[ Featuring Original Broadway Cast of Lempicka ]
[TAMARA]
Woman is shape, breath, form
Woman is bone, muscle, light
Woman is curve and shadow
Woman is...
[AUCTIONEER 1, spoken]
Yes, I discovered her — the name is Lempicka. She had been completely forgotten. I found a whole cache of these canvases in a storage vault in Paris. Amazing representation of that era!
[TAMARA, sung]
And time — merciless beast —
Keeps speeding by
[AUCTIONEER 1, spoken]
So decadent! So Deco!
[TAMARA, sung]
Unsee seeing, making us dizzy
Spin and velocity
Grip the wheel tight
[AUCTIONEER 1 , spoken]
But there's something about this work —
[TAMARA]
Stop
[AUCTIONEER 1]
It reaches out
[TAMARA]
Just stop
[AUCTIONEER 1]
It grabs you
[TAMARA]
Catch one moment!
[AUCTIONEER 1]
Thе women are like machinеs! The machines are like women!
[BUYER]
I bid!
[AUCTIONEER 1]
Sold for $2.3 million
[AUCTIONEER 2]
For $12.6 million
[AUCTIONEER 1]
$25 million!
[TAMARA, sung]
Spinning so fast
The world rushes by, a giant machine
Can you make the world stop?
Just for a moment?
They're your dark eyes, they're your smile
Your laugh, your stride, your light
Your color, your pulse
Your sweat, your speed
Your muscle, your flesh
Your skin, your bone
Your shadow, your breath
Your blood, your mouth
Your cry shattered
[repeated]
[ENSEMBLE, overlapping]
The world spins...
The world spins...
Revolution!
Revolution!
The world spins...
[TAMARA, overlapping]
Your dark eyes, they're your smile
Your laugh, your stride, your light...
[ENSEMBLE]
The world spins
We live, we die
How can we know?
We never know what will survive (Revolution!)
When everything shatters, what matters?
You and I...
The world spins, hold on tight
Our time!
The world never stops its spin (Revolution!)
Our time!
The stars never stop their shine (Hold on tight)
You and I, what will we do?
(Now it's) Our time!
Our time...
[TAMARA]
We do not control the world
[ENSEMBLE]
Our time...
[TAMARA]
We control one flat rectangle of canvas
At a time...