Opening Medley: Company / Rich and Happy / I Know Things Now / Someone in a Tree
[Part I: Company]
[Intro]
Have we got a girl for you
Wait till you meet her!
Have we got a girl for you, boy?
Hoo, boy!
Please welcome Liz Callaway
[Verse 1]
Phone rings
Door chimes
In comes company!
No strings
Good times
Just chums, company!
Late nights
Quick bites
Party games
Deep talks
Long walks
Telephone calls
Thoughts shared
Souls bared
Private names
All those
Photos
Up on the walls
"With love..."
[Chorus]
With love filling the days
With love seventy ways
"To Stephen with love"
From all these
Good and crazy people, your friends
These good and crazy peoplе, your grateful friends!
And that's what it's all about, isn't it?
We lovе you!
[Outro]
Good evening!
And welcome to a celebration of the musical genius
Stephen Sondheim
A friend, a teacher, and a man who changed my life
[Part II: Rich and Happy]
[Verse 2]
Forty years ago who'd have guessed
Who'd have guessed
I'd be standing here
Singing songs by the very best
Back them I was naïve
Never did I believe
That I would get to know Steve
[Part III: I Know Things Know]
[Verse 3]
And he showed me things
Many beautiful things
That I hadn't thought to explore
They were off my path
So I never had dared
I had been so careful
I never had cared
And he made me feel excited—
Well, excited and scared
[Part IV: Someone in a Tree]
[Verse 4]
I was younger then…
I was good at climbing trees…
I was younger then…
I saw everything!…
I was hidden all the time…
It was easier to climb…
I was younger then…
I saw everything!…
Where they came and where they went...
I was part of the event
I was someone in a tree
I was there then
[Chorus]
And there's someone in a tree
Or the day is incomplete
Without someone in a tree
Nothing happened there
It's the fragment, not the day
It's the pebble, not the stream
It's the ripple, not the sea
That is happening
Not the building but the beam
Not the garden but the stone
Only cups of tea
And history (We love you)
And someone in a tree