Use Your Imagination by Cole Porter from the 1950 Musical film "Out Of This World", Piano Cover

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Cole Porter
From "Out of This World" - 1950
Use your imagination;
Just take this motto for your theme,
And soon every night
Will be crowded with delight,
And every day will be a dream!
"Use your imagination,
You'll see such winders if you do.
Around you there lies
Pure enchantment in disguise
And endless joys you never knew!
Behind ev'ry cloud there's a so lovely star,
Behind ev'ry star there's a lovelier one by far!
So use your imagination;
Just take this motto for your theme,
And soon you will dance
On the road to sweet romance,
And ev'ry day will be a dream!"
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 - October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film.
Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, Porter defied his grandfather's wishes and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs. After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 1930s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, Kiss Me, Kate. It won the first Tony Award for Best Musical.
Porter's other musicals include Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady, Anything Goes, Can-Can and Silk Stockings. His numerous hit songs include "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "You're the Top". He also composed scores for films from the 1930s to the 1950s, including Born to Dance (1936), which featured the song "You'd Be So Easy to Love"; Rosalie (1937), which featured "In the Still of the Night"; High Society (1956), which included "True Love"; and Les Girls (1957).
Out of This World is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and the book by Dwight Taylor and Reginald Lawrence. The show, an adaptation of Plautus' comedy Amphitryon, first opened on Broadway in 1950.
The Roman gods Mercury and Jupiter are in search of some entertainment of the human kind. The focus of their attention is a young bride, Helen and her husband, Art. Mercury joins the two on their trip to Athens, intending to put himself between the blushing newlyweds. While the men are busy chasing Helen, the goddess Juno (Jupiter's wife) is playing games of her own with inept gangster Nikki as her reluctant sidekick.
Songs
Act 1
I Jupiter, I Rex - Jupiter and Ensemble
Use Your Imagination - Mercury and Helen
Hail, Hail, Hail - Vulcania, Mercury and Ensemble
I Got Beauty - Juno and Ensemble
Maiden Fair - Ensemble
Where, Oh, Where - Chloe and Dancer Boys and Girls
I Am Loved - Helen
They Couldn't Compare to You - Mercury, Singing Girls and Dancing Girls
What Do You Think About Men? - Helen, Chloe and Juno
Dance - Night
I Sleep Easier Now - Juno
Ballet - Night, Strephon and Dancing Ensemble
Act 2
Climb Up the Mountain - Juno, Niki Skolianos and Company
No Lover for Me - Helen
Cherry Pies Ought to Be You - Mercury, Chloe, Juno and Niki Skolianos
I Am Loved (Reprise) - Helen
Hark to the Song of the Night - Jupiter
Dance - Strephon, Chloe and Ensemble
Nobody's Chasing Me - Juno
Dance - Ensemble
Use Your Imagination (Reprise) - Entire Company
Productions
Out of This World began pre-Broadway tryouts on November 4, 1950 at the Shubert Theatre, Philadelphia, and then moved to the Shubert Theatre, Boston on November 28, 1950.[1] The musical opened on Broadway at the New Century Theatre on December 21, 1950 and closed on May 5, 1951 after 157 performances. Staging was by Agnes De Mille, additional direction by George Abbott and choreography was by Hanya Holm. The cast featured George Gaynes as Jupiter, Charlotte Greenwood as Juno, Priscilla Gillette as Helen, David Burns as Nikki, William Eythe as Art O'Malley, and William Redfield as Mercury.
In the role of Juno, eccentric dancer Charlotte Greenwood's hit comic numbers were "Nobody's Chasing Me", "Climb Up The Mountain", and "I Sleep Easier Now". Brooks Atkinson described Greenwood's performance as "warmhearted clowning"; she "throws her head back when she plunges into a song. She plays a few tricks with a collapsible camera tripod. She moves around the stage in a sort of grotesque crouch. And once, in the happiest moment of the show, she swings those long legs in a cartwheel-motion that delighted New Yorkers after the first World War, and delights New Yorkers of today."