I have only recently discovered industrial musicals from the past which were private shows for corporations. I would love to see the staging of an industrial musical with songs/clips from a number of shows. I think this show would be a success. Some of the songs from the industrial musicals are really good. Whenever I need a laugh, I listen to "My Bathroom is a Private Kind of Place".
The closest thing we've seen to an industrial musical in a while is the NBC "Brotherhood of Man" commercial with the entire NBC stable singing and dancing at the Super Bowl to introduce their new season. Part commercial, part industrial musical, part satire on NBC's perpetual failing ratings.
I fairly certain these still have happen at many large banks. They have like "wow" Award appreciation days for their best and brightest. I kind of remember my friend being in one.
If you folks have read Everything's Coming Up Profits or heard the NPR "Fresh Air" piece with the author, you might also be interested in knowing that there are now multi-volume collections of songs from these shows available on iTunes. Look for "The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals" to find them, and enjoy!
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.