Original Cast A Line Montage -, Hello Twelve, Mark, Connie) Conceived, choreographed and directed by MICHAEL BENNET Book by JAMES KIRKWOOD and NICHOLAS DANTE FOLLOWS "Sing!" VAL Hello Twelve RICHIE Hello Thirteen MAGGIE Hello Love AL Changes, Oh! Down below DIANA Up above VAL Time to doubt MIKE To break out RICHIE It's a mess MAGGIE (speaks) It's a mess PAUL, JUDY Time to grow AL, MAGGIE Time to go RICHIE, BOBBY, CONNIE Adolesce ALL Adolesce Too young to take over Too old to ignore AL Gee, I'm almost ready ALL But what for There's a lot I am not certain of Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love MARK (Wet Dream/Gonorrhea Bit - Abridged) So, all I could do was drink the water and I drank like twenty gla**es a day (speaks) For three weeks I almost drown Finally I went to confession And I told the priest I had gonorrhea! He was in shock too (sings) "Who have you been with, my son " (Nobody, Nobody.) "Then how can you have gonorrhea " (speaks) I told him about the books diagnosis for milky discharge and he set me straight! It was the only time the church ever helped me out. Well, I was CONNIE (Four-foot Ten Bit) (sings) Four-foot ten, four-foot ten. That's the story of my life I remember when ev'rybody was my size (speaks) Boy, was that great! But then everybody started moving up, and there I was stuck at (sings) Four-foot ten! Four-foot ten. (But I kept hoping and praying.) I used to hang from a parallel bar by the hour Hoping I'd stretch just an inch more (speaks) 'Cause I was into dancing and I was good and I wanted so much to grow up to be a prima ballerina. Then I went out for cheer-leader! And they told me: "No dice. You'd get lost on the football field. The pompoms are bigger than you." I spent my whole childhood waiting to grow VAL Tits! When am I gonna grow tits PAUL Secret, my whole life was a secret MIKE One little fart and they called me "STINKY" for three year. Ohhhh! ALL Goodbye Twelve, goodbye Thirteen. Hello Love Robert Goulet, Robert Goulet, my God, Robert Goulet! ALL Oh! Down below, up above DON Playing doctor with Evelyn ALL La la la RICHIE I'll show you mine ALL La la RICHIE You show me yours ALL La la KRISTINE Seeing Daddy naked! ALL Time to grow. Time to go La, la, la SHEILA Mom and Dad were doing it BOBBY I'm gonna be a movie star CONNIE (speaks) But you see, the only thing about me that grew was my desire (sings) I was never gonna be Maria Tallchief, I was just (dialogue dodging the age issue, but mentions the year of the Chicken) ZACK (speaks) Ah-hah, the year of the Chicken that'll make you, what Thirty-two CONNIE (speaks) Puck-puck-puck-puck girl! So I got caught! But I don't look it, and I shouldn't knock it, 'cause I've always been able to work (sings) From the time I was five in "King and I," "King and I." Up 'til now I've never stopped, 'cause whatever I am, I am (SEQUE to Montage - "Nothing")