Stephen Sondheim - Comedy Tonight Lyrics
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!Something familiar,Something peculiar,Something for everybody:Comedy tonight!Something that's gaudy,Something that's bawdy--Something for everybawdy!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!Crimes!Tumblers!Grumblers!Bumblers!Fumblers!-acapo
