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…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:54PMSome 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 K…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:44AMAs 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 where w…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:41AMWith 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 Oscars…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:26AMWHAT 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 thanks to Shere…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:10AMA 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…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:35AMInspired 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-tribut…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:12AMPosting 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 playing o…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:55PMWith 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” …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:19PMThis 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 cre…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:06AMAlways 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 m…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:43PMThe 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 Times…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:44AMCelebrating 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 "misunderstood"…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:58PMSome 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 everywhe…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:00AMHalloween 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" - paro…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:48AMWith 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 a …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:36PMOur 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 Cleveland, and…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:09PMAsking 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 Co…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:48AMFor 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 when …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:34AMRemembering 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-that-…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:44AMSaluting 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 entertaining…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:03AMBroadway ticket prices hit a new high ($1400 - that was for EACH ticket) in July 2024. And that's buying from the box office, not scalpers. To either celebrate or commiserate, depending…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:42AMTrying to "glom on" to the current Mary Todd Lincoln frenzy on Broadway, re-booting our YouTube channel's "Mary Song" So in parody-tribute to "Oh, Mary!" - cheering on all the Marys in d…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:22AMAs the great Imelda Staunton takes on HELLO DOLLY in London This parody was of Imelda Staunton's "scorching Momma Rose" in GYPSY: SOME ROSES parody to "Some People" ("Some Roses have pass…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:24AMFor Gay Pride Parade Day: This was my “I’m Still Queer” -a parody-tribute of Stephen Sondheim's “I’m Still Here” looking at four decades of New York City theatergoing ht…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:41AMWith "A Little Night Music" opening at Lincoln Center tonight- At the beginning of this (first two minutes), "Every Day I'm on the Net" as Countess Charlotte longingly searches for reasona…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:36PMThis YouTube video was from Feb. 2020 - imagining what we'd guessed could be a real "premium decade" ahead. Then the huge financial success of the "Sweeney Todd" revival, and now t…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:35PMWith a new Covid variant seeming to be on its way four years later, Remembering on our parody-song timeline Our May 2020 seven-minute short parody-song musical film "When I'm…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:14AMLinking my blog's parody Mother's Day theater tradition: This was our "The Mom With the Hat"https://youtu.be/1_gG1vJGOFk (Music and lyric by Fred Landau) Remembering the ads for the controv…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:13AMIn parody-tribute to the new romantic comedy movie "Fly Me To The Moon" trailer being out - It feels like a good reason to re-boot my "rom-com-ish" Sinatra parody video "Fly Me in the Nude…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:46PMBecause 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. AIMING TO DO THESE AS A CA…
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