INTRO — SCHOOL COMES ALIVE] (Sounds of the city. Footsteps. Lockers. Music begins.) ENSEMBLE (spoken rhythm): New year. New halls. New names on the walls. New dreams. New fears. One more year. ⸻ STUDENT 1: Four years ago we walked through that door… STUDENT 2: Trying to figure out what we came here for… STUDENT 3: Now everybody’s saying— ALL: “Senior year!” ⸻ [VERSE 1 — FULL ENSEMBLE] ENSEMBLE: One last first day, One last start, One more chance to make our mark. One more hallway, One more song, One more place where we belong. Every moment, every name, Every memory we’re gonna make. We’ve been waiting all this time… Now the year is finally mine. ⸻ [CHARACTER INTRO SECTION] [Characters move through the school.] MAYA: I’ve been chasing every dream I wrote down, Every melody, every sound. I know exactly where I wanna go… So why am I scared to know? ⸻ JORDAN: I’m the guy who makes the whole room laugh, The one who turns the bad days into a photograph. If everybody’s smiling, everything’s okay… Right? (beat) Right? ⸻ AVA: Perfect grades, perfect plans, Everything exactly where I stand. But if I finally reach the top… What happens when the pressure doesn’t stop? ⸻ ELIJAH: They see the dancer. They see the dream. They see the future they made for me. But somewhere underneath the lights… I’m still trying to find my life. ⸻ RILEY: I’ve been watching from behind the frame, Recording everybody else’s name. Maybe this year I’ll finally see… The person everyone else sees. ⸻ [PRE-CHORUS — BUILD] ENSEMBLE: We’ve got the plans, We’ve got the dreams. We’ve got the impossible in between. The world is waiting outside these doors… But we’re not ready for what’s in store. ⸻ [CHORUS — HUGE] FULL COMPANY: 🎶 This is the last first day! The beginning of the end! The year we’ll never get again! So raise your voice, And take your place, Before the future changes everything! 🎶 ⸻ 🎶 This is the last first day! The moment we’ve been waiting for! One more year before we open the door… We don’t know where we’re going, But tonight we’re here to say: This is our time… This is our day! 🎶 ⸻ [DANCE BREAK / SCHOOL MONTAGE] [Big choreography section.] [Students:] [* running through hallways] [* dance rehearsals] [* auditions] [* classrooms] [* city streets] ENSEMBLE CHANTS: Senior year! One more time! Make it count! Make it mine! ⸻ [BRIDGE — QUIET MOMENT] [Music drops. Maya looks around the school.] MAYA: What if this is the last time… We all stand in the same room? ⸻ RILEY: What if these are the moments… We don’t know we’re gonna miss? ⸻ AVA: What if the things we’re rushing toward… Are the things we’re leaving? ⸻ [Everyone looks around.] ⸻ [FINAL CHORUS — BIGGEST MOMENT] FULL COMPANY: 🎶 This is the last first day! So hold onto every second! Every laugh, every mistake, every lesson! Because someday we’ll look back and say… We were here. We were alive. We had everything. We had this time. 🎶 ⸻ 🎶 This is the last first day! The start of everything we’ll become! The people we are, The people we’ll run from… And even when tomorrow comes our way… We’ll remember this day. 🎶 ⸻ [FINAL BUTTON] (Everyone freezes as the bell rings.) ENSEMBLE (soft): One last first day… (Music hits.) FULL COMPANY: WELCOME TO SENIOR YEAR! (Blackout.)
