When Someone Comes Into Your Life - Lon Hoyt, Original Broadway Cast of On Your Feet: The Musical

When someone comes into your life

Take a chance, my love

Forget all the pain that’s inside

Open up your heart

You’ll forget, as he’s touching your face

That I once held you in my embrace

It might even feel right

When you kiss him goodnight and not me If someone should hold out his hand

Make him yours, my love

Don’t know how long it may last

Oh, how fast love goes

You’ll forget me one day, don’t you know?

But your memory, I’ll never let go I will love you the same as I did that first day I held you

When someone comes into your life

Never close the door

What you’re looking for

Might be in your arms at last

Don’t run away

When someone comes into your life

When someone comes into your life

When someone comes into your life

Into your life

When someone comes into your life

Hold fast

Emilio, we have it!

We have the song!

What song?

The song!

Chico, rice and beans with hamburgers.

!

What is he talking about?

Okay, remember the encores in Holland?

How they went crazy for those comparsas

and I said we should write a song about them?

Well, we did.

Classical Cuban

rhythm.

No!

Yes, underneath it a funk bass line with a strong backbeat on the drums.

All of the lyrics in English!

Yes!

(Cut to Emilio pitching the song to a DJ.)

You don’t understand, we’re gonna mix all these sounds, we’re gonna mix Latino

with folk with pop…

(In his excitement, Emilio starts speaking faster and faster, becoming

unintelligible.)

Emilio!

Emilio!

Slow down, man.

What?

I don’t speak Spanish!

I’m talking to you in English!

(Audience laughs.)

Okay…

You play it one time--

They won’t dig it, man.

I don’t know.

Listen, listen, listen…

Trust me, right?

Emilio, I know my crowd!

You play this song once…

Piano, percussion…

People are gonna be screaming, people are gonna be--

Look, you know me, so don’t take this the wrong way.

It’s too Latin.

It’s too what?!

(Cut to Emilio pitching the song to Chris.)

You’re in promotion, Chris.

You’ve been behind this from the beginning!

What do we have to do?

I saw 6,000 people in Sweden dancing as if they were

born in Santiago de Cuba!

Sweden!

Do you know how white those people are?!

It was like-- it was like watching a room full of Q-tips bouncing all over the

place!

What can I do?

Get Phil on board!

Book it!

I don’t care how small!

Play that song!

You trust your audience, right?

Don’t bring the song to Phil, bring Phil to the song!