30/10/2024
Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd…
(although we'd know)
Ahhh, No way!!
It's all Figaro… Figaro… Figaro… (dramatic pause)
in an orange pancake face.
See him! Dangling! Dangling as if he is the new definition of whatever dangles on strings, dangling to Plácido Plácido Plácido Domingo!
Cha!
Mar-a-Lago al factotum (at his best, a meddler)
So let's hear it:
Make way for the city's servant.
Off to the shop soon. It is already dawn.
Ah, what a beautiful life, what lovely pleasure
For a barber of quality!
Ah, worthy Figaro! Worthy, superb!
Most fortunate for sure!
Ready to do anything, night and day,
Always around and about.
A better Cockaigne for a barber,
A nobler life, there is none.
Razors and combs, lancets and scissors
Are all here at my command.
There is also resourcefulness, in the trade,
With the young lady, with the young man.
Make way for the city's servant.
Off to the shop soon. It is already dawn.
Ah, what a beautiful life, what lovely pleasure
For a barber of quality!
Ah, worthy Figaro! Worthy, superb!
Most fortunate for sure!
Ready to do anything, night and day,
Always around and about.
A better Cockaigne for a barber,
A nobler life, there is none.
Razors and combs, lancets and scissors
Are all here at my command.
There is also resourcefulness, in the trade,
With the young lady, with the young man.
Everyone asks for me. Everyone wants me:
Women, boys, the elderly, girls.
Here this wig; quickly this beard;
Here this bleeding, quickly this note;
"Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!" etc.
Alas, what a fury! Alas, what a crowd!
One at a time, for charity's sake!
"Hey, Figaro!" Here I am!
Figaro here, Figaro there,
Figaro up, Figaro down.
Swift, swifter, like lightning I am.
I am the city's servant.
Ah, worthy Figaro! Worthy, superb;
Fortune will not fail you.
I am the city's servant! . .
And first in the chair is your Social Security. Ahh, no private pensions your husband left you!!? We'll just take the rest!
Otherwise, enjoy!
“Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!” is the thundering refrain in the famous aria, “Largo al factotum” (Make Way for the Factotum), from Gioacchino Rossini’s Opera “Il ...