Sunday, October 3, 2021
The re-opening of Broadway was going so well, there had to be a wrench thrown in! So for those hungering for some negativity with the sunny ads for Broadway optimism. :)
With optimistic c…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:29PMWednesday, September 8, 2021
MAKE 'EM MASKS School Starts 2021 version
https://youtu.be/98SsvTrTkNQ Parody Lyric Fred Landau
Vocals and feat. Emily (MJ ) McAleesejergins Vocals producer KJ McAleesejergins. …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:18PMTuesday, September 7, 2021
For Rosh Hashanah
"Put Your Pain In the Hands of a Jew" - music by Skip Kennon, lyric by Fred Landauhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzpDsd_q-kSkip and I wrote this to submit for a show th…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:06PMWednesday, August 25, 2021
This was our musical about the Afghan war, a musical drama but as musicals mostly seem to need, always with a thought to leaving the audience with a feeling of recovery and optimism …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:35AMFriday, August 6, 2021
A Gov. Cuomo covid-era retrospective
NEW!
The Albany Interpreter in the little circle onscreen from the July 26 press conference -
explains Gov. Cuomo's "We Cannot Go Backwards" them…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:43PMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Starting with "The Lady With All the Answers" and "Closer Than Ever"
- Tribute Judith Ivey's lovely performance as Ann Landers / Eppie Lederer
DOWNTOWN ABBY / UPTOWN ANN LANDERS
ht…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:19AMSunday, July 18, 2021
CHAPEL OF LOVE parody -as NY ends virtual weddings
https://youtu.be/lRAouQwsP1E
Parody Lyric Fred Landau. Vocal-Vid.Sheree Sano
tribute to Corey Kilgannon's New York Times article
Wh…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:48PMSunday, July 4, 2021
Ready to snap? The 1776-Addams Family cross-over
"The John and Abigail Adams Family theme song" - as it might have been adapted by the writers of "1776"
https://youtu.be/4bUcJKIYFyw
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:05PMSaturday, June 26, 2021
SALUTE TO THE 2021-22 SEASON OPENINGS (PART 1)
(also a July 4 "1776" "Adams Family" cross-over)
Company
"Another Hundred Patti Fans Got Off Of Their Phones"
https://youtu.be/biOPO57uQ1…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:06PMFriday, June 4, 2021
HERE'S A RECAP:
Because although laughing and singing don't make a problem go away, they can help your outlook
And put you in frame of mind to deal with reality more clearly.
With hope we…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:46PMThursday, May 20, 2021
Dear Senators Skoufis, Kaplan and Hoylman,
It is heartening to read in the recent Forbes article that some of the abuses, like the pricing abuses, by Broadway producers that have come al…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:04PMSaturday, May 8, 2021
The ads 10 years ago for THE MOTHER WITH THE HAT
looked (to some chatters) like the perfect present for Mother's Day, and it cried out for a song.
https://youtu.be/1_gG1vJGOFk
Not a…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:20PMThursday, May 6, 2021
To mark a Broadway news week that will live in Covid history as EITHER (a) the lunacy OR (b) the audacity - of Cuomo's arbitrariness:
Cuomo proclaimed this week we are ready for full theat…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:10AMSaturday, April 17, 2021
Since its what's in theater news - lookback on parody-tributes of Rudin Company shows
Hello Dolly! - 2017
PUT ON YOUR TONY GOWN. https://youtu.be/hv4JujI26zM
The Music Man -
TILL WE …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 01:37PMThursday, April 15, 2021
Defying Gravity Parody FROM 2010 - Coincidentally , this is the first video we did after the destructive business gaslighting by then-Davenport Theatricals' Jen Tepper and Encores' videogr…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:20AMMonday, April 5, 2021
Urgent Parody update - and if anything can be called a parody emergency, this could be it:
Despite a gazillion (very rough estimate) coincidental similarities with Paul Zindel's play, "…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:30PMSunday, April 4, 2021
To join the celebration of the 50th birthday of FOLLIES -
both of these done by approval and arrangement with then-publisher Carlin America.
"I'm Still Queer" - This got into Michael M…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:04PMFriday, March 19, 2021
Mask Up For Shakespeare -
as the Delacorte announcement for Free Shakespeare this summer brings a very rare touch of optimism for live theater in NYC -
YouTube link is https://youtu.b…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:20PMThursday, February 18, 2021
Our Emmy-winning Gov. Cuomo featured in a take on "You're So Vain"
https://youtu.be/ewpDo0XSGlc
this lyric was first heard in our virtual revue
"Labor Day - The Re-opening"
https://you…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:53AMSaturday, February 13, 2021
For Valentine’s Day: original theater love songs
“Is It Mushy to Say I Love You” somehow passed 73,000 views
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZfjTLHl1s
"Brooklyn Boy"
https://yout…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:13AMFriday, January 29, 2021
This non-parody showtune number was on a sincere note. Any hope of us getting a 2021 Biden/Harris optimism like we had back in pust-crash January 2009 with Obama/Biden?
Back i…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:47AMWednesday, January 6, 2021
Oy, what a day! The slow progress of the vaccine may be less immediate, but maybe OK for a little morbid lightness.
"Vaccinating Rhythm" -
https://youtu.be/fgg2pGUmZXo
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:58PMFriday, December 25, 2020
Our year-end 2020 Blog Year in almost all show tune salutes
January
“The Hollywood Gown” series tried to pick up where it was interrupted in 2013 - Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:27PMThursday, December 24, 2020
In the Times obit, it's mentioned that Danny and Rebecca met on the show "Time and Again, " which Skip wrote with Jack Viertel, though they started dating the following year, (That pr…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:12PMFriday, December 11, 2020
An off-B'way parody-tribute: Saluting the Irish Rep with a pragmatic-in-2020 "Meet Me on Zoom in St Louis"
https://youtu.be/bBNVI5PCmiM"Have a Merry Distant Christmas (and Have it Yours…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:21AMSunday, December 6, 2020
A quick "Darth of Your World" - the parody asks: Will we ever get to see Darth Vader in "Disney's Star Wars" onstage?
https://youtu.be/zBgUp7OrFbk
R.I.P. David Prowse, the distinguished …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:25PMMonday, November 23, 2020
For the Rockefeller Center "scrawny Christmas tree" controversy. Is it really worse than any earlier trees before they were decorated, or is it just hitting us as sad because it's 2020. …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 01:36AMFriday, November 20, 2020
These were about trying to find socially distant versions of musicals, laughing because if you don't laugh you might despair.
"MY FAR LADY" The flower girl is given a mask sewn from…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:12AMSunday, October 18, 2020
On Ben Brantley's end of an era as Times critic: I celebrated my favorite Ben Brantley London Journal reviews:
This was about the London Journal on Imelda Staunton's scorched-earth Rose in…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:51AMSunday, September 27, 2020
Parody update - "Till There Is Hugh"
"TILL THERE IS HUGH" - parody lyric by Fred Landau about the Music Man ad - for social distance era.
This video is at https://www.youtube.com/watc…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:45AMWednesday, September 16, 2020
"I Will Survive" parody lyric by Fred Landau - "I'll be Inscribed":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTuhLayowQsungby Jan Horvath"Put Your Pain In the Hands of a Jew" - music by Skip Ke…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:03PM 
