Acting Funny

As performed by Maggie Drake, Nina Harris, Pat Daly, Miles …:

Music: Sullivan - Modern Major General, Words: Jess Ackburg

All We’re acting funny for no money:

Pat amateurly comical

All By day we’re horticultural, domestical and clerical

We come in every shape and size

Miles from lofty

Nina to the spherical

All We are the latest model of the Painswick Am.Dramatical

All We’ll play anything from farcical to tragical and classical

Pat The classic’s tragic,

Miles farce lethargic,

Maggie tragic simply farcical!

All There is no set, nor costumes yet, the lighting’s problematical

But we’re still the latest model of the Painswick Am.Dramatical

All We ham a lot and lose the plot.

Maggie I sometimes get hysterical!

*****PAUSE…All glare at Maggie*****

Nina I missed a cue, locked in the loo and stayed there till the interval

Miles What comes next?

Pat I forget the text, but it must be something "attical"

All ‘cos all the time it has to rhyme with Painswick Am.Dramatical

All We know we’ve been away some time; in fact we’re quite historical!

But PaDS is back and in its prime, of that we’re categorical

No matter now how strange it seems, how utterly impractical

We are the latest model of the Painswick Am.Dramatical.