Hi-diddle-dee-dee
Audio blog snippet
In the cartoon retelling of Carlo Collodi’s coming of age story, a fox named Honest John leads a wooden boy named Pinocchio down the road to ruin. He sings “Hi-diddle-dee-dee, an actor’s life for me,” emphasizing many of the cliches – celebrity, prosperity, debauchery – that non-actors associate with professional theater. (Read entire blog entry as PDF.)