I recorded a short bit off an FM station in Los Angeles many years ago
( how's that for being specific and detailed?)  I would like you to
identify the piece  (name and type of production, producer, actors,
dates), or enough information so that I can purchase a copy in
whatever format it may be available.  I have transcribed the words to
the best of my ability, and I have them in a Word Document which I
will email upon request unless the following is enough for
identification:

Men are beasts, They'll never understand us, what men among them try,
they think us wise for having them and foolish otherwise.  They cannot
read the signals we send them with our eyes they'll never understand
us, they'll never understand.  They'll never make us happy, they'll
always make us feel, a little more than useless, a little less than
real.  However long we hold them, with all our soft appeal, they'll
never understand us, they'll never understand...

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Clarification of Question by dektol-ga on 29 Apr 2003 10:57 PDT

The segment I recorded was not recent.  It is possibly 20 years old or
more.

Additional transcription:

Male actor:  Not to you, not to you, not to you..... (applause)

Female actor:  You would like me to believe tat I am not wanted here.

Male:  Insufferable

Female:  Insufferable

Male: I'll leave myself

Female:  Let him go.

Male Madame, you could exasperate a stone.

Female:  Men are beasts, women ought to keep them chained.  They were
beasts before..????  and beasts they have remained.

( following this discourse is the refrain "They'll never understand
us".)

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Clarification of Question by dektol-ga on 07 May 2003 09:01 PDT

The music sounds like live full orchestra and the style is Musical
Comedy.  Here is the third verse:

They'll never understand us
They'll live their little lives
Pretending not to notice
Our disenchanted lives
And if one day we leave them
They're taken by suprise
They'll never understand us
They'll never understand

Applause

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Clarification of Question by dektol-ga on 07 May 2003 09:10 PDT

Sorry that I can not identify the style better, I am not knowledgeable
in the area of presentation styles.  If you give me some choices I may
be able to pick one out.  It is most likely from the 60's thru 70's
somewhere.  Not much help I guess.  An adaptation of Lyistrata is a
good guess from the tone and scarcasm but I would like a better
recording of the sound track since I have just one song and that is a
poor recording from broadcast radio.  I don't even know the station
but it may have been from USC University in Los Angeles.  The female
vocal was mature so probably not a student production.

Can a sound file be attatched to this question ?  If so, How ?

JK

The subject matter reminds me of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata", so I
wonder if you may have heard a broadcast of a musical adaptation of
this play?
There are several:
http://www.theatermania.com/news/reviews/index.cfm?story=2317&cid=12
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/living/5352664.htm or
http://www.fwweekly.com/issues/2003-03-20/stage.html

What style was the accompanying music?