aragon:]
Divorced

[Anne Boleyn:]
Beheaded

[Jane Seymour:]
Died

[Anne Of Cleves:]
Divorced

[Katherine Howard:]
Beheaded

[Catherine Parr:]
Survived

[All:]
But just for you tonight
We're divorced, beheaded
Live!
Welcome to the show
To the historemix
Switching up the flow
As we add the prefix
Everybody knows that
We used to be six wives
Dancing to the beat
Till the break of day. Once
We're done, we'll start again
Like it's the Renaissance
Everybody knows
That we used to be six wives
...but now we're ex-wives

Divorced

[Catherine Of Aragon:]
My name is Catherine Of Aragon
Was married 24 years, I'm a paragon
Of royalty, my loyalty is to the Vatican
So if you try to dump me
You won't try that again

[All:]
Beheaded

[Anne Boleyn:]
I'm that Boleyn girl
And I'm up next, see
I broke England from the Church
Yeah, I'm that sexy
Why did I lose my head?
Well my sleeves may be green
But my lipstick's red!

[All:]
Died

[Jane Seymour:]
Jane Seymour, the only one he truly loved

[All:]
Rude

[Jane Seymour:]
When my son was newly born
I died, but I'm not what I seem
Or am I?
Stick around and you'll
Suddenly see more...

[All:]
Divorced

[Anne Of Cleves:]
Ich bin Anna of Cleves

[All:]
Ja

[Anne Of Cleves:]
When he saw my portrait he was like...

[All:]
Jaa

[Anne Of Cleves:]
But I didn't look as good
As I did in my pic
Funny how we all discuss that
But never Henry's little...

[Katherine Howard:]
Prick up your ears, I'm the Katherine
Who lost her head

[All:]
Beheaded

[Katherine Howard:]
For my promiscuity outside of wed
Lock up your husbands
Lock up your sons
K Howard is here
And the fun's begun

[All:]
Survived

[Catherine Parr:]
Five down, I'm the final wife
I saw him to the end of his life
I'm the survivor, Catherine Parr
I bet you wanna know how I got this far
I said I bet you wanna know
How we got this far

[All:]
Do you wanna know how we got this far?
Then welcome to the show
To the historemix
Switching up the flow
As we add the prefix
Everybody knows that
We used to be six wives
Get your hands up
Get this party buzzing
You want a queen Bee
Well there's half a dozen
Everybody knows that
We used to be six wives
But now we're ex-wives!

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SIX!