Changing Lives

It's Frank DiLella with New York one's on stage

And we're here for the opening night of Eleanor

The Eleanor Roosevelt musical

Let's talk process

When I'm in character I go insane

I stagger I stammer I sob

I make the audiences feel my pain

And if they don't leave depressed

Then I've not done my job

Each time I find a role like Eleanor

The artist inside of me thrives

I put on that wig and those prosthetic teeth

And know I'm changing lives

By the time I get tuberculosis in act two

Even the people who are dead inside

Will shout Bravo on cue

The first review is in

The new Jersey star- ledger

Don't tell me unless it's a rave

Or a mixed positive

It says we're a hit

Oh my God

We're a hit and I think we deserve it

That's for sure

Also it means that this tour de force

Will not be forced to tour

To Eleanor may she run for eternity

To Eleanor

Cheers to a show that's so inspiring

It's almost too much to sit through

And if we've won that might mean one more thing

That in ten years or so we'll do Eleanor 2

I can predict what the reviews will say

Before the next note has arrived

It's ground- breaking

Earth- shaking

Life- affirming

Breathtaking

Gut- wrenching

Heart- aching

In two words it's history- making

That's why every actor strives

For adulation

And compensation

That comes from nightly

Changing lives

It's just what we do