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2010 Broadway
Sondheim on Sondheim the Musical - Comedy Tonight Lyrics
(From "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" the Musical)
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!
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!
Other Songs: Sondheim on Sondheim the Musical Songs Lyrics
Comedy Tonight lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Sondheim on Sondheim the Musical Lyrics
Love Is in the Air
Comedy Tonight
Take Me to the World
Talent/ When I Get Famous
Something's Coming
So Many People
You Could Drive a Person Crazy
Now You Know
Franklin Shepard Inc.
Good Thing Going
Waiting for the Girls Upstairs
The Best Thing That Ever Happened
Happiness
Fosca's Entrance (I Read)
Is This What You Call Love?
Loving You
God
Losing My Mind / Not a Day Goes By
Opening Doors
Multitudes of Amys
Happily Ever After
Being Alive
Something Just Broke
The Gun Song
Smile, Girls
Finishing the Hat
Beautiful
Children Will Listen
Send in the Clowns
Company/ Old Friends
Anyone Can Whistle
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