Company - Original Broadway Cast: Getting Married Today

CHOIRGIRL: Bless this day,

Pinnacle of life,

Husband joined to wife.

The heart leaps up to behold

This golden day.

PAUL: Today is for Amy,

Amy, I give you the rest of my life,

To cherish and to keep you, to honor you forever.

Today is for Amy,

My happily soon-to-be wife.

AMY: Pardon me, is everybody there? Because if everybody's there,

I want to thank you all for coming to the wedding,

I'd appreciate your going even more,

I mean you must have lots of better things to do,

and not a word of this to Paul, remember Paul, you know,

the man I'm gonna marry, but I'm not,

because I wouldn't ruin anyone as wonderful as he is

But I thank you all For the gifts and the flowers,

Thank you all, Now it's back to the showers,

Don't tell Paul, But I'm not getting married today.

CHOIRGIRL: Bless this day,

Tragedy of life,

Husband yoked to wife.

The heart sinks down and feels dead

This dreadful day.

AMY: Listen, everybody, look, I don't know what you're waiting for,

a wedding, what's a wedding,

it's a prehistoric ritual where everybody promises fidelity forever,

which is maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard of,

which is followed by a honeymoon,

where suddenly he'll realize he's saddled

with a nut, and wanna kill me, which he should--

So listen, thanks a bunch, But I'm not getting married--

Go have lunch, Cause I'm not getting married--

You've been grand, But I'm not getting married--

Don't just stand there, I'm not getting married--

And don't tell Paul, But I'm not getting married today.

Go, can't you go?

Why is no-Body listening?

Goodbye, Go and cry

At another person's wake.

If you're quick, For a kick,

You could pick Up a christening,

But please, On my knees,

There's a human life at stake!

Listen everybody, I'm afraid you didn't hear,

or do you want to see a crazy lady fall apart in front of you,

it isn't only Paul who may be ruining his life,

you know we'll both of us be losing our identities,

I telephoned my analyst about it and he said to see him Monday,

but by Monday I'll be floating in the Hudson with the other garbage--

I'm not well, So I'm not getting married--

You've been swell, But I'm not getting married--

Clear the hall, Cause I'm not getting married--

Thank you all, But I'm not getting married--

And don't tell Paul, But I'm not getting married today.

CHOIRGIRL: Bless this bride,

Totally insane,

Slipping down the drain.

And bless this day in our hearts

As it starts

To rain.

PAUL: Today is for Amy AMY: Go, can't you go?

PAUL: Amy, I give you the rest of my life AMY: Look,

you know I adore you all But why Watch me die, Like Eliza on the ice?

PAUL: To cherish and to keep you, to honor you forever AMY:

Look, perhaps I'll collapse In the apse Right before you all,

PAUL: Today is for Amy, my happily,

soon-to-be wife AMY:

So take Back the cake, Burn the shoes and boil the rice.

Look, I didn't wanna have to My adorable tell you,

but I may be coming Wife. down with Hepatitis,

and I think I'm gonna faint, so if you wanna see me faint,

I'll do it happily,

but wouldn't it be funnier to go and watch a funeral,

so thank you for the twenty-seven dinner plates,

thirty-seven butter knives,

forty-seven paperweights, fifty-seven candleholders--

PAUL: One more thing-- AMY: I am not getting married! CHOIR: Amen!

PAUL: Softly said-- AMY: But I'm not getting married CHOIR: Amen!

PAUL: With this ring-- AMY: Still I'm not getting married CHOIR: Amen!

PAUL: I thee wed. AMY: See, I'm not getting married CHOIR: Amen!

PAUL: AMY: Let us pray Let us pray That we are

getting married That I'm not getting married Today! Today!

CHOIR: AMEN!!!