“OK! Here We Go!”

Lyrics

[DOUG, spoken] OK, here we go! [BUD, spoken] Whoo! This is exciting! [DOUG, spoken] Welcome to Gutenberg! [BUD, spoken] Gutenberg... The Musical! [DOUG, spoken] I'm Mr. Doug Simon [BUD, spoken] I'm Mr. Bud Davenport [DOUG, spoken] We've written an exciting new show, and tonight, we want to present it for the very first time! [BUD, spoken] But hopefully not for the last time! [DOUG, spoken] No; With any luck, we're hoping to take our show... to Broadway! [BUD, spoken] And as many of you already know, there are, in the audience tonight, some very big Broadway producers! So... tell them to produce our show! [DOUG, spoken] Now- [BUD, spoken] Yes [DOUG, spoken] -writing a musical is not easy [BUD, spoken] Hats off to you Elton John! [DOUG, spoken] But we did it! I wrote what we call the book of the musical [BUD, spoken] And I wrote the music And the lyrics... well... [BOTH, spoken] We wrote those together! [DOUG, spoken] So you're probably sitting there and thinking to yourself "Okay, so you wrote a musical... But what is it about?" [BUD, spoken] I dunno Doug Why don't you tell us? [DOUG, spoken] Alright, I will! It's about Johan Gutenberg! [BUD, spoken] Who's he? [DOUG, spoken] Well, he's the guy who invented the printing press [BUD, spoken] And then printed up a bunch of copies of The Bible [DOUG, spoken] Now, what you're gonna see tonight is what we call a "reading" of a musical That means there's no set, no costumes, only a few props, and no cast! [BUD, spoken] It's just me and Doug [DOUG, spoken] Right! Now, before we get started, we do want to take a second To talk about something pretty serious And that's the Holocaust Every important musical has to tackle at least one very serious issue [BUD, spoken] Like racism [DOUG, spoken] Or Vietnam [BUD, spoken] Or a man with half a face [DOUG, spoken] Yes Our show is set in Germany So our serious issue is the Holocaust [BUD, spoken] Germans hate Jews! [DOUG, spoken] Well... not all of them... Most of them! [BUD, spoken] Maybe not anymore... But they used to! [DOUG, spoken] That hatred... is in this show [BUD, spoken] It has to be! [DOUG, spoken] Because it makes our show... important And now... [BOTH, spoken] Gutenberg The Musical!