Best "Meta" Songs About Broadway/Acting

Question for the Hive Mind...

What are the best "Meta" songs about Broadway/Hollywood (acting, auditions, etc)

I'm looking for group songs, trios, duets, solos... funny is best!

Here's a starter list:

GROUP

A Musical Something Rotten!

The Greatest Show The Greatest Showman

Broadway Here I Come Smash

It's Not Just For Gays Anymore Tony Awards – Neil Patrick Harris et.al.

Untitled Opening Number Title Of Show

I Hope I Get It A Chorus Line

Show People Curtains

You Gotta Get a Gimmick Gypsy

Comedy Tonight A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Brush Up Your Shakespeare Kiss Me Kate

An Original Musical title of show



VINTAGE

There’s No Business Like Show Business Annie Get Your Gun

Give My Regards to Broadway Yankee Doodle Dandy

Lullaby of Broadway 42nd Street

That's Entertainment The Band Wagon

Broadway Baby Follies

42nd Street 42nd Street

Another Op'nin', Another Show Kiss Me, Kate



SOLOS

Rose's Turn Gypsy

And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going Dreamgirls

I'm Still Here Follies

As If We Never Said Goodbye Sunset Boulevard

Let Me Be Your Star Smash

Dance: Ten; Looks: Three (Tits and Ass) A Chorus Line

Cabaret Cabaret

I Wanna Be a Producer The Producers

I Want To Go To Hollywood Grand Hotel

Mr Tanner Laura Benanti

The Late Late Show Do Re Mi

Copacabana Boy From Oz

Quiet Please There's A Lady Onstage Boy From Oz

When I Get My Name In Lights Boy From Oz

Climbing Uphill The Last Five Years

Why Tick, Tick... Boom!

Applause Applause

The Glamorous Life A Little Night Music

It's a Business Curtains

Welcome to the Theater Applause



HUMOR

Divas Lament: Whatever Happened Spamalot

I Like Musicals Laura Benanti

Alto's Lament Marcy Heisler & Zina Goldrich

I'm Gonna Like This Play Eli Bolin (done by Abraham Lincoln)

Musical Theatre Boys Cinco Paul [DUET]

The Understudy Bobby Cronin

Updated On: 1/27/19 at 02:53 PM

Thanks, knew I had forgotten about "Fame Becomes Me"... some great stuff there

The Ingenue (music by Wally Harper, lyrics by David Zippel), sung by Barbara Cook on her "It's Better with a Band" recording.

Thanks to those who have responded so far. I expected a lot of interesting responses as greensgreens suggested, but think this thread got lost in all the Rent hoopla! ;P

Do What I Do from In Transit

The MOST meta of all meta songs has to be THE SONG THAT GOES LIKE THIS from SPAMALOT.

I would also include WITH ONE LOOK from SUNSET BLVD

There are entire shows that are built on a Meta foundation: SPAMALOT, BOOK OF MORMON and SOMETHING ROTTEN all constantly comment on themselves and the conventions of Broadway and actors. I happen to love MORMON, get a kick out of SPAMALOT...and, well, there's SOMETHING ROTTEN.

Updated On: 1/30/19 at 11:27 PM

There's a Cabaret song called "A Contemporary Musical Theatre Song" that pokes fun at the music of Jason Robert Brown, Kitt & Yorkey, and Joe Iconis that's pretty fun.