Comedy Tonight – A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum – letras

[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!