Shipload of Fools

Role in the Story
Shea swears they've found the true weapon that brought about Varthur's demise and breaks into song, falling back into the Rosetta Stone character and reading the script for A Circus Steamboat Murder to Justine.

Performers

 * Alex Newell as Shea Crescendo

Lyrics
[SHEA]

On the open sea, they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

On the open sea, they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

In the captain's chamber, he's kissing on a stranger

But it's not his wife, it's the lion tamer

His wife is in the hallway, cheated on like always

So, she's got a knife that she's hiding in a bouquet

Wait until you see what goes down, now

Don't mess with the tears of a clown, now

On the open sea, they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

On the open sea, they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

The clown runs from the cabin, followed by the captain

Wants to catch his wife before she gets to stabbin'

As the ship was lurching, he continued searching

Doesn't find his wife but he finds an urchin

Wait until you see who's in peril

Hiding in the bottom of a barrel

On the open sea, they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

On the open sea, they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

Near the end of act one, finally some action

Everyone's assembled for the main attraction

The circus is in full swing, my hubby's in the big ring

I'm up on the trapeze about to do my thing

Wait until you hear the ringmaster

What he says before the disaster

On the open sea, they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

I turn my attention to the intervention

With the lion tamer and her cat collection

Blah, blah, blah, skip to the steward

Finally the mute gets a few words

And I am telling you, I'll find out who did this

He was the best ringmaster I'll ever know

There is no way I'm trapezing without him

I saw a side he wouldn't show

He cracked this Rosetta Stone

He carried my big heart in a symbolic box inside his chest

It resembles a real box the captain has locked in his desk

On the open sea they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

On the open sea they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

On the open sea they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

On the open sea they don't play by the rules

It's a whole shipload of fools

Trivia

 * In the scripted version of the show, Rosetta's monologue is actually repeated to save for time as Justine investigates a clue found in the script.

Resources

 * https://genius.com/Original-cast-of-a-killer-party-shipload-of-fools-lyrics