You're the Top (Anything Goes 1987 Revival)

Patti Lupone and Howard McGillin sing "Youre the Top in the 1987 Broadway Revival of Anything Goes by Cole Porter.

[RENO]
Billy, where's the old Crocker confidence? You think he's got one tiny fraction of your brains, your looks, your...your...

At words poetic, I'm so pathetic
That I always have found it best,
Instead of getting 'em off my chest,
To let 'em rest unexpressed,
I hate parading my serenading
As I'll probably miss a bar,
But if this ditty is not so pretty
Att least it'll tell you
How great you are.

You're the top!
You're the Colosseum.
You're the top!
You're the Louvre Museum.
You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss
You're a Bendel bonnet,
A Shakespeare sonnet,
You're Mickey Mouse.
You're the Nile,
You're the Tower of Pisa,
You're the smile on the Mona Lisa
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop,
But if, baby, I'm the bottom you're the top!

[BILLY]
Your words poetic are not pathetic.
On the other hand, babe, you shine,
And I can feel after every line
A thrill divine
Down my spine.
Now gifted humans like Vincent Youmans
Might think that your song is bad,
But I got a notion
I'll second the motion
And this is what I'm going to add;

You're the top!
You're Mahatma Gandhi.
You're the top!
You're Napoleon Brandy.
You're the purple light
Of a summer night in Spain,
You're the National Gallery
You're Garbo's salary,
You're cellophane.
You're sublime,
You're turkey dinner,
You're the time, the time of the Derby winner
I'm a toy balloon that is fated soon to pop
But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
You're the top!

[RENO]
You're the top!
You're an arrow collar
You're the top!
You're a Coolidge dollar,
You're the nimble tread
Of the feet of Fred Astaire,
You're an O'Neill drama,

[BILLY]
You're Whistler's mama,

[RENO]
You're camembert.

[BILLY]
You're a rose,
You're Inferno's Dante,

[RENO]
You're the nose
On the great Durante.
I'm just in a way,
As the French would say, "de trop".
But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
You're the top!

[BILLY]
You're the top!
You're a dance in Bali.
You're the top!
You're a hot tamale.
You're an angel, you,
Simply too, too, too diveen,
You're a Boticcelli,

[RENO]
You're Keats,

[BILLY]
You're Shelly,

[RENO]
You're Ovaltine.

[BILLY]
You're a boon,
You're the dam at Boulder,
You're the moon,
Over Mae West's shoulder,
I'm the nominee of the G.O.P.

[RENO]
Or GOP!

[BILLY]
But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
You're the top!

[RENO]
You're the top!
You're a Waldorf salad.
You're the top!
You're a Berlin ballad.
You're the boats that glide
On the sleepy Zuider Zee,
You're an old Dutch master,

[BILLY]
You're Lady Astor,

[RENO]
You're broccoli.
You're romance,
You're the steppes of Russia,
You're the pants on a Roxy usher,
I'm a broken doll, a fol-de-rol, a blop,

[BOTH]
But if, baby, I'm the bottom,
You're the top!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• you're
• the
• top
• anything
• goes
• patti
• lupone
• howard
• mcgillin
• cole
• porter
• musical
• musicals
• broadway

[wartzki]

Fantastic, I can't believe that this was written over 50 years ago and we are still listening to and enjoying the music and it is being performed by groups around the world - Cole Porter what a great writer !!!

[Operalover12002]

I like this hilarious melody! It gives me lots of energy and comfort.Good musicals last forever. Thanks for uploading this treasure, which deserves the title of a masterpiece.

[JorgeMitchellCovers]

Sutton Foster = Cute

Patti LuPone = HOLY SHITTTT!!

[JorgeMitchellCovers]

LuPone<<<Foster

[kerryincolumbus]

@cfronck ... AMEN to THAT !! Sutton Foster's sound is maybe a bit brighter than Patti LuPone's... but the power behind LaPone's voice just cannot be matched by anyone except for maybe the Great Ethel Merman herself!

[NYChica23]

@Operalover12002 Agreed...this song is good for getting me in a great mood ♥♥

[ztslovebird]

"You're Mickey Mouse" - written in the early 1930s, before Mickey had made his color debut (he existed by this time, just not in color for another year or so).

[tsquaredification]

Great!

[tuggymonster1]

@wartzki somehow, it still hasn't toured the 'states and gone to Spokane where I can see it

[memememememe65]

Really? Are you really going to criticize Patti LuPone? That's just not right.

[Scott89119]

"You're the purple light of a summer night in Spain." Wow. Porter was a genius.

[rosebud961]

doing this @school this fall- gonna b AWESOME!!