I Hope I Get It

**I Hope I Get It** is the first song in the 1975 musical A Chorus Line.

## Synopsis

The opening song, it goes through how every dancer feels during the audition process.

## Lyrics

**Larry****:** Again! Step, kick, kick, leap, in, touch. Again! Step, kick, kick, leap, in, touch. Again! Step, kick, kick, leap, in touch. Again! Step, kick, kick, leap in touch. Right. That connects with turn, turn, out, in, jump, step, kick, kick, leap, in touch. Got it? Going on: and turn, turn, touch it down, right left, pivot, step, walk walk, walk. Right, let's do the whole combination facing away from the mirror. From the top! A five-six-seven-eight!

(instrumental)

**Girls:** God I hope I get it! I hope I get it! How many people does he need?

**Boys:** (How many people does he need?)

**Girls:** God I hope I get it! I hope I get it.

**Girls:** I hope I get it! How many boys how many girls?

**Girls:** (How many boys how many...?)

**All:** Look at all the people! At all the people!

**All:** How many people does he need? How many boys? How many girls? How many people does he...

**Tricia:** I really need this job! Please God I need this job! I've got to get this job!

**Larry:** Right, let's do the ballet combination. Stage left boys, first group of girls, second group follows. A one-two-three-four-five-six.

(Ballet combination)

**All:** God I really blew it! I really blew it! How could I do a thing like that?

**Boys:** (How could I do a thing like that?)

**All:** Now I'll never make it! I'll never make it! He doesn't like the way I look, he doesn't like the way I dance, he doesn't like the way I-

(Jazz combination)

**Larry:** Okay! Girls, a five-six-seven-eight.

(Jazz combination)

**Larry:** Alright, lemme see the boys. The whole group! A five-six-seven-eight.

(Jazz combination)

**All:** I really need this job. Please God I need this job. I've got to get this job!

**Zach****:** Okay, I'm eliminating down now, when I call out your number please form a line on the chorus line. Girls first. Number two, number nine, number ten, number twenty-three; Judy Turner, number thirty-seven, one hundred and forty nine, one hundred fifty two, one hundred and seventy nine, Cassie. Other girls, thank you very much for coming, I'm sorry. Boys: Number five, number seventeen, number forty four, forty five, sixty three, sixty seven, eighty one, and eighty four. Other boys, thank you.

**Remaining 17:** God I think I got it! I think I got it! I knew he liked me all the time!

**Zach:** I want your pictures and resumes please!

**All:** Still it isn't over!

**Maggie Winslow****: (**What coming next?)

**Al DeLuca****: (**What happens now?)

**All:** I can't imagine what he wants! I can't imagine what he wants! God I hope I get it! I hope I get it! I've come this far but even so, it could be yes it could be no, how many people does he- I really need this job!

**Some:** (My unemployment is gone!)

**All:** Please god I need this job!

**Some:** (I thought I had him from the start!)

**All:** I really need this job!

**Zach:** Larry, collect the pictures and resumes please.

**Paul San Marco****:** Who am I anyway? Am I my resume? That is a picture of a person I don't know. What does he want from me? What should I try to be? So many faces all around and here we go! I need this job! Oh God! I need this show.