The Physical Revue program
On Monday, January 22, 1951, at 4:45 P. M.
in Jefferson 250, Harvard University:
in Jefferson 250, Harvard University:
Nobody in particular presents:
The Physical Review
(a music-drama in one scene)
Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
Music by (in order of appearance):
Jerome Kern, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Tom Lehrer, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Foster, James Van Heusen, W. Benton Overstreet, Frank Loesser, Wayne King and William Harold, Theodore Morse, Kurt Weill, Charles Grean, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Jerome Kern, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Tom Lehrer, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Foster, James Van Heusen, W. Benton Overstreet, Frank Loesser, Wayne King and William Harold, Theodore Morse, Kurt Weill, Charles Grean, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
| Cast: | Professor | Dr. Lewis M. Branscomb |
|---|---|---|
| Chemistry Major | Dr. David Z. Robinson | |
| Mathematics Major | Mr. Thomas A. Lehrer | |
| English Major (and guitar virtuoso) | Mr. Robert H. Welker | |
| Anthropology Major | Mr. Munro S. Edmonson | |
| Section Man | Mr. Robert Isaacs | |
| (Pianist, j.g., | Mr. James Hanson) |
| Scene: | The last class of a mythical course, Physics 11a. (There will be a three-year intermission at the end of Scene 1.) |
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Steinway piano (Diesel engine)
Some comments on "The Physical Review":
- Trite! - Albert Einstein
- Best show I ever see! - T. S. Eliot
- Don't fail to miss it! - Boston Herald
- Derivative! - American Journal of Mathematics
- Communist Propaganda! - Louella O. Parsons
- The show is nauseating! - Margaret O'Brien
- Margaret O'Brien is nauseating! - Ernest Hemingway
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