The Great White Way

“I thought I was Yum-Yum and you were Pitti-Sing!”

US President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin worked out some kinks out of town before taking their new production of The Mikado to Broadway:

Three little maids from school are we
Pert as a school-girl well can be
Filled to the brim with girlish glee
Three little maids from school

Everything is a source of fun
Nobody's safe, for we care for none
Life is a joke that's just begun
Three little maids from school

Three little maids who, all unwary
Come from a ladies' seminary
Freed from its genius tutelary
Three little maids from school

Bush also tried out some new dialogue, improvising in his host’s presence that, in Iraq, like in Vietnam, “we’ll succeed unless we quit.”

Hey, The Mikado is a comedy, after all!