This piece is from the score of the original stage musical The Right Circles. It is performed by the characters Larry and Art.
Listen to .mp3 sample of Three Historical Figures from the Demo Recording.
See the The Right Circles post for Demo Recording performance credits.
Lyrics & Book Excerpt
LARRY: Perfect! Larry improvises a tune and sings like a Venetian gondolier: “DaVinci.”
DaVinci painted con motto brio
His good friends, they would all call him Leo
He got hungry when he finished Mona Lisa
For his last supper, he invented a pizza!
They both crack up.
ART: That was awful!
LARRY: That’s the point! Come on. Gimme another.
ART: Ah… Napoleon.
Larry switches to a mournful, French cafe sound, and does a Maurice Chevalier impression: “Napoleon.”
LARRY:
He was mean as Atilla ze Hun
Zo he stood a wee five foot one
ART:
But Waterloo caught him unaware
He got kicked in ze derriere
LARRY: Now you’re getting it! How about this? He begins a polka: “Einstein.”
Scientific genius with the messed up hair
Yes, it’s the Einstein Polka
ART: Oh, good Lord.
LARRY:
Theorizing how E equals m-c squared
ART: Stop!
© & 
2007, 1994 Mark S. Meritt and Richard Hack
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