Nine People's Favorite Thing

JEFF

We can either follow our instinct

Or take advice from every joker

We can either be distinct

Or wind up merely mediocre

But not me

Not me

When we set out to write this musical

We said we'd write a show that we wanna see

We knew we'd never please everyone

Remember that day at Cristiti's(?)

You said to me

You said to me

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing

Than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing

Nine peoples favorite thing

Than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing

HUNTER

Yeah, you're right, Jeffy let's not compromise

Let's keep making something we've never seen

A risk was taken with "On the Town"

And look what happened Betty and Adolph burst

Onto the scene

JEFF AND HUNTER

A shout out to Comden and Green

And when Bock and Harnick were writing "Tenderloin"

They were taking a risk to write a show about whores

When Kander and Ebb were working on the Rink

I'd like to think at some point; John looked at Fred and said

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing

Than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing

JEFF, HUNTER, SUSAN, AND HEIDI

Nine people's favorite thing than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing

HEIDI

When you handed me the first draft of this show

I'll admit I was a little bit "what the fck?"

But I'm not giving up on you guys until all of us have learned to knit

On the bus and truck

On the bus and truck

And who says four chairs and a keyboard

Can't make a musical

We're enough with only that keyboard

We're okay with only four chairs

We'll be fine with only four chairs

We'll rock hard with only four chairs

JEFF, HUNTER, SUSAN, AND HEIDI

Ahhh-ah

Oooo-ah

Ahhh-ah

Oooo-ahhhhhhh

SUSAN

I am eight years old in Ohio

It is time for the annual church bazaar

There's a cake-baking contest

I am going to be the big star

But I don't want to make a German chocolate

And a seven-layer I'll never complete

So I show up with pride this morning

With a tray of rice-crispie treats

And they try to push them aside

Say that they are too strange to compete

And sure, most of the judges award the red velvet

But one picks the rice-crispie treats

Let our show be the rice-crispie treat

I'd rather be nine people's favorite thing

Than a hundred peoples ninth favorite thing

SUSAN AND HEIDI

Nine people's favorite thing

Than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing

JEFF, HUNTER, SUSAN, AND HEIDI

Those nine people will tell nine people

Then we'll have eighteen people loving the show

Then eighteen people could grow into

Five-hundred and twenty-five-thousand, six-hundred people

Loving our show

JEFF AND HUNTER

And maybe someday if we're lucky enough

We'll all be in a studio recording the show

JEFF, HUNTER, SUSAN, AND HEIDI

And ten years from now when we play the cast album

This track on the CD

Will remind us of why we'd rather be

Nine peoples favorite thing

Than a hundred peoples ninth favorite thing

Nine people's favorite thing

Than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing

JEFF AND HUNTER

So the decision's made

And we're on our way

And we may lose or maybe we might

Be nine people's favorite thing

HEIDI AND SUSAN

Nine people's favorite

JEFF, HUNTER, SUSAN, AND HEIDI

When we open tonight

Tonight