There's Nothing Like A Show on Broadway - Mel Brooks

The overture is over

The curtain starts to rise

You’re suddenly in clover

You can’t believe your eyes

You’re sitting on the aisle

You break into a smile

Why this magic feeling?

And then you realize

That there is-

Nothing like a show on Broadway

Nothing like a Broadway show

Hearts will skip a beat on Broadway

If you’re feeling blue, I’m telling you

That’s the place to go

Movies drag, their endings sag

TV’s just a bore

So hit the street and move your feet

To the place we all ador

Because ther’s nothing like a show on Broadway

There’s nothing like a Broadway show

It’s often been said that theatre is dead

The critics repeat it en masse

Well, the theatre’s alive and it’s gonna survive

Although it’s a pain in the ass

You waited forever and finally got tickets

To get to your seat, you gotta cross pickets

The guy to your right is frightf’lly tight

The guy to your left appears to have rickets

The music’s yuck, the lyrics suck

The casting is all wrong

And when you reach the bathroom

The line is five miles long!

But still there’s nothing like a show on Broadway

There’s nothing like a Broadway show

You swear you’ll never go again

«It's simply not worthwhile»

You make that vow and then somehow-

-you're back there on the aisle

That’s why there’s nothing like a show on Broadway

There’s nothing like a Broadway show!

('Til you’re in movies)

There’s nothing like a Broadway show!

And though it is expensive and a hundred bucks a throw

There’s nothing like a Broadway show