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Something familiar, |
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Something peculiar, |
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Something for everyone: |
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A comedy tonight! |
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Something appealing, |
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Something appalling, |
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Something for everyone: |
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A comedy tonight! |
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Nothing with kings, nothing with crowns; |
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Bring on the lovers, liars and clowns! |
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Old situations, |
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New complications, |
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Nothing portentous or polite; |
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Tragedy tomorrow, |
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Comedy tonight! |
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Something convulsive, |
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Something repulsive, |
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Something for everyone: |
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A comedy tonight! |
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Something aesthetic, |
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Something frenetic, |
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Something for everyone: |
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A comedy tonight! |
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Nothing with gods, nothing with fate; |
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Weighty affairs will just have to wait! |
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Nothing that's formal, |
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Nothing that's normal, |
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No recitations to recite; |
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Open up the curtain: |
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Comedy Tonight! |
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Something erratic, |
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Something dramatic, |
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Something for everyone: |
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A comedy tonight! |
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Frenzy and frolic, |
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Strictly symbolic, |
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Something for everyone: |
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A comedy tonight! |
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Something familiar, |
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Something peculiar, |
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Something for everybody: |
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Comedy tonight! |
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Something that's gaudy, |
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Something that's bawdy-- |
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Something for everybawdy! |
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Comedy tonight! |
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Nothing that's grim. |
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Nothing that's Greek. |
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She plays Medea later this week. |
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Stunning surprises! |
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Cunning disguises! |
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Hundreds of actors out of sight! |
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Pantaloons and tunics! |
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Courtesans and eunuchs! |
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Funerals and chases! |
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Baritones and basses! |
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Panderers! |
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Philanderers! |
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Cupidity! |
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Timidity! |
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Mistakes! |
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Fakes! |
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Rhymes! |
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Crimes! |
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Tumblers! |
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Grumblers! |
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Bumblers! |
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Fumblers! |
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No royal curse, no Trojan horse, |
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And a happy ending, of course! |
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Goodness and badness, |
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Panic is madness-- |
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This time it all turns out all right! |
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Tragedy tomorrow, |
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Comedy tonight! |