Festival! Lyrics

2006 Off-Broadway
Gutenberg! the Musical - Festival! Lyrics


The song is written by Scott Brown and Anthony King.

DOUG: (spoken)
Scene four
The next morning
Today is the day of the German celebration
Known as “Festival”

BUD: (spoken)
Dawn is beginning 
to break over the town of Schlimmer
Beef Fat Trimmer steps forward
Through the stinky morning mist

DOUG: (as Beef Fat Trimmer)
The sun, it rises in the East
I smell bread rising with the yeast
For today is no ordinary day
It’s the day... of Festival

BUD: (as Daughter)
Today I dance

DOUG: (as Beef Fat Trimmer)
This sun, it rises in the East

BUD: (as Daughter)
At Festival)
In knee-rosen pants

DOUG: (as Beef Fat Trimmer)
I smell bread rising with the yeast

BUD: (as Daughter)
Yeah, that’s the festival

BOTH: (as Beef Fat Trimmer & Daughter)
For today is no ordinary day
It’s the day of Festival

BUD: (spoken)
We see Gutenberg pulling a wagon
With the printing press inside
It is covered with a sheet
He is going to the town square
He still does not know the printing press has been destroyed

DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg)
They’ll go nuts
And lift me in their arms
When I show ‘em my press
I’m takin’ to festival

BUD: (as Helvetica)
Oh Gutenberg, I’m sorry

DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg)
I’m so psyched!

BUD: (as Helvetica)
Forgive me!

DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg)
I’ll be even more well liked!

BUD: (as Helvetica)
And the town will have his head
Once they see the printing press is dead!

(as Daughter)
Today I dance

DOUG: (as Beef Fat Trimmer)
The sun, it rises in the east

BUD: (as Helvetica)
(Oh Gutenberg)

BUD: (as Daughter)
At the Festival

DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg)
Gutenberg, Gutenberg, Gutenberg,
Gutenberg, Gutenberg

BUD: (as Helvetica)
Will you ever for-

BUD: (as Daughter)
In knee-rosen pants

DOUG: (as Beef Fat Trimmer)
The sun is rising

BUD: (as Helvetica)
(I smashed your press)

BUD: (as Daughter)
That’s the best

DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg)
Gutenberg, Gutenberg, Gutenberg,
Gutenberg, Gutenberg

BUD: (as Helvetica)
Now I’m a mess

BOTH: (as All)
For today is no ordinary day
It’s the day...

BUD: (as Daughter)
The blessed day

BOTH: (as All)
...of Festival

BOTH (as Drunk 1 & Drunk 2): (spoken)
It’s the festival!

DOUG (as Drunk 1): (spoken)
I’m still drunk!

BUD (as Drunk 2): (spoken)
I’m always drunk!

BOTH: (as Drunk 1 & Drunk 2)
Festival
It’s the best of all
It’s the crest of all our desires
Festival
Take the rest of all of the festivals
To the fires

DOUG: (as Drunk 1)
There is so much food and drink

BUD: (as Drunk 2)
There’s just enough to make you faint

DOUG: (as Drunk 1)
I wish it’d all be tickled pink

BOTH: (as Drunk 1 & Drunk 2)
I’m tellin’ y’all, let’s dance!

DOUG (as Johan Gutenberg): (spoken)
It’s Monk!

BUD: (as Monk)
Don’t forget, I met the devil
In a haunted German wood
I’m a terrible monk and I’ve got a plan
And it’s happenin’ like it should!
Now the girl’s in trouble
And his press is rubble
And his Guten-bubble’s gonna burst!
Ha!

I’ll just wait and see
Wine man Mr. G
As they roast him like a bratwurst
Ha!

DOUG: (as Young Monk)
Why does he have to be so bad?!

BUD: (as Flower Girl)
I’ve got daffodils
And some roses too
But you can’t have one

(spoken)
BECAUSE YOU’RE A JEW!!!

DOUG: (as Johan Gutenberg)
Oh flower girl!
Why must you have this ridiculous hatred of the Jews?
It’s irrational and it’s wrong
It hurts me to see my fellow townspeople
Acting this way
Just think of where all this hatred could lead
Before you know it
We could be in the middle
Of a Second World War
And that’s why I have something under this sheet
That could unite us all

BUD: (spoken)
Everyone gasps

DOUG (as Johan Gutenberg): (spoken)
Oh no!

BUD (as Monk): (spoken)
Well, well, well
What have we here?

DOUG (as Johan Gutenberg): (spoken)
It was a... printing press

BUD (as Monk): (spoken)
A printing press?!
What’s that for?

DOUG (as Johan Gutenberg): (spoken)
It was going to... change the world

BUD (as Monk): (spoken)
Get him!

DOUG: (spoken)
The townspeople converge
And attack Gutenberg
They are filled with irrational mob mentality
And soon collect wood
Light a fire
And burn Gutenberg alive

Lights shift



Review: Gutenberg! the Musical Lyrics


Gutenberg! the Musical Lyrics

PLOT
Prologue/Schlimmer
I Can't Read
Haunted German Wood
The Press Song
I Can't Read (Reprise)
Biscuits
What's The Word?
Stop The Press
Tomorrow Is Tonight
Second Prologue
Words, Words, Words
Monk With Me
Might As Well (Go To Hell)
Festival!
Finale