Bway spoofs blog 2009-2011 look-back compilation

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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

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Posted: 9/16/12 at 11:18pm

This may be interesting...

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Posted: 9/16/12 at 11:21pm

The links are at the blog or you can link from here:

SPEED THE PLOW, JEREMY PIVEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wFvpx3q6vI sung by Shauna Hicks

THE CAST OF "HAIR" INVADING THE AUDIENCE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQQnN5liEAw sung by Leenya Rideout

MINI-MUSICAL "A LITTLE SITE MUSIC, OR EVERY DAY A LITTLE NET"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2mMKTJhdMc sung by Jan Horvath

and A Little Site Music ACT TWO IS AT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iVjlnbTx1g

I GO TO RIO - Hugh Jackman on Broadway parody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPa84ySiryA sung by Jan Horvath

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT - tune of THE ROSE as Bette gets on the talk shows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5CCbK-Qvoc sung by Jan Horvath

"I'M STILL QUEER" -COVERING 40 YEARS OF THEATRE TUNE OF "I'M STILL HERE"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt40nQGc1I4 sung by William Parry

LOOKING FOR A WAY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THE DISROBING IN TWYLA THARP'S SINATRA SHOW "COME FLY AWAY" - HERE'S "FLY ME IN THE NUDE"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn3AcCmPL00

ADDITION OF SONGS TO “PROMISES” TO LENGTHEN KRISTIN PART
- Affectionate Kristin parody, of “I Say A Little Prayer”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4srdnbhOYs4 sung by Jan Horvath

EVERYONE WAS DOING ADDAMS FAMILY THEME SONG PARODIES, EVEN THE WASHINGTON POST CRITIC - So we did a snap-along John & Abigail Adams Family Theme ("1776" mash-up)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bUcJKIYFyw

NY TIMES ANNOUNCEMENT THAT ELAINE STRITCH HAD CERTAIN “REQUIREMENTS” TO APPEAR IN A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC prompted some humorous looks online at what those might be. A low-tech take on one of those silly hypothetical lists of supposed demands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgev_fewvlQ

FREE SHAKESPEARE WITH AL – Al Pacino in Merchant of Venice, at that time for FREE
, as people line up in Central Park, to tune of FOR ME AND MY GAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qahNQd9M6c0

CAN NEVER EVER GET ENOUGH OF THE GREAT ELAINE STRITCH, so we wondered (to a parody of ZIP! called SIT!) how she copes sitting for eight performances a week, three hours at a clip – as she strives to be the very best Mme. Armfeldt ever;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXbEVQKSPo0

IN SUMMER 2010, SPECULATION OF WHO MIGHT REPLACE SEAN HAYES & KRISTIN CHENOWETH in “PROMISES PROMISES” was big chat fodder.
KNOWING WHEN TO CLOSE, another affectionate Kristin parody, of Knowing When to Leave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf_ZsvMCZTo sung by Jan Horvath

As the Henry Miller Theatre is re-named for the great Stephen Sondheim,
we speculated on Henry Miller’s ghost reconciling himself with the name change
LOSING MY SIGN, parody of LOSING MY MIND from FOLLIES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phlrsBx23O0

Al Pacino’s transfer to Broadway was big box office, the producers trying to get him to extend
SHYLOCK, a parody of SKYLARK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATx9lb04HIw sung by Jan Horvath

We tried a regional theater parody – A fun bit of news because friends work at the Arena at times was that the Arena Stage’s production of OKLAHOMA! managed to come into the “nationsl spotlight” with a rejuvenating production of the show. It hasn’t come to NYC, but the attention for Arena was great news!
EVERYTHING’S UP TO DATE AT THE ARENA,
parody of KANSAS CITY from OKLAHOMA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kIMKGkAaRM

A WHAT DID I HAVE THAT I DON'T HAVE audio parody, Alan Jay Lerner's ghost hanging out at Vassar as CLEAR DAY did its tryout in summer 2010 (it had looked promising there and at Vineyard, very surprised later on that it ultimately didn't gel finally, but maybe there will be another chance) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt9VtE_1TY8

And some others (these videos were often more quickly done, though) mostly from later in the period:

I’D RATHER A JEW – Funny Girl casting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2w4qioo5Jg

AUDIO ONLY – DONNY & MARIE ON BROADWAY
“PRAY FOR GROSSES” (tune of Paper Roses)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trjQcXLF6ww

The pricing at Carrie Fisher’s WISHFUL DRINKING
Parody of “King of Wishful Thinking”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S4STdq9KtU

Roles for Betty White #1: “Great Auntie Mame”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ados3loEZBs

Roles for Betty White #2: “Much Older Sally”- IN BETTYS EYES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rYtD0aXwVo (feat. Mary Jay singing "Betty White")

BOOK OF MoreMONEY
Tune of “KYLE’s MOM’s a B*TCH” from “South Park”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmNU8wCzBfc

THE MOTHERF**ER WITH THE HAT
“The Mom With the Hat” – the perfect show for Mother’s Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3LEsRfbpMk

Regional parody of “Ten Cents a Dance”
(actors playing instruments)
IT PAYS THE RENT, I DON’T MIND
(parody of IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtFGyZGDDCM


Parody of WHAT I DID FOR LOVE (KISS THE DOUGH GOODBYE)
WHAT I DID GOT SNUBBED - writer's anthem: Kleban parody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZn00NbxLbM




Updated On: 9/16/12 at 11:21 PM