As Christmas winds down and we approach a New Year, amid bad economic news, it’s worth keeping in mind the words of this musical number (as performed in a 2008 stage version). Every word doesn’t fit — but a lot of them do:
The film version of this classic and lively musical is still available on DVD:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.