Tea Rat: Cheese and crackers! There's a real Blakenrosentauber, a criminal no less? I just made up the disguise to get an audition for Miss Moussie's new show.Mozes: Miss M., what do you want me to do? I'm guided by you here.
Miss M.: Well...Tea Rat's masquerade was good enough to get him past SMASH, and good acting is, after all, what we're looking for. Also, he has been our most devoted supporter. OK THEN. My dear Tea Rat, I have just the part for you in my show. Mind you, it's only a teeny, tiny part.
Tea Rat: Anything, anything. You won't forget it. I mean, beget it. I mean, you won't regret it.
*♪ ♫..They're gonna put me in the movies. They're gonna make a big star out of me..♪ ♫.*
OPENING NIGHT:
**♪ ♫..Overture, curtains, lights.
♪ ♫..This is it, you'll hit the heights.
♪ ♫..And oh what heights you'll hit.
♪ ♫..On with the show this it...♪ ♫..**
♪ ♫..Prince Mouse searched over hill and-a-dale,
for to find his Princess most beauteous fair.
♪ ♫..But the evil Duke Badger, O' foul beyond pale,
Kidnapped the fair Princess, her honor to scale.
♪ ♫..Whilst he waylaid our hero and cast him in jail,
maimed cruelly his body, a set him to wail.
♪ ♫..But his love for his lady kept him vim and in hale.
He escaped his tormentor and resu-med his grail.
♪ ♫..Yet, should love ever find them, would love-lone avail?
For he was now and forever a Mouse without a tail..♪ ♫.
Hurrumph...
♪ ♫..Ohh, Mozes of SMASH pay attention with ardor.
The felon you seek's not to port nor to starboard.
He haveth the gall in this theatre to harbor.
Front row center, the rouge Blakenrosentauber.♪ ♫.
SNAP!"Oh, oh!"
♪ ♫..But his love for his lady kept him vim and in hale.♪ ♫..
"Oh, Tea Rat, that was a brave thing you did."
♪ ♫..Yet, should love ever find them, would love-lone avail?
"Miss M. whatever are you doing here? Is this heaven?"
♪ ♫...he was now and forever a Mouse without a tail..♪ ♫."This is Mozes, coming out with the fugitive Blakenrosentauber. Copy that?"
((That's great, boss. Way to SMASH 'em!))
♪ ♫...he was now and forever a Mouse without a tail..♪ ♫.
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap..."Bravo...bravo....Wonderful....Sensational...Awesome"
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Great surprise ending! Bravo!
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I can't stop crying! Sniff!
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*From "Act Naturally," The Beatles (originally by Buck Owens).
**From "Bugs Bunny Overture."