FOOTLIGHTS
A shadow duet for two actors from Donald L. Brooks' play "SHOWCASE"

Trap door
in my nightmare
The scenery went up
and I went down
Blood in a comic operetta
A one-man show in a hippodrome
Lurking, lurking at the stage door
The understudy forgot his lines
Naked
In a costume drama
Villain
Of a buffonery

Footlights! Footlights! Footlights for theatricals!

There is a stark only face I control
I don't look to stage left, I don't look to stage right
Ahead, behind, above, below
There's no where to go
There's no where to go.

There is a dark, lonely place in the soul
You can look to stage left, you can look to stage right
Ahead, behind, above, below
There's no where to go
There's no where to go.

Footlights, footlights, footlights for theatricals!

Why
is the audience in the other room?
Why
are there no lines?
Othello
becomes
Macbeth
Why has this divertissement
turned into a burlesque
Mise en scene for murder
and everything is real.

Footlights, footlights, footlights for theatricals!