Overture, curtain, lights This is it, the night of nights No more rehearsing and nursing a part We know every part by heart Overture, curtain, lights This is it, we'll hit the heights And oh what heights we'll hit On with the show this is it.

Tonight what heights we'll hit. On with the show, this is it.

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July 30, 2023 1:35 AM

Hmm. As a kid, I'd always heard that as 'Overture, cut the lights...'

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July 29, 2023 1:51 PM

Best damn cartoons evah!!!!!

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July 29, 2023 1:57 PM

Or, for modern Broadway ..." On with the show, this is shit."

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July 29, 2023 2:11 PM

R1 I always heard it as "Kirk the lights."

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July 29, 2023 2:18 PM

What's up, Doc? What's cookin'? What's up, Doc? Are you're lookin'

For Bugs Bunny bunting, Elmer's gone a-hunting

Just to get a rabbit skin but now the rabbit's gone again!

What's up, Doc? What's cookin'?

Hey! Look out! Stop! *KAPOW*

You're gonna hurt someone with that old shotgun! Eh, What's up, Doc?

We really mean it! What's... up... Doc!!

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July 29, 2023 6:37 PM

Bugs is totally a Phyllis.

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July 29, 2023 6:49 PM

I always loved that song. Still do.

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July 29, 2023 7:54 PM

Saturday morning ritual as a kid.

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July 29, 2023 8:07 PM

For some reason, this song has always reminded me of "Everything's Coming Up Roses." Maybe it's the use of "hit the heights" in both lyrics.

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July 29, 2023 8:08 PM

Oh, we're the Boys of the Chorus, We hope you like the show!

We know you're rooting for us, But now we have to go!!

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July 29, 2023 8:12 PM

As a kid, I'd always heard that as 'Overture, HIT the lights...'

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July 29, 2023 8:12 PM

I have to say what I feel. Miami has so much appeal.

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July 29, 2023 8:23 PM

Me too, R9, Saturday morning cartoons were a highlight of my childhood, along with "Creature Features" late at night, and the Warner Brothers cartoons were the BEST cartoons!

Looking back after decades of adulthood, I can say with complete sincerity that the Warner Brothers cartoons were my first introduction to great filmmaking.

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July 29, 2023 10:30 PM

[quote]As a kid, I'd always heard that as 'Overture, HIT the lights...'

I thought they were saying that until I read this thread.

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July 29, 2023 11:02 PM

Wow, I just realized that Bugs Bunny turned me into a theatre queen when I watched this show as a kid.

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July 30, 2023 12:42 AM

Those cartoons were not only my first exposure to great filmmaking, R19, they were my first exposure to camp sensibilities!

I still wonder if Bugs' campy side was purely satirical, or if someone behind the camera was a closet show tune queen.

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July 30, 2023 1:13 AM

Between this and the opening to The Muppet Show it’s no wonder I became a theatresexual.

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July 30, 2023 1:18 AM

Bugs and Daffy are now a couple of old theatre queens who reminisce about the old days doing vaudeville.

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July 30, 2023 1:20 AM

Oh Brunhilda, you're so lovely

Yes I know it, I can't help it...

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July 30, 2023 1:35 AM