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We bring drama to your great metropolis
We are the little theatre group
Each of us has built a small acropolis
To hold our little theatre troupe
We'd be very glad to meet you, and greet you, and seat you and treat you just Great
For all commercial art is hollow;
So follow Apollo and swallow our bait
Help to serve the art of your Cosmopolis
If you'll be one of us
Each son of us will welcome you at the gate
The neighborhood playhouse may shine below the Macy Gimbel line
It was built to make a ride for people on Fifth Avenue
To Yeats and Synge and Shaw and such we add an oriental touch
We bring out the aesthetic soul you didn't know you have in you
We like to serve a mild dish of folk lore quaintly childish
Or something Oscar Wildeish, in pantomime or dance
Grand Street folk we never see'em, they think the place is a museum
And we know just what we do, because we always take a chance
The Provincetown Playhouse still owns the art of Robert Edmond Jones
From the classic drama we're a notable secessionist
We've even made the censors feel the verity of Gene O'Neill
The meaning doesn't matter if the manner is expressionist!
Our one great contribution to art is revolution!
Our mood is very "Roosh-in" you can tell it at a glance
Our bare stage may look funny but it saves us lots of money
And we know just what we do, Because we always take a chance
For your attention, many thanks we've brought along subscription blanks
For actor's Theatre that the audience may glory in
The dear old "Servant in the House" the "Pride of Mister Rankin Touse,"
And plays by Henrik Ibsen in a manner quite Victorian!
We spurn the bedroom dramas with heroes in pajamas
For things that pleased our Mamas such as Candida's romance
We wear the sock and buskin to the taste of old John Ruskin
And we know just what we do, because we never take a chance!