Friday, October 24, 2025
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.
Perf…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:18PMThursday, October 16, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:40PMSunday, September 28, 2025
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.
https://…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:59PMSaturday, September 20, 2025
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 off…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:05PMMonday, September 15, 2025
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 there, so…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:58AMThursday, August 14, 2025
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?ref=ppx_…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:49AMFriday, August 8, 2025
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 vide…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:13PMSaturday, June 28, 2025
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 One…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:59AMMonday, June 2, 2025
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 re…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:35AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
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 production…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:39PMTuesday, May 13, 2025
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, the Pres…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:26PMMonday, May 5, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:45AMFriday, May 2, 2025
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.be/R…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:34AMTuesday, April 15, 2025
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.com/watc…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:08AMSaturday, April 5, 2025
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 shows.
N…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:08AMFriday, March 28, 2025
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 02:54PMSaturday, March 22, 2025
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 K…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:44AMSunday, March 9, 2025
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 where w…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:41AMMonday, March 3, 2025
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 Oscars…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:26AMThursday, February 27, 2025
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 thanks to Shere…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:10AMThursday, February 20, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:35AMSunday, February 16, 2025
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-tribut…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:12AMFriday, February 14, 2025
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 playing o…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:55PMTuesday, February 11, 2025
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” …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:19PMFriday, December 27, 2024
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 cre…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:06AMSaturday, December 7, 2024
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 m…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:43PMTuesday, November 26, 2024
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 Times…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:44AMWednesday, November 20, 2024
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 "misunderstood"…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:58PMTuesday, November 5, 2024
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 everywhe…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:00AMSunday, October 27, 2024
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" - paro…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:48AMWednesday, October 16, 2024
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 a …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:36PM 
