Will Power

Story
Shakespeare performs for a crowd of fans.

Lyrics (Soundtrack)
[ENSEMBLE (Spoken)] We want Will We want Will (Ladies and gentlemen) We want Will (All the way from) We want Will (Stratford-upon-Avon) We want Will (The King of Couplets) We want Will (The Sultan of Sonnets) We want Will (The man who put the "I am") We want Will (In iambic pentameter) We want Will (Please put your hands together) We want Will (For the one, the only) We want Will (William Shakespeare!) We want Will

[Spoken: THE BARD (Spoken: ENSEMBLE)] Thank you! Is it good to see me or what? (Do Sonnet 18!) (Do "Kingdom for a Horse!") (I love you Will!) Ok, ok, here's one for all you beautiful Tudors out there A little sonnet that's been very good to me Let's see if you know it

[THE BARD (ENSEMBLE)] Shall I compare thee (to a summer's day) Yeah Thou art more lovely and more temperate And the rough winds shake the darling buds of May, yeah And summer's lease (hath all too short a date)

[THE BARD (ENSEMBLE)] I adore the adoration (Ahh-ahh) Though others may abhor it (Ahh-ahh) It's quite a new sensation (Ahh-ahh) What shall we call it? (Ahh)

[ENSEMBLE (THE BARD)] Will Power (I am the will of the people now) He is the will of the people now Will Power (I am the will of the people now) He is the will

[Spoken: THE BARD (Spoken: ENSEMBLE)] Can you feel it? (Whoo!) Oh, I can feel it too In fact, I'd like to feel you a little bit later Do you want more? Well, when do you want it? Tomorrow? (No!) Later? (No!) Let me hear you say "now" (Now) Very nice Let me hear you say "now is" (Now is) That scans Let me hear you say "now is the" (Now is the) Oh, do it with me

[THE BARD (ENSEMBLE)] Now is the winter of our discontent (Now is the winter of our discontent) Made glorious summer by this son of York (Made glorious summer by this son of York)

[Spoken: THE BARD (Spoken: ENSEMBLE)] And let me hear you say "glorious" (Glorious) Do you mean me? (Glorious) Well I can be (Glorious) Now let me see G-L-O-R-I-O-U-S Who fits that bill? (It's Will!) I guess

[THE BARD (ENSEMBLE)] There's a fever going round (Ahh-ahh) Has anybody caught it? (Ahh-ahh) (We're shaking it for Shakespeare!) Methinks you got it

[ENSEMBLE (THE BARD)] Will Power (I am the will of the people now) He is the will of the people now Will Power (I am the will of the people now) He is the will

[Spoken: THE BARD (Spoken: ENSEMBLE)] Huzzah! (Huzzah!) Oh, that is music to my ears And if music be the food of love Play on, (Oh) that's a new one Don't even know where to put it yet Speaking of love Here's one for all you lovers out there

[THE BARD (Spoken)] But soft, what light through yonder window breaks (thank you) It is the east and Juliet is the sun Arise, fair sun and kill The envious moon, oh, the moon Who is already sick and pale So sick and so pale with grief That thou, her maid, (yeah, thou) art far More fair than she Than she (Thank you, I like that one too)

[ENSEMBLE] Will Power Will Power

[THE BARD (THE BARD & ENSEMBLE)] I am the Will with the skill To thrill you with my quill I am the hard-working Bard You regard (Yeah!)

[HE BARD (ENSEMBLE)] I am the Will (He is the Will) I am the Will (He is the Will) I am the man you wanna see Up on the bill (Will, Will, Will, Will) I am the swan (beautiful swan) Of the Avon (The one in Stratford!) The chosen one that God in Heaven Smiled upon (Thank you, God!) And if you wanna see perfection On any given day You know what they say Where there's a Will, there's a way (Will power) Where there's a Will, there's a way (Will power) Will power (Will power!)

[Spoken: THE BARD] Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow!

Characters

 * Shakespeare

Trivia

 * This song references several works written by Shakespeare.
 * Sonnet 18, which makes up the first verse, is one of his most famous sonnets.
 * "Kingdom for a horse" is a line from Richard III.
 * "Though others may abhor it" references a line in Sonnet 150: "O, though I love what others do abhor".
 * Verse II is made up of the opening lines from Richard III.
 * "If music be the food of love, play on" is a line from Twelfth Night.
 * Verse III is an excerpt from Romeo and Juliet.
 * "Parting is such sweet sorrow" also references Romeo and Juliet.
 * "I am the swan" may reference Ben Jonson’s elegy of Shakespeare - To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Master William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us.