Board Of Govenors

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Song Board Of Govenors
Artist Frank Wildhorn
Album Jekyll & Hyde: The Gothic Musical Thriller
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[00:10.67] RECORDING SECRETARY:The Board of Governors of St. Jude's Hospital is now in session
[00:16.28] Sir Danvers Carew, KBE, Chairman
[00:20.53] His Grace, The Bishop of Basingstoke
[00:26.91] General Lord Glossop
[00:30.47] The Right Honorable Sir Archibald Proops, Q.C
[00:37.09] Lady Beaconsfield
[00:40.78] Lord Savage
[00:44.67] The Order of business will be conducted by the Secretary to the Board of Governors, Mr. Simon Stride
[00:54.69] STRIDE :Proposition No. 929: Presented by Dr. Henry Jekyll
[01:03.41] GENERAL GLOSSOP:Jekyll, you're all talk an' no result!...
[01:05.06] BISHOP OF BASINGSTOKE:Forever asking us to endorse empty promises!
[01:06.57] SIR ARCHIBALD PROOPS:What's all the mystery? Much ado about nothing, if you ask me...
[01:09.11] LADY BEACONSFIELD:You're the laughingstock of your profession and polite society! The mad scientist!
[01:12.02] STRIDE:Order! Order!
[01:23.21] JEKYLL:Distinguished Governors
[01:25.21] I have glimpsed the future
[01:27.87] Seen miracles that stun the mind
[01:29.94] And marvels only science can find
[01:32.39] To shape tomorrow for mankind
[01:34.93] And I can show them to you
[01:38.12] If you wish me to...
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[01:51.47] Friends, you're aware there are two sides to each of us
[01:54.51] Good and evil, compassion and hate
[01:57.14] If we could extract all the evil from each of us
[02:00.60] Think of the world that we could create
[02:04.14] A world without anger or violence or strife
[02:07.27] Where man wouldn't kill anymore
[02:10.37] A world of compassion, where passion for life
[02:13.97] Would banish the madness of war
[02:19.41] I'm close to finding the key to duality
[02:22.82] Chemical Formulae which could - and would
[02:26.59] Alter the patterns of man's personality
[02:29.44] Guiding him either to evil or good!
[02:32.59] Weigh the potential, the great possibilities
[02:35.92] Colleagues - dear friends, understand
[02:39.57] We have a chance to make history here in our hand
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[02:48.94] Each of us is the embodiment of two distinct and opposing forces
[02:53.57] Good and Evil -each fighting for supremacy inside us.
[02:56.73] If we could separate these two forces, we could control and ultimately eliminate all evil from mankind.
[03:02.96] My experiments with animals have led me to believe that the day is not far off when this separation will be possible.
[03:09.73] To achieve it, I must be allowed to try my formula on a living human being!
[03:14.01] BISHOP OF BASINGSTOKE:And what if you're right, Jekyll? And you do manage to separate Good from Evil...
[03:19.94] what happens to the evil?
[03:22.29] JEKYLL:There are doomed, broken souls in a thousand asylums
[03:26.40] I defy you to say you don't care if you can
[03:29.00] In the name of compassion and medical science
[03:32.18] I can save many lives, if you give me one man
[03:39.27] BISHOP OF BASINGSTOKE:I tell you now, the Church will never sanction it!
[03:44.08] VARIOUS:Sacrilege! Lunacy! Blasphemy! Heresy!
[03:47.31] SIR ARCHIBALD PROOPS:You seem to be treading on dangerous ground
[03:49.78] In legal terms, I'd say - extremely unsound!
[03:52.88] BISHOP OF BASINGSTOKE:The whole thing's un-christian, barbaric and odd!
[03:56.27] You're playing with fire when you start to play God!
[04:00.07] STRIDE:The Bishop speaks for all of us
[04:01.28] When he says you're playing God!
[04:02.98] There's such a thing as ethics
[04:04.80] Over which you ride rough-shod!
[04:06.83] You're a Doctor, not a saviour
[04:08.55] Doctor Jekyll, for a start!
[04:10.28] But I judge from your behaviour
[04:12.38] You can't tell the two apart!
[04:18.08] JEKYLL:Dear Mr. Stride, I am simply a scientist
[04:21.21] I have a code to which I remain true
[04:24.00] I don't presume to the stature of moralist
[04:27.17] I leave pretension like that, Sir, to you!
[04:30.47] SIR DANVERS:Henry, I've always encouraged your enterprise
[04:33.44] And I've been hopeful that you would succeed!
[04:36.62] But in the face of these powerful arguments
[04:40.18] I see no choice but for you to concede!
[04:48.95] JEKYLL:I know my fate is yours to choose
[04:51.23] But if they win, the world would lose
[04:53.16] I am on the brink of great success!
[04:55.94] I beg you, Governors, you must say "Yes!"
[05:02.07] LADY BEACONSFIELD:Doctor Jekyll, enough of this ranting, Sir!
[05:04.81] This is a hospital, here to save lives!
[05:08.09] GOVERNORS:Do you think we would let you play havoc
[05:11.05] With all the high principles for which it strives?
[05:14.31] Do you expect us to compromise all that we stand for
[05:18.70] Indulging your dangerous games?
[05:21.09] How many rules should we break for your dubious games?
[05:25.45] JEKYLL:Can't you see? I am not playing games!
[05:28.23] Just give me the opportunity!
[05:30.26] GENERAL GLOSSOP:This whole thing's too bizarre!
[05:32.13] SIR DANVERS:Open up your eyes and see!
[05:33.78] BISHOP OF BASINGSTOKE:This man has gone too far!
[05:36.15] JEKYLL:Unless you listen to me...
[05:37.70] STRIDE:Doctor, please watch your tone!
[05:39.15] Dammit, man, can't you see?
[05:41.05] You're on your own!
[05:43.91] JEKYLL:Fools!
[05:44.11] GOVERNERS:(unintelligible yelling)
[05:44.70] You fools!
[05:45.52] God damn your rules
[05:46.97] Look at yourselves
[05:48.04] Civilized men!
[05:48.91] Why can't you see?
[05:54.09] STRIDE:Order! Order!
[05:55.22] JEKYLL:If I ever needed further justification for my experiments, gentlemen, you have just provided it!
[06:01.36] JEKYLL:Just look at what has happened here!
[06:03.27] Mix anger with a touch of fear
[06:04.89] The danger's all too crystal-clear
[06:06.67] Just look at you!
[06:07.89] Our darker side keeps breaking through
[06:10.20] Observe it now - in me and you!
[06:11.84] The evil that all men can do
[06:13.61] Must be controlled!
[06:15.00] I beg of you
[06:16.59] I'll show you all it can be done!
[06:23.47] Here is a chance to take charge of our fate
[06:26.16] Deep down you must know that tomorrow's too late
[06:30.73] One rule of life we cannot rearrange
[06:35.03] The only thing constant is change
[06:42.08] The only thing constant... is change
[06:51.03] STRIDE:Distinguished colleagues, your verdict, please
[06:56.20] All those is favour, say "Aye"
[07:02.04] All those opposed, "Nay"
[07:08.30] GOVERNORS:Nay! Nay! Nay! Nay!
[07:12.07] Positively, absolutely nay!
[07:22.51] STRIDE:Sir Danvers?
[07:27.01] SIR DANVERS:Abstain
[07:29.77] STRIDE:By five votes to none - with one abstention - Proposition 929 is rejected.
[07:35.39] Thank you for your time, Dr. Jekyll
[07:39.00] SIR DANVERS:I am truly sorry, Henry
[07:45.12] JEKYLL:All these precious years I've dedicated to this dream
[07:49.06] Now with a word they claim the power to deny me
[07:52.75] Who are they to judge what I am doing?
[07:55.39] They know nothing of the endless possibilities I see
[07:59.98] It's ludicrous I'm bound by their decision
[08:02.97] Seems vision is a word they've never heard!
[08:07.23] If it mattered less, I'd treat it with derision
[08:10.43] It's absurd!
[08:15.35] And yet the fact remains
[08:19.04] Those bastards hold the reins!
[08:27.49] STRIDE:I'm so sorry, Doctor Jekyll
[08:31.57] What a really rotten shame!
[08:34.21] I so hope that what has happened
[08:37.24] Won't destroy your precious name!
[08:43.51] Henry Jekyll, I despise you!
[08:50.24] You have stolen the girl who should be my wife!
[08:55.40] But there'll come a day, not so far away
[09:01.42] When you'll not only pay
[09:04.24] You will pay all your life!
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