Marc Shaiman's "Prop 8: The Musical"
Marc Shaiman's "Prop 8: The Musical"
Marc Shaiman's "Prop 8: The Musical"#1
Posted: 12/3/08 at 8:26am
Do yourself a favor and watch this.
Hairspray composer Marc Shaiman (whose boycott lead to the resignation of Sacramento's California Musical Theatre creative director Scott Eckern following his donation to Prop 
wrote and conceived this hysterical short piece (presented with a wink and a nod by the 'Sacramento Community College Players'), which was directed and staged by Hairspray director and choreographer Adam Shankman and features plenty of folks you will recognize.
Shaiman plays the piano. Jordan Ballard, Margaret Cho, Barrett Foa, J.B. Ghuman, John Hill, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, Rashad Naylor, Nicole Parker star as 'California Gays and The People That Love Them'. John C Reilly as a Prop 8 leader, and Alison Janney as his wife. Kathy Najimy as his second wife. Jenifer Lewis as a riffing Prop 8'er. Craig Robinson as a preacher. Rashida Jones, Lake Bell, Sarah Chalke as Scary Catholic School Girls from Hell. Katharine "Kooks" Leonard, Seth Morris, Denise "Esi!" Piane, Lucian Piane, Richard Read, Seth Redford, Quinton Strack, and Tate Taylor as The Frightened Villagers.
Jack Black stars as Jesus Christ, and Neil Patrick Harris is billed as 'A Very Smart Fellow'.
Prop 8: The Musical
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#2
Posted: 12/3/08 at 10:42amShrug. It was fun to see all the people, but I didn't think it was very funny.
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#3
Posted: 12/3/08 at 11:42amcute, but didn't like the message that the reason to accept it is for the Holy American dollar, rather than equal rights......
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#4
Posted: 12/3/08 at 11:45am
Elphaba, I was just thinking the exact same thing.
And the whole "well the bible also says..." is so old and stale. Everybody - Christian and non - knows that Leviticus admonishes a lot more than just say sex, but nobody cares.
Then again, this is just a preaching to the choir thing. It's not like anybody is going to watch this video and rethink their stance on gay rights.
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#5
Posted: 12/3/08 at 11:56amexactly....
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re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#6
Posted: 12/3/08 at 12:08pmIt didn't make me rethink anything except my position on Marc Shaiman.
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#8
Posted: 12/3/08 at 12:47pm
Loves it!!!
WTG Marc!!
--Aristotle
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#9
Posted: 12/3/08 at 12:50pm
J'adored it.
J'adored.
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#11
Posted: 12/3/08 at 1:39pm
Great opportunity to play 'spot the celebrity'.
But I'm still waiting for someone to sing a song that says, "even if you have an authenticated, witnessed letter, handwritten by god, dated today, that says nothing else is an abomination except gays, who definitely are, that the letter still does not allow you to take away my civil rights, cause your god is your problem."
I know it doesn't rhyme. But maybe Britney could sync it.
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#12
Posted: 12/3/08 at 2:25pmCouldn't agree more with Phyllis. It's pretty unfunny, yet I did find it lots of fun to watch, mostly because I can see Allison Janney do anything and love her, and Neil Patrick Harris is great too.
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#13
Posted: 12/3/08 at 2:31pm
Jesus Christ.
Who is it who wrote "Pick a little, post a little, pick a little, post a little, pick pick pick..."?
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#14
Posted: 12/3/08 at 2:49pmI thought it was pretty funny myself. The point: people will forgo their beliefs for money.
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
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re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#15
Posted: 12/3/08 at 2:50pm
Always fun to revisit this!
Pick a little, post a little . . .
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#16
Posted: 12/3/08 at 2:52pm
Oh, that's right, I knew it was familiar.
Something about this thread just called it to mind. Oh yeah, the pick pick pick.
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#17
Posted: 12/3/08 at 3:54pm
Phyllis and Ray--I'm surprised at your shrugs.
Have you never seen "The Pajama Game"?
"Steam Heat" is not about convincing management to give them a raise.
It's about energizing the union workers to rally behind their cause.
"COME ON, PEOPLE! GET HOT!"
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#18
Posted: 12/3/08 at 4:01pm
K. Well, in case you missed it, I'm already behind the cause, unless the cause is now that it's about economics. Then I'm not behind it, I guess.
At any rate, I still didn't think it was all that funny. Shrug.
Updated On: 12/3/08 at 04:01 PM
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#21
Posted: 12/3/08 at 4:26pmPJ, I'm firmly behind the cause, I just didn't think the writing was that funny (thank God for Allison Janney and Neil Patrick Harris though), especially since funnyordie.com is known for their rather hilarious stuff (Hayden Patteniere's "Vote for John McCain" was priceless, and Kristin Chenoweth's musical about meth was pure genius).
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#22
Posted: 12/3/08 at 4:55pm
Paris Hilton's thing was funny, too.
I sincerely apologize for once again not being in step with the gays on this board.
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#24
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:10pm
"I sincerely apologize for once again not being in step with the gays on this board."
Oh you do not. That's practically your calling card!
re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#25
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:12pm
You're right. I was just trying to be nice (which is NOT my calling card). I was originally going to say that I was sorry that the gays on the board take everything I dislike that they don't so personally.
Updated On: 12/3/08 at 05:12 PM
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re: Marc Shaiman's 'Prop 8: The Musical'#26
Posted: 12/3/08 at 5:37pmHow's the sand removal going?
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