Use What You Got - The Life

Here we have Tim Dal Cortivo and friends performing "Use What You Got" from The Life for his graduating recital performed on campus at the Australian Institute of Music (AIM)
Use What You Got - Cy Coleman & Ira Gasman
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The Life is a musical with a book by David Newman, Ira Gasman and Cy Coleman, music by Coleman, and lyrics by Gasman.
Based on an original idea by Gasman, the show explores the underbelly of Times Square's 42nd Street, inhabited by pimps and prostitutes, druggies and dealers, and runaways and street people in the era prior to its Disneyfication.
The show was first produced at the off-Broadway Westbeth Theatre, running from July 30, 1990 to August 16, 1990. Joe Layton directed and choreographed, with a cast that featured Chuck Cooper, Lillias White, and Mamie Duncan-Gibbs.
The Broadway production, directed by Michael Blakemore, opened on April 26, 1997 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it closed on June 7, 1998 after for 466 performances and 21 previews. Among a large cast were Pamela Isaacs, Chuck Cooper, Lillias White, and Sam Harris, winner of the first Star Search television competition in 1984. Choreography was by Joey McKneely, scenic design by Robin Wagner, costume design by Martin Pakledinaz, and lighting design by Richard Pilbrow.
White and Cooper both won Tony awards for their performances in this production.
The Life depicts the pulsating life on the Times Square streets in the 1980s, where everything had a price, especially sex-the garish topless bars, the transvestite joints, the hookers who worked the side walks at the bidding of their pimps ("Check It Out!").
Jojo, an opportunistic, conniving white hustler in the thick of the action, has a bare knuckled plan for feeding his ambition ("Use What You Got"). But among these unsavoury characters there are appealing people who have been caught in the web of these sordid surroundings. Sonja, a veteran hooker who has seen better days, befriends Queen who is on the street because her man, Fleetwood, a displaced Vietnam veteran, needs her support. She has saved her money and on this day plans to get away with Fleetwood and leave the life for good, enjoying, with Sonja ("A Lovely Day to Get Out of Jail"). Returning to her hotel room, Queen discovers that Fleetwood has spent half of her savings to pay off his drug debts and feed his habit.

[@tlctaps]

Wow! What chops Mr. Dal Cortivo has! Great number! Bravo everyone!

[@schwanny]

VERY well done!!

[@jdhennis1217]

When you're a hustler there is one thing you should know
You have to hustle every day
When you're a hustler there's no time to take it slow
Gather ye suckers while ye may
Monday you're hot
Tuesday you're not
And that's the reason why they say
You gotta use what got
To get what you want
Before what you got is gone
You gotta reach for that ring
While you're on that ride
How long does that ride go on?
You gotta learn every dance
Return every glance
While you have the chance to score
You gotta use what you got (use)
To get what you want (to get what you want)
Before you ain't got no more (no more, no more)
Your clock starts running on the day that you are born
It just keeps tick-tick-ticking on
There's only so much time to blow your little horn
Before your time has come and gone
Wednesday you're new (Wednesday you're new)
Thursday you're through (Thursday you're through)
It happens sooner than you know (it happens sooner than you know)
That gravy train gets mighty slow (that gravy train gets mighty slow)
So as I told you (a moment ago)
You gotta think number one (number one)
Be loyal to none (none)
If you want your sun to shine
You gotta pick up a knack (pick a knack)
To stab in the back (the back)
As long as the back ain't mine
You gotta use every friend
As a means to an end
Ain't that what a friend is for?
You gotta use what you got use
To get what you want (to get what you want)
So take my advice
From this moment on
Remember to use what you got (remember to use what you got)
To get everything that you want (to get everything that you want)
Before what you got
Use what you got, to get what you want
Use what you got, to get what you want
Before what you got (before what you got is gone)
What you got is gone