The Gay Life
The Gay Life is a musical with a book by Fay and Michael Kanin, lyrics by Howard Dietz, and music by Arthur Schwartz.
Based on a cycle of seven short plays by Arthur Schnitzler, published in 1893 and first staged in 1910, The Gay Life focuses on womanizing playboy Anatol Von Huber. The score is a mixture of traditional Broadway show tunes and operetta.
Production
The Gay Life started pre-Broadway try-outs at the Fisher Theater in Detroit and the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto. The production opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on November 18, 1961 and closed on February 24, 1962 after 113 performances and three previews. Directed by Gerald Freedman and choreographed by Herbert Ross, the cast included Walter Chiari as Anatol, Barbara Cook as Liesl, and Jules Munshin as Max, with Elizabeth Allen as Magda.
Because of the new meaning which the term "gay" had acquired since the show's original staging, its title was changed to The High Life when it was presented in concert by the off-Broadway Musicals Tonight! in October 2005.
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The Life
by: EstelleThis is the life and we live this to the fullest
Do whatever we like
They said that all I had to do was rap rap and rap again
Go ahead and get buh buh back to black again
Back to the future back to all that again
1980's stuff oh yeah all of that again
So here I go now I'm talking my stuff
Talking bout your shoe game and I'm a call your bluff
Talking bout your style then and I'm a pull you up
Just tossing out the talk when you ain't got none
Questions of [?] L.A. to Chicago
Fly is just fly even if you ain't a model
[?] and some [?] and you known for the bullshit
Keep it really real cause this is
The life and we live this to the fullest
Do whatever we like cause we young and we are foolish
So this one's for London yeah yeah
Wherever you came from yeah yeah
And this one's for Brooklyn yeah yeah
Then back but there ain't no tomorrow to come
They say I'm ever so clean to the point that she stank
So I said I would do a whole song of [?]
Stuck on the beat like Ye's on the track
Wack songs kinda [?] and I'm a [?]
I'm a say whatever I like cause that's me
You could take your opinions and eat cheese
Check me on 1 I'm not of the moment
I am a [?] I live at the MoMA
She going to far now get up to par now
Tiny with a temper I'm a get till I pass out
I wanna see who's really getting their clown on
So I'm a keep it this this real from now on
This is the life and we live this to the fullest
Do whatever we like cause we young and we are foolish
So this one's for London yeah yeah
Wherever you came from yeah yeah
And this one's for Brooklyn yeah yeah
Then back but there ain't no tomorrow to come
Now I been [?] should get you off your back
Do you be free cause I'm me that's that
This one's for London this ones for England
DC Miami L.A. to Beijing
Russia to Rio Paris to Kingston
This is the life and we live this to the fullest
Do whatever we like cause we young and we are foolish
So this one's for London yeah yeah
Wherever you came from yeah yeah
And this one's for Brooklyn yeah yeah