Before they head to the James Earl Jones Theatre, we caught up with Solea Pfeiffer, Liisi LaFontaine, Ledisi, and Bradley Jaden to learn which musicals are at the top of their list.
From our YouTube parody timeline:Finding a lighter musical side of the controversy over Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day. This asks the parody question: Even with the objections …
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-kSung by Neal MayerWe wrote that when asked t…
Celebrating the birthday this weekend (Aug. 9) of Whitney Houston the way our parody timeline usually celebrates birthdays - Here's a parody of the Whitney Houston classic "I Wanna Dance …
My July 4th theater parody tradition - The John and Abigail Adams Family Theme Song, which assumes some knowledge of the cast album of “1776”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bUcJKIYFyw
Looking back on some good times for my parodies ten years ago this week - New York Times editor Daniel McDermon asked me to write a parody lyric noting the last post of the Times' ArtsBeat…
Reprising our try at a MARY POPPINS/1776 mash-up, as we approach the U.S. 250th birthday The U.S. will celebrate our "Semiquincentennial" on July 4, 2026. There's still time to learn …
Looking back as we approach two decades of video parodies: Some of our most-viewed videosCarolina in the Morning parody on Gov. Mark Sanford scandal 135,000+. https://www.youtube.com/w…
 Celebrating the anniversary this week of the March 1987 filming in NYC of (IMHO) the most joyous 1980s pop music video, the seminal Whitney Houston classic "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (…
Some optimism for our "Last Starfighter" musical - an official "Last Starfighter" movie screenplay sequel, though in comic book form It's an official Last Starfighter sequel in comic book f…
 LOOKING BACK AT 2025: SOME PARODIES OF 2025 BROADWAY EVENTS JUST IN TIME - Since Jonathan Groff himself has such open fun making fun of his own sweating and spitting, we did a paro…
The idea of a Celine Dion parody show like TITANIQUE, that started small and (one assumes) is ready to charge Broadway premium prices of whatever the market will bear, is a joy to contemplat…
 Lin-Manuel Miranda is a really generous person, and will even give a nod to lesser-known writers, in much the same way that Stephen Sondheim did.  Even in responding to online comme…
 It's the 100th heavenly birthday of Kaye Ballard, who was the first person to record "Fly Me to the Moon" - which is one of my favorite songs ever to parody.  This is my Newark Airpo…
 Celebrating the birthday week of "Carolina in the Morning" writer Gus Kahn - From 2012 -"Nothing Makes me Gladder Than To Be an All-That-Chatter in the Morning"https://www.youtube.com/wa…
 Costs keep going up as overall profitability of Broadway for the investors looks less likely, and yet there's big money if a show has stars and the potential for screen and streaming. Pe…
With the affordability crisis being such a part of life (and the mayor race) in New York City, and meanwhile a three-actor Broadway play like "Art" having grossed $1.7-million last week, it …
 Here's "Comey, Make Believe" - Parody of "Only Make Believe" from SHOWBOAT POLITICS LOOKBACK TO WHEN PRES. TRUMP ACTUALLY CALLED JIM COMEY A "SHOWBOAT" This is the YouTube link. http…
 Considering the worldwide talent search promised by the new DREAMGIRLS - Do they really intend to do a revival without some really really big names in this mid-2020's star-crazy box…
 Some new parody YouTubes about goings-on in New York: Here's our YouTube for The Waldorf Astoria's $2-billion renovation/reimagining.  (As they say, a billion here, a billion the…
 Here's the Amazon link for my new (mainly theater-related) parody lyric book - the 6th book in my 21st Century Oldies parody lyric series https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLPRB2Z7?re…
 My new (mostly theater-related) parody lyric book coming soon - the 6th book in my "21st Century Oldies" series. More advance information is here, along with some promo parody vi…
 Starting to look back on the first quarter century on our YouTube parody timeline, gearing up for my upcoming parody lyric book 21st Century Oldies, The First Quarter Century: What a…
 A show tune parody lookback - On ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's apparent political comeback - There IS very real precedent for a Governor resigning in disgrace in a sex-related scandal where it …
 With the Tonys coming up, I offer our parody video rundown salute to the 2024-25 season's Tony nominations: OUR TOWN - Best Revival nominee - We didn't dare do a parody of this producti…
 In the "Presidents say the darnedest things" department - Here's our YouTube parody take on that "Kids can just have two dolls instead of 30 for Christmas" concept.  (At least, th…
A cautionary Broadway parody fable for anyone buying tickets to go to the theater with Mom for Mother's Day - Remembering the controversially-titled critically acclaimed Broadway play whose …
 In parody tribute to the reviews about Tony frontrunner (and Tony winner last year) Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin in "Just In Time," "Mack the Knife" Parody on YouTube https://youtu.…
For Katy Perry singing "What a Wonderful World" in space - Offering in tribute-parody a reprise of our 2025 regular-person take "What a One-Percent World!" https://www.youtube.co…
 Since arguably the biggest New York entertainment news story this past week has been Scott Rudin, Some of our respectful parody-tributes related to some of Scott Rudin's s…
Here's our "no bells and whistles" YouTube on the current Broadway screen star vehicles, on the huge grosses for limited run name-star vehicles Othello, Good Night and Good Luck and Glengarr…
Some of the YouTubes from this blog's Sondheim-themed parodies - remembering Mr. Sondheim on his birthday in the way this blog usually does  The producer of a few CDs I'd worked on, Bruce…
 As we're being reminded, this week is five years from when Covid hit us, and when on a theater-specific level, Broadway closed. This was my YouTube channel's musical snapshot of whe…
 With this year's Oscars notable for more men than usual dressing up in flashy finery - Thinking back to our channel's "Hollywood Gown" music video series, when one of the favorite Os…
 WHAT A ONE-PERCENT WORLD! https://youtu.be/5kjivj2eNMY Feb. 2025 parody version - Parody of the song WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD  Parody lyric by Fred Landau. Many t…
A possible "Mary Poppins"-"1776" parody crossover - Felt like an OK time to upload our YouTube to the upcoming 250th anniversary of U.S. independence! The U.S. will celebrate our "Semiquinc…
 Inspired by the recent Times article "Off Broadway, Labor Tension Heats Up" With many of today's off-Broadway tickets costing $400 to $500 and up - remembering in a musical parody-tr…
 Posting this at this time for both Bernadette Peters and Danny Burstein being back on Broadway in Sondheim shows -  This was a tribute to the glorious Danny Burstein going from playi…
With the new Hugh Jackman show setting records at Radio City Music Hall, reprising our parody-tribute to how we feel about buying pricy tickets to a Hugh Jackman show! "I RAID MY KEOGH" - pa…
 This is a weird situation that sure feels like gaslighting, someone trying to present an alternate reality: I'd posted some material about the original musical TANGLED WEBS which we'd c…
 Always seeking a theater-song lighter side - What is and isn't covered by health insurance has gotten into the news in such a strange dark way. Revisiting our parody where we imagine a…
 The reader-commenter reaction to last week's New York Times article on the obligatory Standing Ovation on Broadway makes this feel like a time to look back on when that subject was a Tim…
 Celebrating the WICKED movie and score this blog's way - with a sing-along parody YouTube - "Crying Poverty" to "Defying Gravity This parody takes the viewpoint of the "misunderst…
 Some theater-music Election Day parody silliness (to a Gershwin classic) Recalling four years ago, when the meme of "I voted twice today" seemed to be on silly badges and stickers everyw…
Halloween Parody tradition - some theater ghosts  The ghost of Henry Miller first gripes about his theatre being re-named for Sondheim, then comes to like the idea "Losing My Sign" - …
 With excitement building for the new Hugh Jackman show at Radio City, feels like a good time for a parody-tribute reminder of how we feel about buying tickets whenever Hugh Jackman does …
 Our musical THE LAST STARFIGHTER opened 20 years ago at New York's Storm Theatre, October 15 2004.  So many great memories!  The most recent production was in Dec. 2022 in Clevelan…
 Asking the parody question: When people disagree so strongly about honoring Columbus, do they still agree about wanting to keep the three-day weekend? "They're All Dissing Christopher …
 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-k Sung by Neal Mayer We wrote that w…
 Remembering Louis Armstrong on his birthday August 4, in my YouTube channel's way of remembering a classic recording - A parody of the feel-good WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD A feel-not-t…
 Saluting Celine Dion after her Olympics performance, the only way my blog and YouTube channel really can - and the City Center musical Bat Out of Hell - which besides being an entertaini…
