Fashion Show

Lyrics

[MARY] Stop! Halt! Pause! Wait! [CROWD] What's your silly notion In causing this commotion Who are you to dally With Throtty's big finale? [MARY] Before you go any further With this passion show I would like to introduce A fashion show [TRIXIE, spoken] A fashion show [GIRLS, spoken] Oh [KRUGER, spoken] We've got no time for that! One, two— [MARY, spoken] But they're the very latest models. Look! [GIRLS, spoken] Oh [KRUGER, spoken] Wait a minute What about these executions? [TRIXIE, spoken] Oh, shut up, Kruger, we wanna see the dresses You can have the executions afterwards [GIRLS, spoken] Yes! [MARY, spoken] All right girls, let's see them [Music for the fashion show. The five WIVES enter, each wearing a lovely evening gown.] [TRIXIE, spoken] Tell me Mary, where did you get those gorgeous dresses? [MARY, spoken] From Paris, the latest fashion They came on the same boat that brought the guillotine [TRIXIE, spoken] Have you got one for me? [MARY, spoken] Yes, and for every woman here [GIRLS, spoken] Hooray! [MARY, spoken] But they won't do you any good because you can't wear them And why can't you wear them? Because under the revolution You've got to wear the same costume all the time Blue, blue, blue While the women of Paris and the women of London Are getting into the latest fall frocks You'll still be wearing that same blue blouse As long as he's your Dictator [TRIXIE, spoken] Then down with the Dictator! [GIRLS, spoken] Yay! [TRIXIE] Down with Kruger, the Dictator! [GIRLS] The Dictator! [TRIXIE] To our sex he will not cater! [GIRLS] Will not cater!