Footlight Fever Medley Bernadette Peters

[SPOKEN:]
I’ve been in love with this business since I was four years old
So I’d run home from school and put on the four o’clock movie
And they were always movie musicals from the 1930’s
Well, I saw so many of them
Well, I saw all of them, really, every single one of them
But I can’t tell you what any one of them was about
Because somehow all those musicals seem to boil down to this:

Paradise Pictures presents, da da!
A Walter Painter production, da da!
Starring Little Miss Nobody, da da!
Written by Sheldon Keller, da da!
And Ryan Blackburn, da da!

[SUNG:]
Footlight fever [???] spell
Broadway’s where they go, said you give ‘em hell
Once you got it, there’s no way to shake loose
Footlight fever, you’re cooking my F-O-O-T-L-I-T-E
And that spells Broadway in New Orleans

[SPOKEN:]
Well, that’s how those musicals always started
And then, remember, there’s always a little farmgirl
Who had come to the big city to seek her fame and fortune