I’M GOING TO MAKE YOU BEAUTIFUL (Woman #1) The woman here is a Bloomingdale’s cosmetics salesperson. As she makes up an imaginary customer, she becomes increasingly offensive, obsessed and neurotic. The authors describe this number as a sort of musical nervous breakdown. PLEASED WITH MYSELF (Cast) In this number, the three characters are head-in-the-clouds in love (not with each other, though). They are full of optimism and energy and remind the audience what it is like to simply feel happy to be alive. ACT II HEY THERE, FANS (Man) This vaudeville-style song energetically welcomes the audience back for act two. The man should be working very hard to be the ultimate entertainer, and, at the end of the song, welcomes the women back from the break. THE GIRL OF THE MINUTE (Man, Woman #1) In this number Man and Woman #1 flash a picture of Woman #2, praising her beauty and style, calling her Cover Girl and the Million Dollar Face! She eventually gets used to the attention and begins to strike outrageous fashion poses. A GIRL YOU SHOULD KNOW (Woman #2) As she slowly drops the ridiculous pose she is holding, Woamn #2 becomes very real and vulnerable, singing right out at the audience. In this song, she wonders if anyone is out there—if anyone really knows her. She admits that on first glance, one might not see all of her inner beauty, but wishes that soon someone might give her a chance. She is ready. TRAVEL (Cast) This number opens with a bit of informal dialogue with the audience. The dialogue describes how the song works: every time that the Man says the word travel the key of the song modulates up a step. This is a big, open-throated song about life and adventure. WATCHING THE BIG PARADE GO BY (Woman #1) The woman in this number watches an invisible parade pass her by. Her vision is full of so much energy and descriptive language that the audience should actually see it. By the end of the song, however, the singer realizes that as much as she loved the parade, she was not a part of it, and it came and went. She admits to herself that she is not a participant in life, but only someone who watches from the sidelines. FLAIR (Man) This song is about the extraordinary inner desires of an otherwise ordinary man. The man’s movements as he sings should fluctuates back and forth between his everyday mannerisms and his secret desire to be dashing and dapper like Fred Astaire. WHAT ABOUT TODAY (Woman #2) In this passionate, fiery number, a woman recovering from a break up urgently points out that while everyone tells her she will feel better soon, such advice is not helping her get through today.
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