Act I: Let Me Entertain You - Karen Moore, Jacqueline Mayro, Ethel Merman

Let me entertain you

Let me make you smile

Let me do a few tricks

Some old and then some new tricks

I’m very versatile

And if you’re real good

I’ll make you feel good

I’d want your spirit to climb

So let me entertain you

We’ll have a real good time

Yes sir!

We’ll have

A real good time!

Hello!

Hello everybody!

My name is Gypsy Rose Lee — what’s yours?

Mr. Conductor, if you please!

So, let me entertain you

And we’ll have a real good time, yes, sir!

We’ll have

A real good time!

Gypsy Rose Lee

Pick up your apples girls and back to the trees!

Bon soir, monsieur et monsieur!

Je m’appelle Gypsy Rose Lee

And that concludes my entire performance in French

I’ve been too busy learning Greek

Where were you last night?

Some men accused me of being an ecdysiast!

Do you know what that means?

Do you?

Do you?

Oh, you do!

Aha!

He’s embarrassed!

Don’t be embarrassed… I like man without hair!

An ecdysiast is one who or that which

Sheds its skin!

In vulgar parlance: a stripper!

But I’m not a stripper!

At these prices — I’m an ecdysiast!

And if you’re real good

I’ll make you feel good

I want your spirit to climb

Let me entertain you

And well have a real good time, yes, sir!

We’ll have

A real good time!