The theatre. The theatre. What book of rules say the theatre exists only within some ugly...
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The theatre. The theatre. What book of rules say the theatre exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City? Or London? Paris or Vienna? Listen, Junior, and learn. Do you wanna know what the theatre is? A flea circus. Also opera. Also rodeos, carnivals, ballets, Indian tribal dances, Punch and Judy, a one-man band, all theatre. Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience, there's theatre. Donald Duck, Ibsen and The Lone Ranger. Sarah Bernhardt and Poodles Hanneford. Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable. Rex the Wild Horse, Eleonora Duse, all theatre. You don't understand them all. You don't like them all. Why should you? The theatre's for everybody, you included, but not exclusively. So, don't approve or disapprove. It may not be your theatre, but it's theatre for somebody, somewhere
The theatre. The theatre. What book of rules say the theatre exists only within some ugly buildings crowded into one square mile of New York City? Or London? Paris or Vienna? Listen, Junior, and learn. Do you wanna know what the theatre is? A flea circus. Also opera. Also rodeos, carnivals, ballets, Indian tribal dances, Punch and Judy, a one-man band, all theatre. Wherever there's magic and make-believe and an audience, there's theatre. Donald Duck, Ibsen and The Lone Ranger. Sarah Bernhardt and Poodles Hanneford. Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable. Rex the Wild Horse, Eleonora Duse, all theatre. You don't understand them all. You don't like them all. Why should you? The theatre's for everybody, you included, but not exclusively. So, don't approve or disapprove. It may not be your theatre, but it's theatre for somebody, somewhere
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crowded into one
square mile of New York City?
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Or London, Paris or Vienna?
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Listen, Junior, and learn
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Do you wanna know what the theatre is?
A flea circus. Also opera.
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Also rodeos, Carnivals, ballets
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Indian tribal dances, Punch and Judy
a one-man band, all tneatre.
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Wherever there's magic and make-believe
and an audience, there's theatre.
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Donald Duck, Ibsen and The Lone Ranger
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Sarah Bernhardt and Poodles Hanneford
Lunt and Fontanne, Betty Grable_
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Rex the Wild Horse, Eleonora Duse
all theatre.
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You don't understand them all
You don't like them all.
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Why should you?
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The theatre's for everybody, you included
but not exclusively.
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So, don't approve or disapprove
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It may not be your theatre,
but it's theatre for somebody, somewhere
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I just asked a simple question
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And I shot my mouth off
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Nothing personal, Junior. No offense
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It's just that there's so much bushwa in
this ivory greenroom they call the theatre
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sometimes it gets up around my chin
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But Hollywood.
You mustn't stay out there
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It's only a one-picture deal
-So few come back.
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I read George Jean Nathan every week
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-Also Addison DeWitt
-Every day.
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You didn't have to tell me
-(door opens)
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It's the latest thing, one earring
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If it isn't, it's going to be.
I can’t find the other one
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Throw that dreary letter away
It bores me.
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Where do you suppose it could be?
-it'll show up.
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Oh, I give up. Look in the wigs
Maybe it got caught in one.
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Real diamonds in a wig
The world we live in.
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-Where's my coat?
Right where you left it
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Movie Summary
A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Actors
Bill Sampson
Eve Harrington
