Comedy Tonight

[00:08.08] Playgoers, I bid you welcome
[00:10.55] The theater is a temple
[00:12.46] And we are here to worship the gods of comedy and tragedy
[00:17.07] Tonight, I am pleased to announce a comedy
[00:20.82] We shall employ every device we know
[00:24.01] In our desire to divert you
[00:28.41]
[00:31.81] Something familiar
[00:33.94] Something peculiar
[00:36.27] Something for everyone
[00:38.62] A comedy tonight!
[00:40.83] Something appealing
[00:43.03] Something appalling
[00:45.12] Something for everyone
[00:47.37] A comedy tonight!
[00:49.73] Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns
[00:54.43] Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns!
[00:59.04] Old situations
[01:01.18] New complications
[01:03.65] Nothing portentous or polite
[01:08.09] Tragedy tomorrow
[01:10.45] Comedy tonight!
[01:15.80] Something convulsive (Ah!)
[01:18.28] Something repulsive (Ew!)
[01:20.48] Something for everyone
[01:22.38] A comedy tonight!
[01:24.41] Something aesthetic
[01:26.93] Something frenetic
[01:28.98] Something for everyone
[01:31.17] A comedy tonight!
[01:33.56] Nothing with gods
[01:35.61] Nothing with fate
[01:37.85] Weighty affairs will just have to wait
[01:42.13] Nothing that's formal
[01:44.57] Nothing that's normal
[01:46.72] No recitations to recite
[01:51.05] Open up the curtain
[01:54.85]
[02:01.88] Comedy tonight!
[02:05.20]
[02:20.24] Something erratic
[02:22.59] Something dramatic
[02:24.65] Something for everyone
[02:26.46] A comedy tonight!
[02:29.01] Frenzy and frolic
[02:31.48] Strictly symbolic
[02:33.37] Something for everyone
[02:35.30] A comedy tonight!
[02:38.83]
[03:03.72] Now, the entire company!
[03:08.27]
[03:30.00] Something familiar
[03:31.83] Something peculiar
[03:33.99] Something for everybody
[03:36.06] Comedy tonight!
[03:38.22] Something that's gawdy
[03:40.24] Something that's bawdy
[03:42.35] Something for everybody
[03:44.51] Comedy tonight!
[03:46.92] Nothing that's grim
[03:49.05] Nothing that's Greek
[03:51.21] She plays Medea later this week
[03:55.55] Stunning surprises
[03:57.72] Cunning disguises
[03:59.87] Hundreds of actors out of sight
[04:04.22] Pantaloons and tunics
[04:06.34] Courtesans and eunuchs
[04:08.12] Funerals and chases
[04:10.23] Baritones and basses
[04:12.11] Panderers
[04:13.05] Philanderers
[04:14.28] Cupidity
[04:15.01] Timidity
[04:16.39] Mistakes
[04:17.29] Fakes
[04:17.86] Rhymes
[04:18.45] Mimes
[04:18.80] Tumblers, grumblers, bumblers, fumblers
[04:20.85] No royal curse
[04:23.21] No Trojan horse
[04:25.50] And a happy ending, of course!
[04:29.96] Goodness and badness
[04:32.12] Man in his madness
[04:34.23] This time it all turns out all right
[04:38.94] Tragedy tomorrow
[04:43.04]
[04:45.49] Comedy tonight!
[04:52.95] One, two, three!
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