That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 24, 2024

“Fashionably late? We are in the Act III of Barber of Seville !”

Wow, someone really did cut the cheese.

Old man: “If you’re going to step on my toes as you swan through in the middle of the aria, you should at least have the decency to lean the other way, so I can peer down your cleavage”

Sic Semper Tyrannis my a$$!

I know that being pale was beautiful back then, but she’s wearing enough white lead to prevent Superman from seeing her underwear.

/// At the theatre they always come late,

at the rise of the curtain at eight.

Both squeeze through to their seat,

stepping on people’s feet,

for they’re all just a bit overweight.

Every theatergoer knows/

Inconsiderate persons like those/

Who arrive “en retard”/

In a flurry of lard/

Then fashionably tread on your toes.

In looking at the other paintings and illustrations of this artist, it reminds me of the style of many early “The New Yorker” cartoons and those of other magazines following.

AH, HA! You have been watching porn, there’s smoke smudge on these.

Mrs. Santa has stigmata? Who knew?

Down in front!

I get the moment captured, but still can’t get my eyes off those curvy women.

This must be the loge that’s OVER yesterday’s commons area.

To upgrade an image, a new dress code is enforced for hockey fans

Lord and Lady Lardbottom left D’Oyly Carte’s opera house in high dudgeon when they realized that they were the English snobs that Gilbert & Sullivan were satirizing.

She’s the focal point of the scene../

She’s parading her massive “poitrine”/

Lesser mortals defer/

To Milady’s hauteur:/

She thinks she’s the bloody Queen ..

Things get heated at the W.C. Fields impersonation contest. “No, YOU get outta here, kid! YOU bother ME!”

Ah, harking back to an age when a lady spilling something out at the theater did NOT refer to her popcorn.

The latecomers: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Theatre in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string P2805, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browsers, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image. 

Once the image has been posted, (Ctrl- or right-) clicking it in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3258 (January 24, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu, or maybe just clicking it, will show it larger. I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the January 14, 2022, strip being the prior.

Excuse me people, excuse me, make way, please make room for the breasts to get through..

The fun part is when the string comes loose as the monocle falls into her bodice.

Maestro, you forgot your harmonica!

“Sit DOWN, Harold! They aren’t talking about you!”

“There’s that d*mn fly again.”

Pepper, pepper, pepper!!!!!!!! :)

She’s not my date, i found her on the street and she wanted to hear some music.

Where is LaGoulue lately ?

Sorry … Sorry … Sorry. We had to wait until someone had Gray Poupon we could borrow.

After they were pushed over the railing, the rest timed their applause to coincide with the play.

For Thursday:

To her window she flew like a flash/

She knew she must gather her stash/

For the news wasn’t good-/

The whole town was wood/

And in hours that wood would be ash..

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