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!

## 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.*