There's Nothing Like A Show On Broadway

Music by Mel Brooks
Lyrics by Mel Brooks


The overture is over
The curtain starts to rise
You're suddenly in glover
You can't believe your eyes
You're sitting on the aisle
You break into a smile
Why this magic feeling?
And then you realise

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

Movie's drag their endings sag
TV's just a bore
So hit the street and move your feet
To the place we all adore
Because there's nothing like a show on Broadway
There's nothing like a Broadway show

It's often been said
The theatre is dead
The critics repeat it en masse
But the theatre's alive
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 frightfully tight
And 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 worthwile
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 at a hundred bucks a throw
There's nothing
Like a Broadway show!

 

MATTHEW BRODERICK and NATHAN LANE
"There's Nothing Like A Show On Broadway"
Soundtrack : The Producers