Monday, September 1, 2014

Impossible -Cinderella

I really love Rodgers and Hammerstein and I've been on a Cinderella kick recently, so I thought I'd post this lovely duet. In this number the Fairy Godmother convinces Cinderella that "impossible things are happening every day." Sing as either Cinderella or the Fairy Godmother, as I've provided both tracks. There is some small dialogue in the middle, which I based off of the 2013 revival version.
Here are the lyrics:

 GODMOTHER
Impossible!
For a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage!
Impossible!
For a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage!
And four white mice could never be four white horses, 
Such fol-de-rol and fiddle-dee-dee of course is, 
Impossible!
But, the world is full of zanies and fools
Who don't believe in sensible rules
And won't believe what sensible people say,
And because these daft and dewey-eyed dopes keeps building up impossible hopes
Impossible, things are happening every day!

CINDERELLA
Impossible

GODMOTHER
Impossible

CINDERELLA
Impossible

GODMOTHER
Impossible

CINDERELLA
Impossible

GODMOTHER
Impossible

CINDERELLA & GODMOTHER
Impossible!

--[Dialogue]---
CINDERELLA
-But if you could be a beggar woman, not five minutes ago, and now you are my fairy godmother! then anything IS possible?! Right?!

GODMOTHER
-I suppose so!

CINDERELLA
-Then you could change it all! You could make it all happen!

GODMOTHER
-No, but YOU could change it all, YOU can make it all happen!

CINDERELLA
-Well, never, I couldn't!

GODMOTHER
-You're right, it's all soo...

---[Sing]---

Impossible!
For a plain yellow pumpkin to become a golden carriage!
Impossible!
For a plain country bumpkin and a prince to join in marriage!
And four white mice could never be four white horses, 
Such fol-de-rol and fiddle-dee-dee of course is, 
Impossible!

CINDERELLA
But, the world is full of zanies and fools
Who don't believe in sensible rules
And won't believe what sensible people say,

CINDERELLA & GODMOTHER
And because these daft and dewey-eyed dopes keeps building up impossible hopes
Impossible, things are happening every day!



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