Comedy Tonight (From "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum")

Comedy Tonight - Jason Alexander/Jerome Robbins' Broadway Ensemble/Jerome Robbins' Broadway Orchestra/Paul Gemignani

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 disguise

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 madnessThis time it all turns out all right

Tragedy tomorrow

Comedy tonight