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Come one, come all, to the Circus of Life--!
The song lyrics are in Zulu.
The song lyrics are in Zulu.
Category Story / Comics
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 800 x 999px
File Size 256 kB
Subtitles, pls, or I'm gonna assume it's...
[PROLOGUS, spoken]
Playgoers, I bid you welcome. The theatre is a temple, and we are here to worship the gods of comedy and tragedy. Tonight, I am pleased to announce a comedy. We shall employ every device we know in our desire to divert you.
(sung)
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
[PROLOGUS & PROTEANS]
A comedy tonight!
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Bad Bunny
The Grants
Lana Del Rey
Island
Miley Cyrus
[PROLOGUS]
Something esthetic
[PROTEANS]
Something frenetic
[PROLOGUS]
Something for everyone
[PROLOGUS & PROTEANS]
A comedy tonight!
[PROTEANS]
Nothing with gods
Nothing with fate;
[PROLOGUS]
Weighty affairs will just have to wait
[PROTEANS]
Nothing that's formal
[PROLOGUS]
Nothing that's normal
[PROTEANS]
No recitations to recite!
Open up the curtain—
Comedy tonight!
[PROLOGUS]
Something erratic
Something dramatic
Something for everyone—a comedy tonight!
Frenzy and frolic
Strictly symbolic
Something for everyone—a comedy tonight!
(spoken)
And now, the entire company!
[COMPANY]
Something familiar
Something peculiar
Something for everybody—comedy tonight!
Something that's gaudy
Something that's bawdy
Something for everybody—comedy tonight!
[SENEX]
Nothing that's grim
[DOMINA]
Nothing that's Greek
[PROLOGOUS]
She plays Medea later this week
[COMPANY]
Stunning surprises!
Cunning disguises!
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
Mimes
Tumblers
Grumblers
Bumblers
Fumblers
No royal curse
No Trojan horse
And a happy ending, of course!
Goodness and badness
Man in his madness
This time it all turns out all right—
Tragedy tomorrow
Comedy tonight!
(spoken)
One, two, three!
[PROLOGUS, spoken]
Playgoers, I bid you welcome. The theatre is a temple, and we are here to worship the gods of comedy and tragedy. Tonight, I am pleased to announce a comedy. We shall employ every device we know in our desire to divert you.
(sung)
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
[PROLOGUS & PROTEANS]
A comedy tonight!
You might also like
WHERE SHE GOES
Bad Bunny
The Grants
Lana Del Rey
Island
Miley Cyrus
[PROLOGUS]
Something esthetic
[PROTEANS]
Something frenetic
[PROLOGUS]
Something for everyone
[PROLOGUS & PROTEANS]
A comedy tonight!
[PROTEANS]
Nothing with gods
Nothing with fate;
[PROLOGUS]
Weighty affairs will just have to wait
[PROTEANS]
Nothing that's formal
[PROLOGUS]
Nothing that's normal
[PROTEANS]
No recitations to recite!
Open up the curtain—
Comedy tonight!
[PROLOGUS]
Something erratic
Something dramatic
Something for everyone—a comedy tonight!
Frenzy and frolic
Strictly symbolic
Something for everyone—a comedy tonight!
(spoken)
And now, the entire company!
[COMPANY]
Something familiar
Something peculiar
Something for everybody—comedy tonight!
Something that's gaudy
Something that's bawdy
Something for everybody—comedy tonight!
[SENEX]
Nothing that's grim
[DOMINA]
Nothing that's Greek
[PROLOGOUS]
She plays Medea later this week
[COMPANY]
Stunning surprises!
Cunning disguises!
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
Mimes
Tumblers
Grumblers
Bumblers
Fumblers
No royal curse
No Trojan horse
And a happy ending, of course!
Goodness and badness
Man in his madness
This time it all turns out all right—
Tragedy tomorrow
Comedy tonight!
(spoken)
One, two, three!
In the savanna, the endless savanna
the Lion eats tonight
In the savanna, the endless savanna
the Lion eats tonight
Yoooouuuu better run away as fast as you can go
Yoooouuuu better run away as fast as you can go
Hep! Hep! He'll eat you up, he'll eat you up, he'll eat you up, he'll eat you up...
You know what 've based this on. Originally recorded in South Africa as Mbube by Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds in 1939, it was discovered by American folk singer Pete Seeger in the late 1940s and recorded by him and his group The Weavers as Wimoweh sometime in the early 1950s. Later in 1960, it was rewritten by George David Weiss and recorded as The Lion Sleeps Tonight by The Tolkens in 1961, which was a hit for them. Just so you'll know...
the Lion eats tonight
In the savanna, the endless savanna
the Lion eats tonight
Yoooouuuu better run away as fast as you can go
Yoooouuuu better run away as fast as you can go
Hep! Hep! He'll eat you up, he'll eat you up, he'll eat you up, he'll eat you up...
You know what 've based this on. Originally recorded in South Africa as Mbube by Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds in 1939, it was discovered by American folk singer Pete Seeger in the late 1940s and recorded by him and his group The Weavers as Wimoweh sometime in the early 1950s. Later in 1960, it was rewritten by George David Weiss and recorded as The Lion Sleeps Tonight by The Tolkens in 1961, which was a hit for them. Just so you'll know...
The idea of having a circus performance to entertain the new Princess came from a show "Afrika en Cirque" that my husband and I went to see earlier this year. It was a group of highly talented acrobats and musicians performing a show with an African theme, and we were mesmerized by it. I knew that evening I had to put something similar into the strip.
I also thought it would need to be a bit of a play on "The Lion King" musical's opening number, where the big paper sun rises up out of the stage, and people dressed as stylized animals leap in silhouette across the stage.
When I was drawing this, I was casting about for "what animal to use for a ringmaster."
Then I realized that Rafiki would be perfect.
So I had to look around for an appropriate image to use as a drawing model. There wasn't anything online in the pose I needed, with the facial expression I needed--so I pasted two images together and added Dr. Facilier's hat from "The Princess and the Frog" as well as a classic ringmaster coat.
The hula otters were meant to appear much earlier in the story--I had introduced the idea when Sandy and Kathy first arrived in Kiyanti, with the otters surfing on the bow wave of the ship, and Sandy speaking "Lutran"--really Hawaiian--to the otter she met in town. They were invited to a luau at the otter village, but I never was able to fit that in, so I decided to have them perform a dance for the Circus instead.
I also thought it would need to be a bit of a play on "The Lion King" musical's opening number, where the big paper sun rises up out of the stage, and people dressed as stylized animals leap in silhouette across the stage.
When I was drawing this, I was casting about for "what animal to use for a ringmaster."
Then I realized that Rafiki would be perfect.
So I had to look around for an appropriate image to use as a drawing model. There wasn't anything online in the pose I needed, with the facial expression I needed--so I pasted two images together and added Dr. Facilier's hat from "The Princess and the Frog" as well as a classic ringmaster coat.
The hula otters were meant to appear much earlier in the story--I had introduced the idea when Sandy and Kathy first arrived in Kiyanti, with the otters surfing on the bow wave of the ship, and Sandy speaking "Lutran"--really Hawaiian--to the otter she met in town. They were invited to a luau at the otter village, but I never was able to fit that in, so I decided to have them perform a dance for the Circus instead.
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