One Short Day

[TOURISTS]

One short day

If you only have, if you only have one short day

One short day in the Emerald City

One short day in the Emerald City

One short day, one short day, one short day, one short day

In the Emerald City

Emerald City

One short day in the Emerald City

One short day full of so much to do

Every way that you look in this city

There's something exquisite you'll want to visit

Before the day's through

[ELPHABA]

There are buildings tall as Quoxwood trees

[GLINDA]

Dress salons

[ELPHABA]

And libraries

[GLINDA]

Palaces

[ELPHABA]

Museums

[ELPHABA & GLINDA]

A hundred strong

There are wonders likе I've never seen

[GLINDA]

It's all grand

[ELPHABA]

And it's all green

[ELPHABA & GLINDA]

I think wе've found the place where we belong

I wanna be in this hoi polloi

[ELPHABA]

So I'll be back for good someday

[GLINDA]

To make my life and make my way

[ELPHABA & GLINDA]

But for today, we'll wander and enjoy

[ALL]

One short day in the Emerald City

One short day to have a lifetime of fun

One short day

[ELPHABA & GLINDA]

And we're warning the city

Now that we're in here

You'll know we've been here

[ALL]

Before we are done

[ANNOUNCER]

Presenting the absolute factual story of our wonderful Wizard of Oz

Starring the Emerald City players

[PRESENTER]

Long, long ago, long before we can recall

There lived here in Oz the magical wise ones

[WIZOMANIA CHOIR]

Ah, the magical wise ones

[WIZOMANIA CHOIR & PRESENTER]

The wisest of them all

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 1]

We will not live forever

That, I can foresee

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 2]

So let us set all of our magic

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 1]

In a strange and secret language

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 1 & 2]

In a book

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 2 & CHOIR]

The Grimmerie

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 1 & CHOIR]

The Grimmerie

[PRESENTER]

But time ticked ever onward day by day

[WIZOMANIA CHOIR]

Oh

[PRESENTER]

And all those who could read it passed away

[WIZOMANIA CHOIR]

Oh

[PRESENTER & WIZOMANIA CHOIR]

'Til one day, no one could

[PRESENTER]

But the wise ones left a prophecy

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 1]

In Oz's darkest hour

Though we cannot say when

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 2]

There will come one with the power

To read the Grimmerie again

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 1]

And Oz, which had been sad and blah

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 2 & CHOIR]

Once more will sing a joyous

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 1]

Oh

[PRESENTER, spoken]

Look!

A man in a balloon arriving from the sky

Maybe he is here to fulfill the prophecy

But can he read the Grimmerie?

[WIZOMANIA CHOIR]

This man who comes out of the blue

Is he the prophecy?

[PRESENTER]

There's one way we'll know if it's true

[PRESENTER & WIZOMANIA CHOIR, WIZOMANIA CHOIR]

Fetch the Grimmerie (The Grimmerie)

[WIZARD OF OZ, spoken]

Omaha

Omaha

[WOMAN, spoken]

He can read it

He must be

A Wizard

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 1]

The prophecy fulfilled

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 2]

What merriness he'll bring

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 1 & 2]

Now every Ozian raise a voice and sing

And sing, and sing

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 2]

Who's the mage whose major

Itinerary is making all Oz merrier?

[WIZOMANIA SINGER 1]

Who's the sage who sagely

Sailed in to save our posteriors?

[WIZOMANIA CHOIR]

Whose enthuse for hot-air ballooning

Has all of Oz honeymooning?

Ooh, isn't he wonderful?

Our wonderful Wizard

[ELPHABA & GLINDA, WIZOMANIA CHOIR]

One short day (Who's the mage whose major)

In the Emerald City (Itinerary is making all Oz merrier?)

One short day (Who's the sage who sagely)

To have a lifetime of fun (Sailed in to save our posteriors?)

[ALL]

What a way to be seeing the city

[ELPHABA & GLINDA]

Where so many roam to

We'll call it home too

And then, just like now, we can say

We're just two friends

[ELPHABA]

Two good friends

[GLINDA]

Two best friends

[ALL]

Sharing one wonderful

One short

[GUARD, spoken]

The Wizard will see you now!

[ALL]

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