Broadway Baby - Live

I'm just a Broadway baby
 Walkin' off my tired feet
 Poundin' 42nd Street to be in a show
 Broadway baby
 Learnin' how to sing and dance
 Waitin' for that one big chance to be in a show
 The first Broadway show I ever saw was a musical written by Stephen Sondheim
 Directed by Hal Prince, playing at the Alvin Theatre
 That show was Company
 I think I was nine or ten at the time
 Probably not the target age for that show
 But I knew then and there that I wanted to be on Broadway
 Gee, I'd like to be on some marquee
 All twinkle and lights
 A spark to pierce the dark
 From Battery Park to Washington Heights
 Someday, maybe
 All my dreams will be repaid
 Heck, I'd even play the maid to be in a show
 So, when I was 18 years old, I left my hometown, Chicago
 And moved to New York City to pursue my dream
 Now, New York was expensive
 So in between going to classes and auditions
 I got a job as a singing waitress
 I was a horrible waitress, but at least it paid the bills
 I'm just a Broadway baby
 Slavin' at a five and ten
 Dreamin' of the great day when I'll be in a show
 Broadway baby
 Makin' rounds all afternoon
 Eatin' at a greasy spoon to save on my dough
 At my tiny flat
 There's just my cat, a bed, and a chair
 Still, I'll stick it 'til I'm on a bill
 All over Times Square
 After what seemed like hundreds of auditions, and hundreds of rejections
 One day I got a call to audition for a new musical called Merrily We Roll Along
 Now, the breakdown was very specific
 They were looking for young people under the age of 21
 So, I stapled my birth certificate to my resume, and off I went
 Now that first audition led to another
 And then another, and then another
 Finally, after five callbacks, I got the job
 I was gonna be on Broadway
 And not only that, I was going to be making my Broadway debut
 In a musical written by Stephen Sondheim
 Directed by Hal Prince and playing at the Alvin Theatre!
 Someday, maybe
 If I stick it long enough
 I may get to strut my stuff
 Working for two nice men
 I'm with Hal Prince and Steve Sondheim
 In a great big Broadway show!