The FRANKENSTEIN World Premiere Recording features all of the essential and most memorable songs and scenes from the New York production.

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ACT ONE

1. PRELUDE

2. A GOLDEN AGE

3. FIND YOUR WAY HOME/
         GOLDEN AGE Pt. 2

4. AMEN

5. BIRTH TO MY CREATION

6. 1:15 A.M.

7. DEAR VICTOR/BURN THE
         LABORATORY

8. THE HANDS OF TIME

9. YOUR FATHER'S EYES

10. THE CREATURE'S TALE Part 1

11. THE WAKING NIGHTMARE

12. THE CREATURE'S TALE Part 2

13. THE MUSIC OF LOVE

14. THE CREATURE'S TALE Part 3

15. WHY?

16. THE PROPOSITION

ACT TWO

17. A HAPPIER DAY

18. THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

19. ANOTHER LIKE HIM

20. THE WORKINGS OF THE HEART

21. AN ANGEL'S EMBRACE

22. THE WORKINGS OF THE HEART
        Reprise

23. THESE HANDS

24. THE CHASE

25. THE COMING OF THE DAWN

26. AMEN Reprise

TRACK 4: AMEN

PROFESSOR #1: Frankenstein, we find your ideas shocking, dangerous, and an affront to all that is moral and decent.

PROFESSOR #2: Only a fool or a heretic would dare trifle with life and death as you propose.

PROFESSOR #3: Your obsession with discredited charlatans and their dubious science is pure folly.

PROFESSOR #4: The University will not stand for these outlandish and unauthorized experiments of yours.

PROFESSOR #5: It is complete madness!

ALL: It is... MADNESS... FOLLY... INSANITY!

PROFESSOR #1: The dead have nothing to say to you.

CONDEMNED MAN:

I CURSE THE DAY THAT I WAS BORN
INTO A WORLD SO BLACK WITH HATE
I'LL GLADLY LEAVE THIS LIFE OF SCORN
AND SEEK MY PEACE BEFORE THE
LIGHT OF HEAVEN'S GATE

I HAVE MY SINS LIKE ANY MAN
BUT NONE MORE DARK THAN YOURS
IF IT IS I YOU CHOOSE TO DAMN
INNOCENT BLOOD WILL STAIN YOUR HANDS FOREVER MORE

EXECUTIONER: For crimes against the people the magistrate of Ingolstadt hereby sentences you to be hanged by the neck until dead, this sixteenth
day of September, Seventeen Hundred and...

MOB:

YOUR KIND HAS NO PLACE BUT THE GRAVE
NOT EVEN A SOUL THAT CAN BE SAVED
SOON YOU WILL KNOW ETERNAL PAIN

CONDEMNED MAN:

YOUR KIND HAS NO PLACE BUT THE GRAVE
NOT EVEN A SOUL THAT CAN BE SAVED
SOON YOU WILL KNOW ETERNAL PAIN
WHO DARES TO ACT AS GOD?

MOB: NO MAN WOULD DARE TO ACT AS GOD!

VICTOR:

ANOTHER SOUL... ANOTHER LIGHT
ANOTHER FLAME EXTINGUISHED
ONE MOMENT HERE, AND THEN IT'S GONE
A HEART IS BEATING, THEN IS DONE
THE DIFFERENCE BARELY IS DISTINGUISHED

THE ANCIENT RIDDLE... WHAT THEN IS LIFE?
WHAT IS IT'S FLEETING ESSENCE?
THE GREATEST MINDS HAVE SOUGHT THE KEY
THAT COULD UNLOCK THIS MYSTERY
AND I ALONE POSSESS IT

WHAT I HAVE FOUND WAS THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE
AND ONLY SPOKEN OF IN FEAR
BUT IF I SHOW THEM THE IMPOSSIBLE --
CREATE A LIFE -- THEN ALL MUST HEAR!

MOB: LET GOD'S WILL BE DONE

VICTOR: THE GAUNTLET WAITS... IT CALLS TO ME
CRYING DESTINY'S DEMANDS

MOB: MAKE HIM PAY!

VICTOR: THE VERY FATE OF ALL MANKIND...

MOB: FINISH WHAT'S BEGUN!

VICTOR: RESTS IN THIS MIND... AND IN THESE HANDS

MOB: UPON THIS JUDGEMENT DAY

CONDEMNED MAN:

OH MY CREATOR, CLAIM ME NOW
GRANT TO ME THIS NIGHTMARE'S END
AND IF NO MAN SHALL MOURN FOR ME
I'LL TRUST IN YOU
A-MEN

EXECUTIONER: Who will tend to the remains?...I say... who claims
this body?!

VICTOR: I do.