Jason Robert Brown

CRAIG
Big news!
Another week goes by in Atlanta!
Another fascinating, scintillating, stimulating, spirit-stirring week!
Big news!
Another Sunday comes to Atlanta!
Another week of news so thrilling
That your average city newshound
Wants to take a headlong plunge into the creek!
You got a kitten up a tree?
Come to me! And I’ll see
It makes it on the front page!
The Mayor’s mother broke her toe?
They gotta know!
Stop the press – it’s a mess!
It’s the scandal of the age!!
Hell, it’s big news!
Another shock to rock Atlanta!
Another information feast
From the gateway to the whole Southeast!

Look! In the mines and the mills
And the Mexican hills, they got stories to tell.
Look! Now Ohio’s afloat.
Soon the women will vote and we’ll all go to Hell.
Look! Now that Wilson is in
And old Taft didn’t win, Hell, they’re comin’ to blows!
Look! The Titanic went down,
But I’m stuck in this town with my thumb up my nose
And that’s Big News!
Another stir-crazy freak in Atlaaaaanta.
The Board of Estimates approved a new street! (Yippee!)
They’re building churches out of high-grade concrete! (Looka that!)
They say the rain’ll give a break from the heat,
It’s a scoop! It’s a twist!
It’s a reason to exist!
Pray to Heaven and Zeus!
There’s a genius on the loose!
And that’s really really really Big News!
You never saw such things in Atlanta!
Another brilliant mind deceased
In the gateway to the whole Southeast!!

What a town!