Introduction/Melodrame by Original Off-Broadway Cast Lyrics

[Cast Member 1]
I can't pay the rent!

[Cast Member 2]
You must pay the rent!

[Cast Member 1]
I can't pay the rent!

[Cast Member 2]
You must pay the rent!

[Cast Member 3]
I'LL pay the rent!

[Cast Member 1]
(coos happily)

[Cast Member 4]
Now, we thought this timeless story would make the perfect musical
[Cast Member 2]
Or, better yet, FIVE musicals...

The lights come up to reveal... a farm. Beyond it, fields of golden corn stretch out to the horizon

It is Kansas in August

Ol' Abby sits on the porch, shucking corn. She listens as, offstage, we hear the voice of Big Willy...