Sunset Boulevard - Let's Have Lunch Lyrics

Broadway revival 2017
Sunset Boulevard the Musical - Let's Have Lunch Lyrics

"Let's Have Lunch" is a song from Sunset Boulevard the musical performed by Michael Xavier (Joe), Siobhan Dillon (Betty) and other.

JOE
Hi there, Myron

MYRON
How's it hanging?

JOE
I've got a date with Sheldrake

MYRON
I'm shooting a Western down at Fox

JOE
How can you work with Darryl?

MYRON
We should talk

JOE
Gotta run

BOTH
Let's have lunch

MARY
Hi, Mr. Gillis

JOE
You look great!

MARY
I'm up for an audition

JOE
Sheldrake is driving me insane

MARY
Don't forget me when you're casting

JOE
We should talk

MARY
Gotta run

BOTH
Let's have lunch

JOE                              MARY
Morning, Joanna             Hi, there Myron

JOANNA                        MYRON
Who are you meeting?   You look great

JOE                              MARY
Sheldrake,                     I've spent the
but do I need it              last month fasting

JOANNA                        MYRON
I'm handing in                I'm shooting a Western
my second draft             down at Fox

JOE                             MARY
I'd really love                 Don't forget me when
to read it                      you're casting

JOANNA                       MYRON
We should talk              We should talk

JOE                             MARY
Gotta run                     Gotta run

ALL FOUR
Let's have lunch

JOE (spoken)
Yeah, I had an appointment with Mr. Sheldrake

JONES (spoken)
Name?

JOE (spoken)
Gillis. Joseph Gillis

JONES (spoken)
All right, sir, you know your way?

JOE (spoken)
Yeah

FIRST FINANCEMAN
We want the keys to your car

SECOND FINANCEMAN
You're way behind with the payments

FIRST FINANCEMAN
Don't give us any fancy footwork

SECOND FINANCEMAN
Give us the keys

JOE
I only wish I could help
I loaned it to my accountant
He has an important client down in Palm Springs
Felt like shooting the breeze

FIRST FINANCEMAN
Are you telling us you walked here?

JOE
I believe in self-denial
I'm in training for the priesthood

SECOND FINANCEMAN
O.K., wise guy, three hundred bucks

FIRST FINANCEMAN
Or we're taking the car

SECOND FINANCEMAN
We have a court order

JOE
I love it when you talk dirty

SAMMY
Bless you, Joseph

JOE
That you, Sammy?

SAMMY
How do you like my harem?

JOE
How come you get such lousy breaks?

SAMMY
One learns to grin and bear 'em

GIRLS
This is the biggest film ever made

JOE
What're you playing?

ANITA
Temple virgin

DAWN
Handmaiden to Delilah

JOE
Let's have lunch
Gotta run

You've got to find me a job
I'm way behind with my payments
I thought you were meant to be my agent
I need some work

MORINO
I only wish I could help
This town is dead at the moment
There's been this slowdown in production

JOE
Who is this jerk?

MORINO
He's my wunderkind from Broadway
Every major studio wants him

YOUNGER MAN
Playing one against the other

JOE
What I need is three hundred bucks

MORINO
Maybe what you need is a new agent

JOE
Hello, Artie

ARTIE
Joe, you bastard!

JOE
You never call me any more

ARTIE
Found a cuter dancing partner
How are things?

JOE
Not so great

ARTIE
Will this help?
Twenty bucks?

JOE
Thanks, you're a pal

ALL (spoken)
Good morning, Mr. DeMille

SHELDRAKE
This is Sheldrake
Bring some water
Get me that shithead Nolan

Nolan, sweetheart
Great to talk
This draft is so much brighter
You're the best
Even so
I've hired another writer

SECRETARY (spoken)
Mr. Gillis

SHELDRAKE (spoken)
Joe! What the fuck brings you here?

JOE (spoken)
You wanted to see me

SHELDRAKE (spoken)
I did? What about?

JOE (spoken)
"Bases Loaded." It's an outline for a baseball picture

SHELDRAKE (spoken)
So, pitch

JOE (spoken)
It's about a rookie shortstop. He's batting .347.
The kid was once mixed up in a holdup. Now he's trying to go straight

SHELDRAKE  (spoken)
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I think I have read this
Somebody, bring in what we've got on...

JOE (spoken)
"Bases Loaded."

SHELDRAKE  (spoken)
..."Bases Loaded."

JOE (spoken)
They're pretty hot for it over at Twentieth

SHELDRAKE  (spoken)
Good!

JOE (spoken)
But can you see Ty Power as a shortstop?

ENSEMBLE
Let's have lunch

BETTY (spoken)
Here's that "Bases Loaded" material, Mr. Sheldrake
I made a two-page synopsis for you,
but I wouldn't bother to read it

SHELDRAKE (spoken)
Why not?

BETTY (spoken)
It's just a rehash of something
that wasn't very good to begin with

SHELDRAKE (spoken)
Meet Mr. Gillis. He wrote it

ENSEMBLE
We should talk

SHELDRAKE (spoken)
This is Miss Kramer

BETTY (spoken)
Schaefer. Betty Schaefer. And right now,
I'd like to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me

JOE (spoken)
If I could be of any help...

BETTY (spoken)
I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, I couldn't see the point of it

JOE (spoken)
What sort of material do you suggest? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky?

BETTY (spoken)
I think pictures should at least try to say a little something

JOE (spoken)
I see you're one of the message kids
I expect you'd have turned down "Gone With the Wind"

SHELDRAKE (spoken)
No, that was me

ENSEMBLE
Gotta run

BETTY (spoken)
And I guess I was disappointed
I've read some of your other work
and I thought you had some real talent

JOE (spoken)
Yeah, that was last year. This year I felt like eating

BETTY (spoken)
Well, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis

SHELDRAKE (spoken)
Thank you, Miss Kramer
Well, looks like Zanuck's got himself a baseball picture

ENSEMBLE
We should talk
Gotta run
Let's have lunch

JOE
You've got to give me some work
I'll take whatever's on offer
There must be some shit that needs a rewrite
Throw it my way

SHELDRAKE
I only wish I could help
There's no spare shit at the moment
Remember the greatest writers starved in garretts
Didn't care about pay

JOE
Are you trying to be funny?

SHELDRAKE
I believe in self-denial
Gives a man some moral backbone

JOE
Can you loan me three hundred bucks?

SHELDRAKE
I'm sorry, Gillis. Good-bye

JOE
I just love Hollywood

MORINO
Let's pencil Thursday morning

MYRON                      CLIFF                                  SAMMY
Morning, Joanna         Where've you been hiding?      Hi there, Lisa

MYRON                     KATHERINE                 CLIFF
How're you doing?     I hate this weather        You look great

LIZ                      MARY                             JOANNA
RKO are ok!          What're you doing?       You look great

GIRLS                       CLIFF                       MARY
This is the biggest      I'm trying to make     Guess I was
film ever made           my mind up               born to play her

DAWN                 JOANNA                  SAMMY
What is my           You look great         They're talking
motivation?                                         nominations

LIZ                            MYRON                    MORINO
You should go work    Is your new script       I'm very close
for Warners               with Sheldrake?          to Sheldrake

ARTIE                   SAMMY, SANDY, ARTIE,    JOHN
We shoot next         MORINO, MYRON          Let's drive to
month                   Gotta run                        Vegas this weekend

KATHERINE, JOANNA    ANITA                  JOANNA
Let's have lunch      You look great       I'm handing in my second draft

MARY                     KATHERINE                 ADAM
It's between me      I've landed a          I'm gonna work for Metro
and Dietrich             big Broadway show

CLIFF                 MARY                         GIRLS
Let's have lunch      Let's have lunch       Let's have lunch, this is
the biggest film ever made

MYRON                CLIFF                    JOHN
I'd really love      I'd know just how        Let's have lunch
to read it          to light you

JOHN/LISA            MORINO
It won't work        Let's pencil Thursday morning

GROUP 1
We should talk

GROUP 2
Gotta run

ALL
Let's have lunch!

Hi, good morning
Aren't we lucky?
Going to work with Cukor
Paramount is paradise
Movies from A to Zukor
We should talk, gotta run

GROUP 1
Let's have lunch

GROUP 2
We should talk

GROUP 1
Gotta run

GROUP 2
Gotta run

ALL
Let's have lunch!

JOE, spoken, to BETTY
Come to get your knife back? It's still right there,
right between my shoulder blades


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