Readers recommend: songs about the theatre – results

From the groundlings to the gods, your songs about the stage took in all aspects of treading the boards"The man that hath no music in himself/ Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds/ Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils." The Merchant of Venice (V, i, 83-85).Ah, the Bard. Last week I filled my lungs with the smell of grease paint as I considered your nominations for the best songs about treading the boards. RR commentators are of course schooled in the classics, one being Sons of t...

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