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As alternate to Kristin Chenoweth in the 2025 Broadway musical "The Queen of Versailles," Sherie Rene Scott got to play Jackie Siegel for six performances during the brief run. Lyrics below:
"Because We Can"
[JACKIE]
We didn't set out to build the biggest home in America
We just want the home of our dreams
And thе house we're in now, although it's sweet
It's only likе twenty-six thousand square feet
So we're just bursting at the seams
We didn't know we would need the biggest home in America
That was never part of our plan;
But everyone has needs to be filled
Add 'em all up and we've got to build
The biggest home in America
Because we can!
And we want the paneling looking fit for the Queen and King
We just put the gold leaf out for bids
And that hallway there, that's what we'll use to the family wing, so I don't lose
One of my six- no, seven- kids
[JACKIE, spoken]
I always count the twins as one
[JACKIE]
And down on the floor below, that's where the spa and pool will go
Two football fields is the span
Stained glass on the roof and over the door
We want to have the very best for
The biggest home in America
Because we can!
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"Caviar Dreams"
[JACKIE]
Here lies Jackie Mallery
Minimum-wage salary
With a tiny life and great, big dreams
She has no clue how to achieve
Growing up in a town called Endwell
Where the only way things end well
Is if you find a way
To leave
Tonight, my friends'll all be hanging at the Oakdale Mall
Where time moves slower than the Susquehanna
It's just another Friday evening in what you could call
Our slice of lower-middle-class Americana
But where I wanna be seems farther than those distant stars
Far from those auto lots, chain restaurants, and poolroom bars
Out where another kind of lifestyle gleams
With champagne wishes and caviar dreams
In their humongous, fancy houses up on Hilltop Road
There's people living what we call "the high life"
While I'm just sitting here and feeling like I might explode
Before I get to make that "high life" my life
And there's this ticking here inside of me, a clock or bomb
Or just a warning that I shouldn't turn into my mom
Still remembering as she does the dishes
Her caviar dreams and champagne wishes.