Shows that spoof other shows...

I hear ya. totally. I seriosuly cannot wait for the next completely original Broadway Musical. But apparently Audiences don't want that. Look at Brooklyn and In My Life. Both COMPLETELY original, yet nobody showed

I would rather see forbidden broadway than a Broadway show which spoofs, I agree its old and dull.

I dunno....If I see another "For Meeee!" joke, I'll scream. It's in Martin Short, Avenue Q, Hairspray....

I can understand shows (like Drowsy) that lift an entire musical style and play on it--pastiche musicals have been around forever. But yeah, it's starting to really get on my nerves when shows like Spamalot decide, out of the blue, to throw in a musical number that takes shots at other musicals. It's all in good fun, yes, but it's just not that clever. "The Song That Goes Like This" makes me laugh almost every time I listen to it, but it doesn't say anything new and that annoys me (that and the fact that I enjoy my 80s mega-musicals, thank you very much). Spoofs like that are cheap cop-outs that seem to be there only as a desperate attempt to add funny filler to a show. The same goes for pop culture and political references--they make me laugh, but unless the entire musical takes on pop culture or politics, the jokes are usually not clever and not very fair. A few well-placed jokes does not a good satire make.

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Updated On: 8/25/06 at 10:00 AM

Don't get me wrong, I laugh, too. But it's empty calories. Like white chocolate, yes it's delish, but it only makes me long for real chocolate, but it seems that they are only serving white chocolate these days because it's easy and seems to sell...Give me REAL chocolate any day.

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Eh, I probably laugh at spoofs more than I should. But I do adore Forbidden Broadway.

But certain times I think they are used intelligently--when they're not completely thrown in your face, here's obviously what we're spoofing. Like DRS has a line for My Fair Lady that so few people in the audience even realize.

But then Oklahoma? sure has the bit of "whoa" joke but the whole spoof some people don't realize right away. Jolene is just like Ado Annie; thinking someone wants to marry her who doesn't. I didn't realize it for a while.

I enjoy them more than most, but they could be more coyly done and more original maybe--not just spoofing the same thing like Ethel over and over.

Loved Musicals of Musicals: the Musical as well.

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If they're done well, as Drowsy Chaperone is, they aren't bad. However, I'm getting sick of them.

The problem is, these days Broadway musicals are, at least in our current culture, "un-hip". So one way musicals can look a bit more hip is to make fun of themselves, as if to say that they're in on the joke of simply being a Broadway musical.

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What's the DRS "Fair Lady" Line?

I believe it's "He's so deliciously low -- so horribly dirty."

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Well, there was a reason why nobody showed up to "Brooklyn".

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