This is a song from the first act of the 2014 Broadway show ‘Something Rotten!“ The song is the soothsayer Nostradamus telling the main character Nick Bottom that the future of theatre, and his key to success, is musical theatre. The number, like the entire show, is chock-full of references to famous show-tunes, lyrically, musically, and through choreography and blocking.
This number was also performed at the 2014 Tony Awards, and the 2015 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.