GAMRIF SUMMIT EXCERPT PERFORMANCE

LIFELINE intertwines the story of Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming’s 1928 world-changing discovery of penicillin with the story of Jess, a present-day doctor, whose childhood sweetheart, Aaron, is fighting for his life having developed an an AMR infection after a routine cancer operation. Almost 100 years after the discovery, will Fleming’s miracle cure still work effectively enough to save Aaron’s life?

Today’s concert-style performance will feature excerpts from songs in the show performed by members of the 2024 Off-Broadway cast.

EXCERPT FROM

CLIMB ON

We start in the modern day. We meet three friends – Aaron, a musician, Jess, a medic, and Julian, a politician’s assistant. Aaron and Jess are childhood sweethearts, but broke up a year ago when Aaron left for a round-the-world tour. However, a cancer scare has brought him home unexpectedly. The three friends are in the cafe of the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh celebrating the good news that Aaron is now cancer free following a successful operation on his colon.

AARON
CANTEEN TEA
WEAK AND ANAEMIC
A FINE REMEDY
BUT I DECREE
IT IS A TASTE I WILL SAVOUR
IT’S CHAMPAGNE TO ME
SO HERE’S TO THE OLD DAYS
THE GROWING UP GOLD DAYS
TO BIKE-RIDES AND HAY-BALES AND DENS
HERE’S TO THE BAND,
ENDLESS PRACTICE AND PLANS
TO DREAMS OF THE BIG-TIME
THAT GAVE US THE COURAGE TO

AARON, JESS & JULIAN
CLIMB ON, HIGHER
THROUGH MISSTEPS AND WAKE-UPS,
THROUGH HEARTACHE AND BREAK-UPS WE
CLIMB ON, HIGHER
THROUGH LOSING AND WINNING
UNTIL WE ARE IN THE ALL CLEAR

AARON
NO BIGGER REALITY CHECK
THAN MORTALITY

AARON & JESS
ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS
THEY MAKE ME REMEMBER
HOW SIMPLE MY LIFE USED TO BE
SO IS THIS THE WAKE UP,
THE GAME CHANGING SHAKE-UP FOR ME?

JULIAN
CLIMB ON, HIGHER
THROUGH MISSTEPS AND WAKE-UPS,
THROUGH HEARTACHE AND BREAK-UPS WE

AARON, JESS & JULIAN
CLIMB ON, HIGHER
THROUGH LOSING AND WINNING
UNTIL WE ARE IN THE ALL CLEAR

CLIMB ON, HIGHER…

EXCERPT FROM

WALTZ WITH ME

We now meet Alexander Fleming and a Greek microbiologist named Amalia Voureka. The year is 1949, Fleming is struggling after the death of his wife and tired of the relentless fame Penicillin has brought. However, he and his colleague Amalia have grown closer in recent weeks, particularly since he has started giving her a lift home after work.

FLEMING
CIRCLING ALL AROUND
AN ENDLESS WHIRLWIND
FLASHING LIGHTS, INTRUSIVE SOUNDS
A MERRY DANCE THAT KEEPS
SPINNING ME ROUND AND ROUND
CROWDS, THEY FLOCK TO SEE
THIS PENICILLIN MYTH I HAVE COME TO BE
BUT UNDERNEATH
THERE’S JUST A SHY OLD MAN WHO’S LONELY

AMALIA
WALTZ WITH ME
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND BREATHE
GET LOST IN A BRIEF ETERNITY
FREE FROM THE CROWDS
THE HANDSHAKES, THE BOWS
A MOMENT FOR JUST YOU AND ME
WALTZ WITH ME
SET YOUR MIND AT EASE,
DON’T THINK OF TOMORROW,
LET IT BE,
PEACEFUL AND CALM,
WE TURN ARM IN ARM
THE DANCE COULD BE OURS,
DON’T YOU SEE?

FLEMING
WHEN I WAS JUST A BOY
THERE WAS A DANCE
FOR ALL THE VILLAGE TO ENJOY
MIDSUMMER’S EVE,
WHEN THE LIGHT NEVER TRULY LEAVES
SITTING NEAR THE DOOR
WAS THIS OLD MAN
WHOSE WIFE HAD PASSED
SOME YEARS BEFORE
THE LAST WALTZ WAS CALLED
AND THERE WAS NO ONE
TO DANCE WITH HIM

AMALIA
WALTZ WITH ME
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND BREATHE
GET LOST IN A BRIEF ETERNITY
YOUR PARTNER FOR NOW
IF YOU WILL ALLOW
A MOMENT FOR JUST YOU AND ME
WALTZ WITH ME
SET YOUR MIND AT EASE,
DON’T THINK OF TOMORROW,
LET IT BE,
PEACEFUL AND CALM,
WE TURN ARM IN ARM
THE DANCE COULD BE OURS,
DON’T YOU SEE?

EXCERPT FROM

Mr X, You’re Next

Back to the present now, Jess is struggling with the relentless pressures of being a junior doctor. She is faced with patients demanding antibiotics.

PATIENT 1
SINUSITIS

MR X
TONSILLITIS

PATIENT 2
CONJUNCTIVITIS

PATIENT 3
CYSTITIS

JESS
MR X, YOU ARE NEXT
COME IN, I WILL INSPECT
MR X
I’VE BARELY SLEPT THIS WEEK
ACHING FROM HEAD TO FEET
JESS
SOUNDS LIKE THE FLU,
HERE IS WHAT YOU SHOULD DO
BED REST AND DRINK
LOTS OF FLUIDS
EAT HEALTHY FOODS,
TAKE YOUR PAIN-KILLERS TOO,
THAT IS ALL YOU CAN DO,
YOU TAKE CARE,
GET BETTER SOON

JESS
No matter what we say. All they ever reply is:

JESS, CHORUS & ENSEMBLE
WE WANT CURES, WE WANT REMEDIES,
WE NEED WONDER DRUGS FOR THE LIFE WE LEAD.
THEY HELP US GET STRONGER,
THEY LET US WORK LONGER,
WE NEED THEM DOCTOR PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!
WITH ONE TESTIMONIAL FROM YOU, THE CUSTODIAL
ANTIMICROBIAL DRUG TRUSTEE,
WE WILL ALL GET MUCH BETTER;
FACE OUR DAILY PRESSURES
WITH CONFIDENCE AND EASE.

(During the final line JESS succumbs to the pressure and tears off a prescription from her pad, handing it to Mr X, who promptly exits.)

JESS
I take a minute to splash water on my face. I’m burning up with this pressure.
No time to think. Freeing up beds has to be our priority. I hand out another prescription as a quick fix.
Is this really what I trained for? Why I became a doctor?

EXCERPT FROM

The Man Behind the Mould

Amalia has called upon one of Fleming’s oldest friends and colleagues, Merlin Pryce; the very Merlin Pryce in fact who was with Fleming when he made his famous discovery in 1928. Pryce and Amalia are helping Fleming – a fundamentally shy man despite his fame – with how to cope with the press and media.

PRYCE
THERE’S A REASON WHY BILL SHAKESPEARE
WROTE OF HAMLET AND MACBETH
AND WHY RABBIE BURNS CHOSE TAM AND THAT WEE MOUSE
I WON’T TIPTOE ROUND THE PROBLEM, ALEC,
DON’T TAKE THIS TO HEART,
BUT I’M CONCERNED YOU SOMETIMES COME ACROSS
TO BE A BORING FART!

YOU NEED ANECDOTE, NOT JARGON,
THAT WILL CAPTURE AND WILL SEIZE US,
THINK OF CICERO OR LINCOLN,
THINK OF GHANDI, THINK OF JESUS!
IT IS RHETORIC AND STORIES
THAT GET PEOPLE TO BELIEVE US,
NOT DIFFERENTIAL INHIBITION BY THE PENICILLIUM GENUS
IT’S THE DOCTOR AND THE SOLDIER PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO SEE
THE CHARMING SCOT WHO HAPPENED ON A BIG DISCOVERY
DON’T BE SHY, DON’T WITHHOLD
NEED NOT BE QUITE AS CONTROLLED
AND BEHOLD, THE HONEST MAN BEHIND THE MOULD!

AMALIA
The man behind the Mould.. See, it’s always about men isn’t it?

PRYCE
My dear, I haven’t offended you have I?

AMALIA
I CAME FIRST OF FORTY-FIVE TO GAIN THIS ESTEEMED BURSARY –
THAT WAS AFTER FASCIST PRISON TIME FOR FIGHTING TO BE FREE
BATTLING TYRANNY, PART OF THE GREEK RESISTANCE – THAT WAS ME
SO NO, I’M NOT OFFENDED BY SOME LIGHT MISOGYNY

BUT IF IT WASN’T FOR US WOMEN WHO YOU TRY TO KEEP AT HOME,
YOU WOULDN’T KNOW YOUR DNA FROM YOUR OWN XY CHROMOSOMES,
LOOK TO NIGHTINGALE OR PANKHURST OR AMELIA EARHART
KATHARINE HEPBURN, MARIE CURIE

PRYCE
NONE OF WHOM ARE BORING FARTS

FLEMING
What’s happening here?

PRYCE
Just trying to help.

PRYCE & AMALIA
IT’S THE DOCTOR AND THE SOLDIER PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO SEE
THE CHARMING SCOT WHO HAPPENED ON A BIG DISCOVERY
DON’T BE SHY, DON’T WITHHOLD
NEED NOT BE QUITE AS CONTROLLED
AND BEHOLD, THE HONEST MAN BEHIND THE MOULD!

FLEMING
I AM TROUBLED THAT YOU THINK OF INDIGESTION WHEN I SPEAK
BUT I SUPPOSE THERE IS SOME MERIT IN THIS PERSONAL TECHNIQUE
THIS GREEK RESISTANCE, WELSH PERSISTENCE IS COMPELLING, I MUST SAY
SO I WILL TRY TO OPEN UP, GIVE IT MORE OF THE SCOTTISH WAY

FLEMING, PRYCE & AMALIA
IT’S THE DOCTOR AND THE SOLDIER PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO SEE
THE CHARMING SCOT WHO HAPPENED ON A BIG DISCOVERY
DON’T BE SHY, DON’T WITHHOLD
NEED NOT BE QUITE AS CONTROLLED
AND BEHOLD, THE HONEST MAN BEHIND THE MOULD!

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Tip the odds in our favour

Fleming and Pryce are remembering events from 1942 when the latest copy of the Lancet medical journal brought some welcome news about Fleming’s “old mould”.

PRYCE
THEY READ YOUR OLD PAPER FROM MAY TWENTY-NINE,
FOUND THE CULTURE YOU SENT TO A COLLEAGUE NEARBY,
THEY CONFIRMED YOUR CONCLUSIONS,
DEVISED A NEW SLANT,
AND RECEIVED FROM THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION –
A GRANT!

AFTER MONTHS OF REFINEMENT,
A PAINSTAKING ASSIGNMENT,
A CRUCIAL NEW BREAKTHROUGH AT LAST WOULD UNFOLD.
WITH SUCCESS IN THEIR SIGHTS,
THEY INFECTED WHITE MICE,
AND THEN SAVED THEM – DISEASES CONTROLLED
THEY HAD PURIFIED YOUR OLD MOULD!

HERE IS SOME GOOD LUCK, IN PLAIN BLACK AND WHITE
YOUR VISION, YOUR DREAM IS REALISED; YOU WERE RIGHT!
AT LAST SOME REAL PROGRESS, THEY SOUND QUITE ASSURED
PENICILLIN, THE NEW LIFELINE,
THE NEW RED CROSS CURE

(PRYCE and FLEMING arrive in Oxford and are welcomed by FLOREY, CHAIN and HEATLEY.)

FLEMING, PRYCE & CHORUS
TIP THE ODDS IN OUR FAVOUR WITH THIS NEW LIFE-SAVER,
OUR INJURED AND WOUNDED WILL RISE UP AGAIN,
A NEW SECRET WEAPON SOON IN OUR POSSESSION
TO SAVE LIVES INSTEAD OF TAKE THEM.
TO ABSOLVE INSTEAD OF CONDEMN
AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF OUR FRIENDS

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Stay with me

Just after they admit their feelings for one another, Jess finds out that Aaron has been hiding the seriousness of his condition – he is battling a multi drug resistant infection.

JESS
I REMEMBER, OF COURSE I DO
BUT I’M SO SCARED OF WHAT’S AHEAD,
WHAT’S HAPPENING TO YOU
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN HERE, I FEEL IT TOO
BUT ODDS ARE AGAINST US, YET AGAIN,
HOPELESS IMPASSE, NO WAY THROUGH

I’M PULLED RIGHT BACK TO HOW IT WAS
A YEAR AGO, REPEAT
NO TIME FOR BROKEN HEARTS
WITH ENDLESS PATIENTS HERE TO TREAT
BUT NOW YOU’RE SO ILL AND BACK HERE
SO OUT THE BLUE,
SAYING I LOVE YOU.
YOU MUST PULL THROUGH

STAY WITH ME,
PLEASE STAY WITH ME,
I’M RIGHT HERE NEXT TO YOU.
STAY WITH ME,
PLEASE STAY WITH ME,
I LOVE YOU TOO.
STAY WITH ME,
PLEASE STAY WITH ME,
IT’S TRUE, OF COURSE I DO.
STAY WITH ME,
PLEASE STAY WITH ME
MY LOVE.
PLEASE STAY WITH ME
MY LOVE.

I’LL FALL INTO US.
YOU’RE RIGHT,
IT’S WRITTEN IN THE STARS
AND IN THE DUST.
I WILL BE THERE, DARLING.
FALL INTO US…

I WILL BE HERE NOW
I WILL BE STRONG
COME BACK TO ME TO SING OUR SONGS

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Private 6392

In 1914, Fleming and his comrades are celebrating his last day as a volunteer soldier in the London Scottish regiment. Fleming has been a member since he moved to London from rural Scotland 14 years ago and has many close friends in “H-company”. Despite not wanting to leave, he has made the difficult decision to prioritise his work in the bacteriology department at St. Mary’s Hospital in London who will soon be sent to northern France to set up a unit for the treatment of wound infections.

(The soldiers gather round to listen the Captain of H-Company toast Private Alexander Fleming on his final day as a volunteer soldier.)

CLOWES
SOLDIERS, FILL UP YOUR PINTS,
COME AND GATHER ROUND
WE TOAST PRIVATE FLEMING,
THE BEST SHOT IN TOWN

(General cries of good will; “Go on Alec”; clapping, cheers etc.)

HERE’S TO FOURTEEN YEARS SERVICE,
A VOLUNTEER TO COMMEND
YOU WILL BE AN H-COMPANY LAD ‘TIL THE END

(Cries of ‘hear hear’, more clapping etc. Fleming is jostled forwards by his colleagues.)

SOLDIERS, RAISE UP YOUR PINTS,
CHEERS THEM ‘TIL THEY SPILL
THIS MAN, HE IS PROOF OF H-COMPANY’S WILL
A HUMBLE GOOD NATURE, HARD-WORKING AND TRUE
THIS MESS HALL SALUTES PRIVATE 6392

CLOWES & SOLDIERS
PRIVATE 6392, THIS MESS HALL HONOURS YOU
PRIVATE 6392, THIS MESS HALL HONOURS YOU
etc.

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Best Of Us

After seeing many of his friends die in World War I, Fleming laments the loss of life to infection on the battlefield and vows to do something about it.

FLEMING
THE SMELL OF DEATH SURROUNDS
CONDEMNATION TO THE GROUND
SOLDIER BOYS WITH YEARS AHEAD
LIE CLINGING TO THEIR LIVES

I SHOULD LIE NEXT TO THEM
ONE FOR ALL, AND ALL FOR FRIENDS
YET HERE I AM – NO USE TO THEM
NO RIFLE, NO SYRINGE

STAND AND SALUTE,
THE FALLEN MEN, THE VOLUNTEERS,
THE NEW RECRUITS –
THE PRIVATES, CAPTAINS, BRIGADIERS
I PAY TRIBUTE,
TO LADS WHO FACED THEIR GREATEST FEARS
THOSE RESOLUTE,
THE BEST OF US THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.

JESS
STAY WITH ME
YOU’LL STAY WITH ME
I LOVE YOU TOO
STAY WITH ME
YOU’LL STAY WITH ME MY LOVE.

JESS
STAY WITH ME
YOU’LL STAY WITH ME
FOREVER, ME AND YOU
STAY WITH ME
YOU’LL STAY WITH ME
I LOVE YOU TOO
STAY WITH ME
YOU’LL STAY WITH ME
IT’S TRUE, OF COURSE I DO
STAY WITH ME
YOU’LL STAY WITH ME MY LOVE.

FLEMING
STAND AND SALUTE,
THE FALLEN MEN, THE VOLUNTEERS,
THE NEW RECRUITS –
THE PRIVATES, CAPTAINS, BRIGADIERS
I PAY TRIBUTE,
TO LADS WHO FACED THEIR GREATEST FEARS
THOSE RESOLUTE,
THE BEST OF US THROUGHOUT THE YEARS.

FLEMING
LUCK WILL NOT HELP HERE,
PROGRESS IS DENIED,
CHANCE IS A GAME OF WHEN NOT IF THEY DIE,

BUT THIS I WON’T ACCEPT,
THIS FATE I WILL DEFY

FLEMING & JESS
TIP THE ODDS IN OUR FAVOUR
THROW THEM A LIFELINE

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I’ve done all that I can

After Aaron’s death, Julian explains to Jess why he feels powerless to affect change, despite working in a position of influence.

JULIAN
A FISH FARMER IS STRUGGLING
HAS HUNGRY MOUTHS TO FEED
A FAMILY WITH SEVEN KIDS
RELYING ON HIS PROCEEDS
IN A RIVER FULL OF FILTH
HIS FISH CAN ONLY GROW AND BREED
IF HE DOSES THEM WITH DRUGS
WITHIN THEIR FEED

HE SELLS THE FISH AT MARKET IN THE LOCAL TOWN
THE PRICE KEEPS FALLING, DOWN AND DOWN
YOU CANNOT REALLY BLAME HIM,
BUT THE OUTCOME IS PROFOUND,
THE DRUGS ARE IN THE WATER, THE DRUGS ARE IN THE GROUND

A WOMAN, 9 MONTHS PREGNANT,
IN THE HOSPITAL DOWNSTREAM
THE BABY’S BREACH, SHE CAN’T PUSH HIM OUT
DON’T WORRY – THIS IS ROUTINE
THE C-SECTION GOES WELL
SHE’S GIVEN DRUGS TO GUARANTEE
AN INFECTION WON’T STOP HER RECOVERY

THE DRUGS DON’T WORK ‘COS THE BUGS HAVE LEARNT
FROM THE WATER ALL AROUND
THE MOTHER DIES, NOW SHE’S IN THE GROUND
THE SPIRAL OF RESISTANCE SPINNING ROUND AND ROUND
COS THE DRUGS ARE IN THE WATER, THE DRUGS ARE IN THE GROUND

WHAT D’YOU WANT ME TO DO?
WHAT D’YOU WANT ME TO SAY?
WITH EIGHT BILLION OF US ALL INVOLVED
STANDING IN THE WAY,
WHAT D’YOU WANT ME TO DO?
WHAT D’YOU WANT ME TO SAY?
YOU’VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND
IM SORRY, BUT I’VE DONE ALL THAT I CAN.

A DOCTOR IN A HOSPITAL
WITH PATIENTS ON THE FLOOR
IS BATTLING AN INFECTION
THAT IS RAGING ON ALL WARDS
HISTORY REPEATING
FROM JUST WEEKS AGO, NO MORE
BUT THE DRUGS AREN’T WORKING
LIKE THEY DID BEFORE

COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED WITH CLEAN WATER FROM A TAP
BUT THIS PLACE DON’T HAVE THINGS LIKE THAT
YOU CANNOT BLAME THE DOCTOR
BUT THE OUTCOME IS PROFOUND
THE DRUGS DON’T WORK,
HIS PATIENTS IN THE GROUND

A BEEF BURGER AT A FAMOUS CHAIN
IS SERVED UP WITH SOME FRIES
THE COW WAS REARED WITH DRUGS FROM BIRTH
TO FATTEN IT, HELP IT THRIVE
THE MEAT HAS BUGS, LIKE EVERYTHING,
HARMLESS TO YOU AND I
YOU STUFF IT DOWN, TASTES GOOD, YOU’RE FEELING FINE

WEEKS PASS BY, THEN YOU GET SICK,
HIGH FEVER YOU CAN’T SHAKE.
INFECTION SPREADS AND SEPSIS AWAKES
THE WORN-OUT DRUGS IN I-C-U
ARE HELPLESS WITH YOUR FATE
WHERE DID RESISTANCE COME FROM?
COULD IT BE SOMETHING YOU ATE?

IT IS COMING, THE WATER’S RUNNING
THE DRUGS ARE IN OUR CROPS AND MEAT, YET WE DO NOTHING,
RESISTANCE RISING,
THE BUGS SURVIVING, DIVIDING AND
THRIVING WITH ALL OF THE UNWITTING HELP
WE’RE PROVIDING, INVITING – NOT FIGHTING
AND ALL I CAN HEAR IS A VOICE IN MY HEAD
SHOUTING COWARD.
I’M SO SORRY.

THERE’S A DEEP-SEATED INEQUITY
BEHIND EVERY DOOR WORLDWIDE
THE RICH STAY RICH, THE POOR STAY POOR
WE’RE ALL SO GOOD AT REASONS TO DIVIDE:
FROM SKIN, TO WORSHIPPING,
TO LAND AND BORDERLINES,
BUT THIS MIGHT JUST BE WHERE ALL WORLDS COLLIDE

WE’RE TIRED OF HEALTHCARE TRAGEDIES
AND MASKS UPON OUR FACE
AND THE WORLD IT BURNS
BUT OUR CHANGE COMES TOO LATE
MEANWHILE THIS HIDDEN SPIRAL’S SPINNING ROUND AND ROUND
COS THE DRUGS ARE IN THE WATER,
THE DRUGS ARE IN THE GROUND
COS THE DRUGS ARE IN THE WATER,
THE DRUGS ARE IN THE GROUND

ICU DOCTOR
WHAT D’YOU WANT US TO DO?

MEDICS
WHAT D’YOU WANT US TO DO?

ICU DOCTOR
WHAT D’YOU WANT US TO SAY?

MEDICS
WHAT D’YOU WANT US TO SAY?

ICU DOCTOR
WITH EIGHT BILLION OF YOU ALL INVOLVED
STANDING IN THE WAY

ICU DOCTOR
WHAT D’YOU WANT US TO DO?

MEDICS
WHAT D’YOU WANT US TO DO?

ICU DOCTOR
WHAT D’YOU WANT US TO SAY?

MEDICS
WHAT D’YOU WANT US TO SAY?

ICU DOCTOR
YOU’VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND
(spoken)
I’m sorry but I’ve done all that I can.

EXCERPT FROM

Waltz with me (Reprise)

Fleming finally plucks up the courage to ask Amalia an important question.

FLEMING
Amalia Voureka, thelis na me pantrefteis?
(Translation: Will you marry me?)

AMALIA
You learnt Greek?

FLEMING
Your talents are rubbing off on me.

(She thinks)

Well? You have not answered my question.

AMALIA
On whether to marry you? Or to correct your pronunciation?

FLEMING
Both.

AMALIA
The pronunciation could use some work.
To the other, Yes.

FLEMING
WALTZ WITH ME
I FEEL TWENTY-THREE!
FROM THIS DAY FORTH I’M YOUR DEVOTEE,
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD,
UNTIL WE’RE BOTH OLD

FLEMING & AMALIA
A LIFETIME FOR JUST YOU AND ME

AMALIA
WALTZ WITH ME
LET YOUR MIND RUN FREE,
LET’S PLAN FOR TOMORROW,
WHAT COULD BE,

AARON
THERE’S A ROSE
THAT GROWS
IN NO MAN’S LAND
IT’S WONDERFUL
TO SEE
IT’S THE ONE RED ROSE
THE SOLDIER KNOWS
THE ROSE OF NO MAN’S LAND

AMALIA
WALTZ WITH ME
LET YOUR MIND RUN FREE,
LET’S PLAN FOR TOMORROW,
WHAT COULD BE,

FLEMING & AMALIA
CHERISHED, BESTOWED,
WE’LL BOTH ALWAYS KNOW
THE LAST DANCE IS FOR YOU AND ME

EXCERPT FROM

The Discovery / Act 1 Finale

As the two storylines collide, Fleming makes his discovery of penicillin just as Aaron’s condition takes a turn for the worse.

FLEMING
PENICILLIUM NOTATUM
ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTY
PURIFY IT, IT COULD BECOME
A NEW ANTI-PATHOGEN THERAPY

CHORUS
WE WANT CURES, WE WANT REMEDIES,
WE NEED WONDER DRUGS FOR THE LIFE WE LEAD.
THEY HELP US GET STRONGER,
THEY LET US WORK LONGER,
WE NEED THEM DOCTOR PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!

PRYCE, FLEMING, ENSEMBLE
TIP THE ODDS IN OUR FAVOUR
WITH THIS NEW LIFE-SAVER,
OUR INJURED AND WOUNDED
WILL RISE UP AGAIN
A NEW SECRET WEAPON
SOON IN OUR POSSESSION
TO SAVE LIVES INSTEAD OF TAKE THEM.

CHORUS
WE WANT CURES, WE WANT REMEDIES,
WE NEED WONDER DRUGS FOR THE LIFE WE LEAD.
THEY HELP US GET STRONGER,
THEY LET US WORK LONGER,
WE NEED THEM DOCTOR PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!

CHORUS
TIP THE ODDS…

MEDICS
WE WANT CURES…

AMALIA
WALTZ WITH ME…

FLEMING
PENICILLIUM NOTATUM…

JESS
STAY WITH ME…

FLEMING, PRYCE & ENSEMBLE
TIP THE ODDS IN OUR FAVOUR WITH THIS NEW LIFE-SAVER,

COMPANY
OUR INJURED AND WOUNDED WILL RISE UP AGAIN
A NEW SECRET WEAPON SOON IN OUR POSSESSION
TO SAVE LIVES INSTEAD OF TAKE THEM.

FLEMING
TO ABSOLVE INSTEAD OF CONDEMN,

COMPANY
AND PROTECT THE LIVES OF OUR FRIENDS.