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 5: BIRTH TO MY CREATION

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

VICTOR:

"MADNESS"... "FOLLY"... "INSANITY"
LITTLE MINDS HAVE BELITTED MY DREAM
BUT I... COULD I... MIGHT IT BE...?
THE GREATEST TRIUMPH MAN HAS EVER SEEN!

WITHIN THE FLESH A FORCE RESIDES
IF IT COULD ONLY BE CONTROLLED
IF SLEEPING SPARKS COULD SOMEHOW BE REVIVED
THINK OF THE AWE-INSPIRING POWER WE WOULD HOLD
I WANT THE WORLD TO SEE
WHERE BRAVE RESEARCH AND BOLD EXPERIMENT HAVE LED
ELECTRICITY'S THE KEY
TO RE-ANIMATE THE DEAD

I COULD SPARE THE WORLD THE ANGUISH
OF LOVED ONES TAKEN IN THEIR PRIME
THE GLORY OF A BRAVE, NEW WORLD
WILL ONE DAY SOON BE MINE

IMMORTAL SOUL... OUR INNER BEING...
DOES IT ENDURE OR DOES IT PERISH WITH THE FLESH?
IN MY HANDS I'LL HOLD THE ANSWER
AND THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH
MECCA OF SCIENCE -- GIVE ME THE MEANS
TO WALK WHERE NONE HAVE TROD
I'LL DISCOVER THE SECRETS BETWEEN
THE ALCHEMISTS AND GOD

VICTOR: It is nearly finished. I have fashioned him great in size to make easier the handiwork. He will be approximately eight feet in height and comprised of only the most finely-formed limbs and organs... exceedingly perfect. And if I succeed in breathing life into this new creation, might I not also -- one day -- be able to restore life to those claimed by death?
The time... 12:40 am, November 16th. The storm is nearing its zenith. The moment is at hand.

VICTOR:

PROMETHEUS DARED TO STEAL FIRE FROM GODS
TO LIFT MANKIND FROM SORROW
AND JUST AS THE MYTH - MY MISSION IS THIS:
TO WRITE A NEW TOMORROW

MY ENDLESS DAYS OF STUDY AND TOIL
ARE FINALLY NEAR FRUITION
THE WORLD WILL BE FOREVER CHANGED
BY HISTORY'S PHYSICIAN

LIFE EVERLASTING... REANIMATION...
A FLAWLESS NEW DESIGN
THE FINEST HUMAN IN ALL CREATION
BODY, BONE AND MIND

THE STORM WILL PEAK AND THE HEAVENS PART
TO FIRE MY PREPARATIONS
THE NEEDED SHOCK TO START HIS HEART
GIVING BIRTH TO MY CREATION

CHORUS:

LIFE EVERLASTING... REANIMATION...
A FLAWLESS NEW DESIGN
THE FINEST HUMAN IN ALL CREATION
BODY, BONE AND--

VICTOR:

DARKNESS IS DONE; A NEW DAY HAS COME
THE DAWN OF A NEW REVELATION
HERE IN THIS PLACE... HERE IN THIS TIME...
THE BIRTH OF MAN'S SALVATION!