#SchumanShow Listen to the iconic Beauty and the Beast "Be Our Guest" as you've never heard it before! Watch now to see it come alive with adapted lyrics as our Schuman Show cast portray Western political leaders.

What do France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the rest of the West have in common? Shared values! (Or at least that's what they say...) In this Disney parody, French president Emmanuel Macron (as Lumiere!) takes center stage, leading the charge in unifying Western European leaders. It's not always easy to find consensus on shared values, but the United States' rupture from the rest of the West has made it much easier...

Here we feature European foreign affairs leader Kaja Kallas; German Chancellor Friedrich Merz; British PM Keir Starmer; Italian PM Giorgia Meloni; Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez; Canadian PM Mark Carney; and ousted Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán. Watch now!

✨ Written and performed by Barry McKeon, Hille Auvinen, Kelly Agathos, Paul Dallison, Rozana Radu, Tristan Barber, Daniel Mora, and Meyas Al Mansour. Director Gabriel Soler. Theatre coach & Choreographer Edward McMillan.

-- LYRICS:

My dear Europeans, It is with deepest pride and Frenchest pleasure that we welcome you tonight - And now we invite you to relax state aid, And sit back and enjoy As Manu (and Kaja!) proudly present Your future

Be the West, Oui the West Put our forces to the test No more NATO or US, cherie Trust me it’s for the best So marchons! Time to serve! And not for that orange perv Though his wife may be delicious He’s just one of Russia’s bitches

Europe needs more defence And moral leadership from France Just don’t protest while we do our nuclear tests Greenpeace let’s call a truce We’re rainbow just like you So be the west, be the west, oui the west!

Manu don’t forget me The EU HRVP With my borders I know more than most What Europe really needs Before military swag You need an EU hashtag Fuck “ReArm EU” it sucks ass How about “KajaHardass”

Unlike Thierry Breton I will actually get shit done They won’t fuck the Baltic states with me in charge And France we think you can Just pronounce it “Putin” (put*in) It just makes sense (Oui I’ll say yes to some Kallas sass In the West!) Yes it’s best, to have an Eesti-led west

This fighting talk is icky When your history is tricky And comes with vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (For those of you who don’t speak any German This word means owning all the shit you’ve done)

But the times they are a changing And our guilt is slowly fading At the World Cups now we even wave our flag I still find it weird how much you all loved Merkel But it’s Friedrich Merz these days we Can go military crazy!

Remember us, it’s the Brits Europe’s ex with benefits But fuck Brexit let’s instead fuck The special relationship

I’ll drink tea, stare at Trump Show you quite a cunning stunt Give you British titillation With risque alliteration

It’s buy one, get one free Here’s my best friend Meloni! Ciao ragazzi tutto bene Giorgia’s here I’ve got ideas, true, that Donald finds quite cool

OK who’s next Yes who’s, next! Pedro Sanchez! And his friends!

Si Joder! And my friend Yes it’s Mark Carney again Now that Justin’s gone there’s no doubt who’s the sexiest PM We both like saying eh Just in slightly different ways

Let’s all sing about our values Hungary doesn’t really share those Let’s clear house, 3,2,1 The West says “Fuck off Orban!”

Now we’ll never ever disagree again! With a consensus base We’ll say OTAN not NATO In the West Yes it’s best Ciao US Now we’re the West!

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