Madeline Kahn, John Cullum, George Coe, Dean Dittman & On the Twentieth Century Ensemble - On the Twentieth Century (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

On the Twentieth Century: Babbette

Max, I've got to re-read this play, "Babette"
Get Oscar and the Mary Magdalene play out of my mind

An evening late in June
A formal dinner at Babette's
The talk is sharp and swift
And yet the atmosphere is fraught with tension
Everyone is there
Corrupt and debonair
A Mayfair set convention

Babette speaks
I gave this small soiree
To tell you all the shrieking news
I'm leaving Rodney's bed
The joke is that I'm also leaving Nigel
What a shabby lot
Bedecked with jewels
Between two fools
All hope is gone
The dance goes on
And make the music hot!

Rodney speaks! Babette
If you think that you can throw away and so on and so on
Nigel speaks! But! Babette
This charade will have to end and so on and so on
Rodney: why, you filthy slut and so on and so on
And the guests chatter, and so and so and so
Babette!
My cigarette is out
Oh Rodney, please get me a light
I need another drink
She sneers and hurls her glass of gin at Nigel
What a shabby lot
I'll get away
To St. Tropez
In gin and bitters
Drown my jitters

Lily, forget Babette! You'd be magnificent as Mary Magdalene!
Yes! Take your wine away!
Reborn am I today!
Redemption!
Our sins will be forgiven
And we shall be
No

I need another drink
I think I'd like a sip of champagne
Or better still a snort of cocaine
Or better still

Let us seek salvation!
My cigarette is out
The gin is never strong enough
I live for endless loving
Boozing
Dancing
Cruising
We shall be saved!
Boozing dancing cruising
We shall be saved!
Rodney Nigel Rodney boozing dancing cruising
We shall be!
My cigarette is
Saved!
My cigarette is
Saved!
My cigarette is
Saved!
Where are you, Rodney?
Nigel, Nigel, Rodney, Rodney
Nigel, Oscar, Oscar, Oscar, Oscar
Oscar!
Goodbye Oscar! Goodbye Mary Magdalene!

Max, I love your play!
Deh deh deh deh
Deh deh deh deh deh
Max, I'll do this play!
Deh deh deh deh
Deh deh deh deh deh
Max, I really really love this play!
I can safely say
I will slay Broadway
Make way for bad Babette
The darling of the Mayfair set
Deh deh deh deh
Deh deh deh deh deh
Deh deh deh deh
Deh deh deh deh deh
Depraved
Debauched
And declasse
Max I really really love this play
Chic and tres risque
Weary and soigne
It's Babs the British witch
The idol of the idle rich!
Deh deh deh deh
Deh deh deh deh deh
Deh deh deh deh
Deh deh deh deh deh
Degenerate
Decadent
Hey, hey, hey!
Max, we're set
You've lit my cigarette
Max, I'll do Babette!
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
Babette!

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Writer(s): Cy Coleman, Betty Comden, Adolph Green
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