Something Funny's Going On is the name of a song of the musical, Lucky Stiff, which is sung in both Act-1 and Act-2. It explains the prolouge and explains what happened before the intermission and what's to come in Act-2.
Act-1
Everyone
- Something funny's going on,
- And it isn't very pretty.
Women
- This is how it all began,
Men
- With the murder of a man,
Everyone
- In Atlantic City, New Jersey .
- Something funny's going on,
- There's a lot we haven't told yet.
Women
- There's a fortune,
Men
- And a chase,
Everyone
- And a lovely foreign place,
- And the body isn't cold yet,
- In New Jersey
- The story that you're about to hear
- Is strange, we know,
- And things like this don't happen every day
- But, there's a little saying
- And it's apropos,
- Where there's a will,
Women
- Where there's a will,
Everyone
- Where there's a will, there's a way.
Woman screams
Uncle Anthony
- Dear nephew Harry,
- This is my last will and testament.
- I hope it finds you in better health than it does me. Ha! Ha!
Everyone
- Something funny's going on,
- There's an awful lot of action.
Dominique
- And a physical attraction,
Annabel
- And a lot of dogs,
Vinnie
- There's a fortune to be won,
Rita
- And a woman with a gun,
Luigi
- And the body of a man,
Everyone
- And an axe about to fall,
Harry
- On one unsuspecting fellow.
Everyone
- In the middle of it all,
- In England,
- In May,
- With the day already gone.
- Something funny, funny, very, very funny,
- Is going on.
Act-2
Reprise...
Woman screams
Everyone
- Something funny's going on,
- Now the plot is moving faster.
Harry
- With a hero on the run,
Rita
- And a woman with a gun,
Annabel
- And an ending with a twist,
Vinnie
- And a brother who is pissed.
Everyone
- And a possible disater.
- Now the fun's already gone,
- And the intermission's through.
- Something funny's going on...
- Act-2!