Zero Mostel

Comedy Tonight

歌词

Playgoers, I bid you welcome
The theater is a temple
And we are here to worship the gods of comedy and tragedy
Tonight, I am pleased to announce a comedy
We shall employ every device we know
In our desire to divert you

Something familiar
Something peculiar
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!
Something appealing
Something appalling
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!
Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns
Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns!
Old situations
New complications
Nothing portentous or polite
Tragedy tomorrow
Comedy tonight!
Something convulsive (Ah!)
Something repulsive (Ew!)
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!
Something aesthetic
Something frenetic
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!

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Nothing with gods
Nothing with fate
Weighty affairs will just have to wait
Nothing that's formal
Nothing that's normal
No recitations to recite
Open up the curtain

Comedy tonight!

Something erratic
Something dramatic
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!
Frenzy and frolic
Strictly symbolic
Something for everyone
A comedy tonight!

Now, the entire company!

Something familiar
Something peculiar
Something for everybody
Comedy tonight!
Something that's gawdy
Something that's bawdy
Something for everybody
Comedy tonight!

Nothing that's grim
Nothing that's Greek
She plays Medea later this week
Stunning surprises
Cunning disguises
Hundreds of actors out of sight
Pantaloons and tunics
Courtesans and eunuchs
Funerals and chases
Baritones and basses
Panderers
Philanderers
Cupidity
Timidity
Mistakes
Fakes
Rhymes
Mimes
Tumblers, grumblers, bumblers, fumblers
No royal curse
No Trojan horse
And a happy ending, of course!