(::PSEUDOLUS::)
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,
Something repulsive,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!
Something aesthetic,
Something frenetic,
Something for everyone:
A comedy tonight!
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!
(::ENTIRE COMPANY::)
Something familiar,
Something peculiar,
Something for everybody:
Comedy tonight!
Something that's gaudy,
Something that's bawdy--
(::PSEUDOLUS::)
Something for everybawdy!
(::ENTIRE COMPANY::)
Comedy tonight!
(::MILES GLORIOSUS::)
Nothing that's grim.
(::DOMINA::)
Nothing that's Greek.
(::PSEUDOLUS::)
(::Indicating DOMINA:::)
She plays Medea later this week.
(::WOMEN::)
Stunning surprises!
(::MEN::)
Cunning disguises!
(::ALL::)
Hundreds of actors out of sight!
(::ERRONIUS::)
Pantaloons and tunics!
(::SENEX::)
Courtesans and eunuchs!
(::HERO::)
Funerals and chases!
(::LYCUS::)
Baritones and basses!
(::PHILIA::)
Panderers!
(::HERO::)
Philanderers!
(::HYSTERIUM::)
Cupidity!
(::MILES::)
Timidity!
(::LYCUS::)
Mistakes!
(::ERRONIUS::)
Fakes!
(::DOMINA::)
Rhymes!
(::PHILIA::)
Crimes!
(::PSEUDOLUS::)
Tumblers!
Grumblers!
Bumblers!
Fumblers!
(::ALL::)
No royal curse, no Trojan horse,
And a happy ending, of course!
Goodness and badness,
Panic is madness--
This time it all turns out all right!
Tragedy tomorrow,
Comedy tonight!
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