musicals that make fun of musicals
musicals that make fun of musicals
MaryMag
Understudy Joined: 7/11/05
#1musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/1/08 at 12:52am
Hello friends that have a much better knowledge of musical theater than me. Help me out?
I'm looking for musicals that make fun of themselves and the conventions of musical theater, similar to forbidden broadway, urinetown, and spamalot.
#2re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/1/08 at 12:55am
Well the obvious choice it The Musical Of Musicals. It mocks several genres in 3 different segments.
And [title of show] has a lot of inside jokes.
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#3re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/1/08 at 1:05amDrowsy Chaperone
East Village
Leading Actor Joined: 9/23/07
#4re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/1/08 at 1:07am
Urinetown and The Producers
Even though I didn't see it, I've heard the original production of Grease was a lot more self-aware and mocking then the productions that came after the movie.
#5re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/1/08 at 2:23amCurtains.
#6re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/1/08 at 12:25pm
i think xanadu just makes fun of... life. haha
um avenue q a little bit?
parts of spamalaot
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)
#7re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/1/08 at 12:27pmI hate to say this (because I didn't like the show), but Passing Strange does it at a number of points- mostly Stew's narration.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#8re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/1/08 at 12:29pm
'Ruthless'
They actually have a song called "I Hate Muscials".
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#10re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/1/08 at 2:01pm
Kiss Me Kate
Mame (Vera Charles' "The Man in the Moon" number)
#11re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/2/08 at 1:00pmI think "The Boyfriend" was also said to be a spoof of the 1920s musicals.
#12re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/2/08 at 1:20pmBatBoy
#14re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/2/08 at 4:45pmSpamalot makes fun of PTO, Company, West Side Story, and some others that I cant remember right now
#15re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/2/08 at 5:11pm
"I think "The Boyfriend" was also said to be a spoof of the 1920s musicals."
Yup, it is. I was in it and we were consistently reminded of this.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#16re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/2/08 at 6:29pmPippin makes fun as well of conventins in musical comedy.
dramagirl487
Featured Actor Joined: 2/19/08
#17re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/2/08 at 7:43pm
Forbidden Broadway of course.
spamalot, and Curtains.
phantom a little bit, with the whole Carlotta diva thing.
#19re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/2/08 at 9:04pm
[title of show]
AMAZING musical commentary!
#20re: musicals that make fun of musicals
Posted: 3/2/08 at 9:14pm
The Musical of Musicals: The Musical is a pretty friggin great one. It tells one story: a woman can't pay her rent, is harassed by the evil landlord, gets advice from her older friend/confidante, and then is saved by the handsome leading man. But the story is told 5 different ways with 5 different composers and the style that they do their shows: Rodgers and Hammerstein ("Corn!"), Stephen Sondheim ("A Little Complex"), Jerry Herman ("Dear Abby!"), Andrew Lloyd Webber ("Aspects of Junita"), and Kander and Ebb ("Speakeasy").
Many, many, many, many references to musical theatre and those composers shows. Some pretty broad, others rather obscure. My favorite joke is in regards to ALW's style, the narrator says the stage direction: The set changes to Junita's boyfriend Billy's apartment. The audience applauds....the set change.
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