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On Monday, January 22, 1951, at 4:45 P. M.
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.

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.)

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