(also called 'The Pitch')

Zidler: Spectacular, Spectacular
No words in the vernacular
Can describe this great event
You'll be dumb with wonderment
Returns are fixed at ten percent
You must agree, thats excellent
And on top, of your fee
All: You'll be involved artisticly

So exciting the audience will stomp and cheer
So delighting it will run for fifty years
So exciting the audience will stomp and cheer
So delighting it will run for fifty years

Elephants
Bohemians
Indians and
Courtesans
Acrobats and juggling bears
Exotic girls
Fire eaters!

Muscle men, contortionists
Intrigue danger, and romance
Electric lights, machinery
And all that electricity!

So exciting the audience will stomp and cheer
So delighting it will run for fifty years
So exciting the audience will stomp and cheer
So delighting it will run for fifty years

Spectacular Spectacular
No words in the vernacular
Can't describe this great event
You'll be dumb with wonderment

The hills are alive with the sound of music

So exciting the audience will stomp and cheer
So delighting it will run for fifty years
So exciting the audience will stomp and cheer
So delighting it will run for fifty years

Duke: ...Yes but what happens in the end?

Christian: The courtesan and sitar man
Are pulled apart by an evil plan
Satine: But in the end she hears his song
C: And their love is just too strong
Duke: It's a little bit funny this feeling inside

So exciting the audience will stomp and cheer
So delighting it will run for fifty years

C: The sitar players secret song
Helps them flee the evil one
Though the tyrant rants and rails
It is all to no avail

Zidler: I am the evil Maharadja, you will not escape!
S: Oh Harold no one can play him like you could.
Z: No one's going too.

So exciting we'll make them laugh we'll make them cry
So delighting...
D: And in the end should someone die?

So exciting the audience will stomp and cheer
So delighting it will run for fifty years