I Have Dreamed

I have dreamed that your arms are lovely

I have dreamed what a joy you'll be

I have dreamed every word you'll whisper

When you're close, close to me

How you look in the glow of evening

I have dreamed and enjoyed the view

In these dreams I've loved you so

That by now I think I know

What it's like to be loved by you

I will love being loved by you

Just sing

Just sing

I have dreamed and enjoyed the view

As the roles changed

And I grew up

It was inevitable that I would start singing love songs

And then came Miss Saigon

A great love story

Kim falls passionately in love with Chris

I had never even been in a relationship

I didn't know what to do

So, I asked the women in the cast

I asked the straight men in the cast

I asked the gay men in the cast to tell me about love

And their answer was the same:

"You just know"

Not helpful

Next, I went to my mother:

"Mom, what is it like to be in love?"

"Hay, naku! When you're with him

You touch his face, he touches your face!"

So, here I was

Conservative

Catholic

Eighteen years old

Having to do these intense love scenes

With an actor ten years older than me

Finally, we're in tech

And Nicolas Hytner, our director, stops the rehearsal

At this point in the day, my leading man and I are on stage

In bed

Nic tells me to get out of the bed

And then he gets into the bed

And then he starts demonstrating

It was odd

But I finally understood

I learned about love watching Nic Hytner

Get it on with a straight man on stage at the Drury Lane

Saigon was life-changing

In so many ways

As we were developing the show, we went through

Countless drafts of so many different songs

One day, you'd fall in love with one song, and then the next day

It would be gone

There were so many beautiful songs

That never made it to the Broadway production

Here's one that not many people have heard