Our First Big Break is the first song from The Star of Christmas. It is sung by Cavis, Millard, and Seymour.
Lyrics[]
Millward: I'll try.
Cavis: No! We're not gonna try, Millward! No, we're gonna do it this time! We've never had a chance like this, Millward. If your uncle didn't like you so much, he would have never let us use his theater. But if the show doesn't work, we'll be back to writing ad copies for Durling's Dental Wax. I'm not going back, Millward. No! This is our chance and we're gonna take it!
(As Cavis, Millward and Seymour enter the office on the side of the building, Cavis starts singing.)
Cavis: This is our big break, we may never get a chance again.
It's our big break so we're gonna do it right!
It's our big break, the peas are gonna dance again.
It's our big break, just like opening night!
Millward: So what's in the box?
Cavis: Ah, Millward! In this modern age it isn't enough just to have a great story anymore. Nooo! You need to show the audience something they've never seen before!
Millward: You've got a monkey that can yodel?!
Cavis: ...no, Millward. Electric lights! (opens box to reveal rows of light-bulbs) Spectacle's the name of the game!
Millward: Woah, cool! But doesn't the Royal Theater across town already have electric lights?
Cavis: Sure, on the building, that's easy! But we're gonna give 'em something that's never been done! We're gonna string electric lights on the scenery itself!
Millward: Wow! (to Seymour) Can you do that?
Seymour: It's a bit of a fire hazard, bu-
Cavis: (interrupting Seymour) But when you get your big break, sometimes you gotta take big chances! Right, Winston?
(Winston (Jean-Claude) is at his desk answering phone calls.)
Winston: That's right, Monsieur Appythart!
Cavis: Cause it’s our big break!
Seymour: So we're gonna take a chance again!
Cavis: It’s our big break cause we’re running out of time!
Millward: It's our big break!
Cavis: Yeah, they want extravagance, my friend!
Millward: It's our big break!
Cavis: Now go find that rhyme! (pushes Millward onto his writing desk) Say, Winston, any luck with the Crown Prince?
Winston: (to Cavis quietly) I'm talking to him right now. (to the prince on the phone) Hello, Prince!
Seymour: You mean the crown prince? Prince Frederick?!
Cavis: Indeed! Heir to the throne, and England's number 1 theater critic—a good word from him and the show's sure to succeed!
Seymour: Ah! So is he coming?
Cavis: Ah huh...he-he will be, as soon as he hears what a spectacle is it and that it stars his favorite actress, Miss Effie Pickering.
(Cavis gestures towards a picture of Effie Pickering (Madame Blueberry) on the wall.)
Seymour: Huh? Effie Pickering is in your musical?
Cavis: Well-hehehehe, not yet exactly.
Winston: But she is in his office.
Cavis and Seymour: What?
(Cavis and Seymour look towards Cavis' office door. We then cut to Effie Pickering waiting, as Cavis walks in.)
Cavis: (clears his throat) Miss Pickering, it's so good of you to come.
Effie Pickering: Let's cut to the chase, Monsieur Appletart.
Cavis: Eh-heh, Appythart.
Effie Pickering: Oui. You have 2 minutes to convince me I should be in this musical, "The Princess and the Plum."
(Chuckling, Cavis starts to stutter.)
Cavis: It's "The Princess and The Plumber." A plum is-is-is a fruit, while a plumber is a skilled laborer who works on, uh...pipes.
Effie Pickering: Ze clock is ticking!
Cavis: Oh, right! Well, it's a wonderful story about a sad princess and kindly plumber and the power of love.
(Effie Pickering starts to get bored.)
Cavis: You see, on the night before Christmas, the princess's sink backs up and so, of course, she calls the plumber. Now unbeknownst to the plumber, the princess's pipes are magic pipes!
(This sparks Effie Pickering's interest.)
Cavis: So as he's working them on Christmas Eve..
Winston: ...he is visited by the 4 fairy peas of Christmas!
(Four peas wearing flower hats with light-bulbs on them start dancing on a table.)
Fairy peas: Oh, we are the fairy peas!
We like to eat strawberry cheese.
Oh, we are the fairy peas of Christmas!
Millward: Oh, that's a good one.
Cavis: (continuing) And, and, the Sugar Plumber Fairy. (chuckles) Get it?
(Effie Pickering is not impressed by his joke.)
Winston: No sir, I don't really get it either, but it will have electric lights!!
Effie Pickering: Ze Royal Theater has electric lights too. (takes bite out of cookie)
Cavis: On the scenery?!
(This surprises Effie Pickering, as she does a spit take, slightly startling Cavis.)
Effie Pickering: Can you do zat?
Cavis: Oh yeah.
Effie Pickering: Well, will ze crown prince be there? Because you know zis show will fail without a good word from ze crown prince.
Cavis: Ohhoho, but of course! He'll be...uh. He'll definitely be......I'll be right back.
(Cavis dashes out of his office.)
Winston: Effie Pickering? Oh oui, she's your favorite, I know, oh oui, she would be...most definitely.....
(Cavis stares at him.)
Winston: Please hold!!
(Winston hops away his from desk hurriedly. Meanwhile, Millward is still working on a rhyme for "possum".)
Millward: Possum....fala-ssom...vela-ssom....toma-ssom...
(As Millward is coming up with rhymes, Cavis and Winston discuss whether or not the Prince and/or Effie Pickering are coming.)
Cavis: Tell me the prince is coming!
Winston: If Miss Pickering is in, ze Prince is in.
Cavis: Well, if the prince is in, I think Miss Pickering is in. So you get the prince, and then I'll get Miss Pickering!
Winston: Okay, and you get ze Pickering so that I can get ze prince!
Cavis: Right.
(Both go back to their workstations.)
Millward: Flo-ssom? Cro-ssom? Tra-la-la-la-la-ssom?
Cavis: (entering office) Oh ho, rest assured! Prince Frederick will definitely be there!
Effie Pickering: Hhmmmm... Very intresting, Monsieur Applecart. Let me give some thought.
Cavis: Appythart...So you’ll, uh...call me tomorrow?
Effie Pickering: Zat is enough. I will be in ze show, with ze lights and ze plums and ze peas.
Cavis: Oh ho ho ho, hey that's great!!
Winston: So you will come? Fantastic! You will not be sorry! (hangs up phone)
(As Cavis is walking her to the door, he is explaining why his play will change London, much to Miss Pickering's annoyance.)
Cavis: And the best thing is, that it's all for a good cause. You see, I've noticed that people in this town don't always seem to love each other well.
Millward: Sno-ssom?
Cavis: And it's my theory that a big spectacular show filled with beauty, and...and electric lights...well, it'll teach London how to love!!
Effie Pickering: I don't rehearse before 10 a.m. and I don't work with animals or children. Good day, Monsieur Appletoot.
(Effie Pickering leaves, as Cavis closes the door behind her.)
Cavis: Eh heh heh...eh, Appythart! We did it, she's in!! Ha ha! (to Winston) The Prince?
Winston: He's coming!
Millward: Schlo-ssam....cro-ssam......spita-ssom....
Cavis: This is great. Now, all we need is that rhyme!
Millward: Spossum...Dossum..b.........blossom!!!
(Cavis and Winston are elated.)
Cavis: Oh plumber, you dropped your possum.
Yes, princess, I think it is true!
I was hoping our love might blossom,
but the possum is eating my shoe!
Cavis: Gold, Millward! That's gold!
(Cavis and Millward start walking out of their office.)
Cavis: It's our first big break and if the show is really pretty...
Millward: It's our first big break!
Cavis: Then I do believe!..
Millward: Our first big break!
Cavis: That we're gonna show the city how to really love, starting Christmas Eve!
(Cavis and Millward look up at the front of the theater.)
Cavis: (gasps) It's going just as I hoped.
(As they're admiring the theater, Cavis backs up and runs into a pole with an advertisement for a Christmas pageant.)
Cavis: Wha? "All New Christmas Production. Saint Bart's Church. Christmas Eve?"
(end of Our First Big Break)
Fun Facts[]
Trivia[]
- In the original script, Cavis' "It's our big break. The peas are going to dance again." is originally as "It's our big break. The guys are going to dance again".
- There's some continuity errors in some scenes.
- In the beginning of the song, Cavis is shown wearing the bow-tie when he opens the door. When he opens the second door, the bow-tie stays on his white shirt when he hops over to the peas. However, after the song ends, the bow-tie disappears.
- On a similar note, Millward's mouth clips through the door panel.
- When the peas are shown dancing in circles, Seymour is not there until the door opens before Millward hops over to the entrance.
- In the beginning of the song, Cavis is shown wearing the bow-tie when he opens the door. When he opens the second door, the bow-tie stays on his white shirt when he hops over to the peas. However, after the song ends, the bow-tie disappears.
Goofs[]
- In the Brazilian (Audio News) dub of the video, when Cavis, Millward and Seymour are shown walking in the entrance, some animation errors are seen (which were fixed in later re-releases of the episode, despite the original Word Entertainment version still keeping in the animation errors):
- Millward's mouth is shown floating when the door opens.
- Cavis clips through the couch when he hops over to the peas.
- Seymour's goggles can be seen halfway on the screen (while Millward is shown hopping) before hopping over to Cavis.
- In the DVD version, Millward's mustache twitches while Cavis is shown hopping on the carpet. Tim explained in the commentary that this was an unfixable mistake.