Testi Soundtracks :: F

[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!