BROADWAY BEREFT MALE CURLS-ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

There is a sudden shortage here
Began this week, so now draw near
This cause celebre, all you girls,
To bring back Broadway's virile curls!

You can wig 'em, it is true
And perm 'em, dye 'em (even blue)
A shiny pate can't hold a candle
To those REAL CURLS--oh, it's a scandal

Where are producers in this hub?
They're prob'ly at some local pub
But while they drink and sup their grub
We're out the curls--aye, there's the rub

There has to be some other who
Whose musicale will be true blue
That has a lead, a song, a prance
For magic curls that sing and dance

Look, we will even be pragmatic
In pursuit of this cause dramatic
A classic drama--a kung fu!
But quench our thirst for male curls, do!

© 1995 nomdeplume by pseudonym

Updated On: 12/9/05 at 04:30 PM

You can sing it to "Hernando's Hideaway" -- Ole!

No one has better magic curls than Dan (William Barfee) Fogler--and he has a magic foot to go with them

Sicko.

I'm simply devastated.

Bliss is in the eye of the beholder.

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A response, in iambic pentameter, to your tragic verse:


Oh my! A shock you give me, nomdeplume.
But, hark! I see an ending to this gloom.
Our stages shall not long be left bereft,
Not long, I think, we’ll suffer from this theft.
In musical or in dramatic play,
One day those straight-haired men will rue the day.
They’ll see o’er all the value of a curl,
And smiles will bring to ev'ry boy and girl.
For though a drought on us today may reign,
I know I see an ending to your pain.
We shall use all our charm and cunning wiles,
And bring back curls in sleek or bouncing styles.

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Updated On: 12/10/05 at 12:53 AM