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There were lots of parody writers in cabarets and on the net taking gleeful advantage of Forbidden Bway's three years off to try our hands at the silliness of the theatre goings-on.
I compiled a blog of some of my own (with some terrific collaborators) that I thought were fun on topics that seemed hot on the chat boards in 2009-11.
THE YOUTUBE LINKS ARE AT MY BLOGSPOT AT
http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-look-back-at-theater-spoofs-2009-2011.html
AS A TEASER TO GET YOU TO GO TO THE LINK, HERE'S A LIST OF SOME OF THE FUN TOPICS
THAT WE KIDDED THAT ARE LINKED ON THE BLOG:
The Speed the Plow sushi scandal, about Jeremy Piven suddenly quitting the show in 2009
Hair - Diane Paulus - Will Swenson, audience participation, the cast invades the audience!
A Little Site Music, Every Day a Little Net - Catherine & Angela sell out - the house, that is!
Hugh Jackman on Broadway, I Go To Rio spoof
Priscilla Queen of the Desert / as producer Bette Midler protects her investors and does the talk shows (The Gross, to the tune of The Rose)
40 year lookback, I'm Still Queer 1969-2009, an authorized take-off on I'm Still Here
Come Fly Away's gratuitous and copious dis-robing "celebrated" in Fly Me In The Nude
Kristin Wants More! - "Kristin" begs Simon & Bacharach & David for more and more Promises songs (spoof of I Say a Little Prayer)
- also Knowing When to Close, Kristin "Knowing When to Leave" spoof as Promises Promises decides very publicly NOT to re-cast but end with a profit
John & Abigail Adams Family snap-along mash-up (in honor of Peter Marks Addams Family review in the form of a parody)
NY Times heard reports that Stritch's agents were making some odd requests from Night Music producers . We speculated on those demands!
Free Shakespeare With Al, also the Merchant producers beg Al Pacino to extend (Shylock, to tune of Skylark)
Losing My Sign, Henry Miller Theatre becomes the Sondheim Theatre! Henry Miller's ghost takes note!
On a Clear Day He'll Be She Forever sex change - What did I Have I Don't have Now spoof
also: a few of our more quickly put-out, off the cuff parodies are linked on the blog as well
I'd Rather a Jew - Funny Girl casting
Pray for Grosses - Donny & Marie 2010 Christmas show Paper Roses spoof
Carrie Fisher pricing spoof
Broadway roles for Betty White (Great Auntie Mame, Much Older Sally in Follies),
Book of MoreMoney to tune of South Park's Kyle's Mom is a Bitch
The Mother With the Hat - the only YouTube spoof we know of about that title
And a couple of regional parodies:
- Actors playing instruments in Ten Cents A Dance at Williamstown & McCarter got Ben Brantley raving and us spoofing!
- the Arena Stage up-to-date Oklahoma on the way to New York, per the Times?- is it R&H for the 21st century?
Finale: Parody/Salute to Hamlisch & Kleban - What I Did Got Snubbed (Kiss the Dough Goodbye)
FRED LANDAU's work from ACROSS STATE LINES got him a Finalist slot in the 2010 Fred Ebb Award competition for theater writing. He wrote book for THE LAST STARFIGHTER (Storm Theatre; NYMF); also book/score for THE HAPPIEST OF TIMES (Triangle Theater, workshops BMI, ASCAP, Circle Rep). He was a speaker at Seattle’s Village Theatre on the Movies to Musicals trend. His YouTube parody work was excerpted on CNN (American Morning, AC360, Situation Room). In praising Fred’s work on HAPPIEST OF TIMES at ASCAP, critic/historian Martin Gottfried said the work “was defined by the invention of its creators. It sounded like itself and like nothing else…They invented their own language for musical theater and it had nothing to do with anything else that I’ve seen, really, in term of musical theater.” Fred graduated from Harvard Law School & has a masters from NYU Law School. Projects include VIVA MAX!, co-author of a musical based on Jim Lehrer's novel; and THEATER SQUAWK, an irreverent (within reason) musical parody kidding the Haskins-Riedel Theater Talk series. Fred's youtube work can be found by searching "fred landau" at youtube.com.
Posted: 9/16/12 at 11:17pm
There were lots of parody writers in cabarets and on the net taking gleeful advantage of Forbidden Bway's three years off to try our hands at the silliness of the theatre goings-on.
I compiled a blog of some of my own (with some terrific collaborators) that I thought were fun on topics that seemed hot on the chat boards in 2009-11.
THE YOUTUBE LINKS ARE AT MY BLOGSPOT AT
http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-look-back-at-theater-spoofs-2009-2011.html
AS A TEASER TO GET YOU TO GO TO THE LINK, HERE'S A LIST OF SOME OF THE FUN TOPICS
THAT WE KIDDED THAT ARE LINKED ON THE BLOG:
The Speed the Plow sushi scandal, about Jeremy Piven suddenly quitting the show in 2009
Hair - Diane Paulus - Will Swenson, audience participation, the cast invades the audience!
A Little Site Music, Every Day a Little Net - Catherine & Angela sell out - the house, that is!
Hugh Jackman on Broadway, I Go To Rio spoof
Priscilla Queen of the Desert / as producer Bette Midler protects her investors and does the talk shows (The Gross, to the tune of The Rose)
40 year lookback, I'm Still Queer 1969-2009, an authorized take-off on I'm Still Here
Come Fly Away's gratuitous and copious dis-robing "celebrated" in Fly Me In The Nude
Kristin Wants More! - "Kristin" begs Simon & Bacharach & David for more and more Promises songs (spoof of I Say a Little Prayer)
- also Knowing When to Close, Kristin "Knowing When to Leave" spoof as Promises Promises decides very publicly NOT to re-cast but end with a profit
John & Abigail Adams Family snap-along mash-up (in honor of Peter Marks Addams Family review in the form of a parody)
NY Times heard reports that Stritch's agents were making some odd requests from Night Music producers . We speculated on those demands!
Free Shakespeare With Al, also the Merchant producers beg Al Pacino to extend (Shylock, to tune of Skylark)
Losing My Sign, Henry Miller Theatre becomes the Sondheim Theatre! Henry Miller's ghost takes note!
On a Clear Day He'll Be She Forever sex change - What did I Have I Don't have Now spoof
also: a few of our more quickly put-out, off the cuff parodies are linked on the blog as well
I'd Rather a Jew - Funny Girl casting
Pray for Grosses - Donny & Marie 2010 Christmas show Paper Roses spoof
Carrie Fisher pricing spoof
Broadway roles for Betty White (Great Auntie Mame, Much Older Sally in Follies),
Book of MoreMoney to tune of South Park's Kyle's Mom is a Bitch
The Mother With the Hat - the only YouTube spoof we know of about that title
And a couple of regional parodies:
- Actors playing instruments in Ten Cents A Dance at Williamstown & McCarter got Ben Brantley raving and us spoofing!
- the Arena Stage up-to-date Oklahoma on the way to New York, per the Times?- is it R&H for the 21st century?
Finale: Parody/Salute to Hamlisch & Kleban - What I Did Got Snubbed (Kiss the Dough Goodbye)
FRED LANDAU's work from ACROSS STATE LINES got him a Finalist slot in the 2010 Fred Ebb Award competition for theater writing. He wrote book for THE LAST STARFIGHTER (Storm Theatre; NYMF); also book/score for THE HAPPIEST OF TIMES (Triangle Theater, workshops BMI, ASCAP, Circle Rep). He was a speaker at Seattle’s Village Theatre on the Movies to Musicals trend. His YouTube parody work was excerpted on CNN (American Morning, AC360, Situation Room). In praising Fred’s work on HAPPIEST OF TIMES at ASCAP, critic/historian Martin Gottfried said the work “was defined by the invention of its creators. It sounded like itself and like nothing else…They invented their own language for musical theater and it had nothing to do with anything else that I’ve seen, really, in term of musical theater.” Fred graduated from Harvard Law School & has a masters from NYU Law School. Projects include VIVA MAX!, co-author of a musical based on Jim Lehrer's novel; and THEATER SQUAWK, an irreverent (within reason) musical parody kidding the Haskins-Riedel Theater Talk series. Fred's youtube work can be found by searching "fred landau" at youtube.com.
Updated On: 9/17/12 at 11:17 PM
