 Remembering my dear late aunt Sarah Friedler on her birthday, here in this photo with my dad, my brother and me at what seems to be my nephew David Landau's bris in 1988. My aunt and …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:51PM[SHARE]If you're in the mood for holiday music you've never heard before, this is my tribute to New York in the shopping and tree lighting time of year. Hope you like it, whatever you celebrate!"I…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:42AM[SHARE] Here's a new draft of the description about the value of parody for the upcoming volume 6  of 21ST CENTURY OLDIES: The First Quarter Century, 2001-2025. More about Volume 6 is hereÂ�…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:46PM[SHARE] With Rep. Dean Phillips (who is Dear Abby's grandson - really!) officially running for President, I figured why not revive this proposed (not really!) pitch "DOWNTOWN ABBY / UPT…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:51AM[SHARE]Â If you've started looking for musical material for the holiday season's performances: Here's KRINGLE LADIES: Â PUT FIVE GOLDEN RINGS ON IT, a parody of SINGLE LADIES Â -Â http://…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:59AM[SHARE]Remembering Marie Curie's birthday (Nov. 7) with a musical comedy salute:  In 2019, Kate Mulgrew was back onstage, at the Minetta Lane, as a rival for Mme. Curie's heart in off-Broadwa…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:34PM[SHARE] FREE GIVEAWAY IN THE U.S. (EVEN POSTAGE IS FREE IN THE U.S.) I've been writing parody lyrics almost every day usually based on Times news stories or politics, and putting them i…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:56AM[SHARE]For Valentine's Day: original non-parody theater love songs "Brooklyn Boy" https://youtu.be/XiQRDVKvf5Q "I Look Into Those Eyes" https://youtu.be/5HcENPH12UU "Is It Mushy to Say I L…
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SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:22PM[SHARE]Â Blank Canvas Theatre in Cleveland updated its site for the full company list of "The Last Starfighter" http://www.blankcanvastheatre.com/the-last-starfighter-cast/ Please let your frien…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:07AM[SHARE] Our show "The Last Starfighter" will have its Cleveland premiere at the Blank Canvas Theatre in Dec. 2022. Please let your friends in the Cleveland area know.  http://www.blankcanv…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:03PM[SHARE]Counting down to  High Holy Days:  this blog's tradition "I Will Survive" parody "I'll be Inscribed"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTuhLayowQsung by  Jan Horvath Feel free to use …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:14PM[SHARE]With "Take Me Out" coming back again -Â Reprising "Everyone Goes" from the tribute to the original run of TAKE ME OUT https://youtu.be/CIrsCaiRLNg parody of "Anything Goes" Saw TAKE M…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:30PM[SHARE]Two highlighted numbers at https://youtu.be/hLFfOPBzmagMore demos from this show at https://youtu.be/0ha6R1Z2yQo and https://youtu.be/_vLnGZVtRc4A FAMILY MUSIC  script - UPDATED A…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:46PM[SHARE]Â 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. AIMING TO DO THESE AS A…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:44PM[SHARE]Ready to snap? Â 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 05:31PM[SHARE]Â Lookback in honor of the deserved Tony win for "Lehman Trilogy" AIG-LEHMAN BAILOUT PARODY SONG I NEED ME A LOAN (tune of LEAVE ME ALONE) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha8Q2KHzuME …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:26AM[SHARE]Some Tony-lookback parody thoughts: The Broadway "Lehman Trilogy" gave you 3 parts in 180 minutes, "The Lehman Eulogy" musical gives you 5 parts in 8 minutes https://youtu.be/K…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:10AM[SHARE]As Barry Manilow- Bruce Sussman's musical about the Harmonists gets reviews seeming worthy of a Broadway step-up [Note re questions about the ocean shots: Thought it would be fun or funny to…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:44PM[SHARE]Getting ready just in case - for a Broadway where every night is a "covid-super-spreader" event I've been ready with this pitch that your premium seat offers an optional limo to the premium…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:11PM[SHARE]Â Parody of I'D RATHER BE BLUE -Â "live from the Erasmus High School Bar in Brooklyn" "I'D RATHER A JEW OVER YOU" - ERASMUS GUYS SEE THE TV COMMERCIAL AND ARE RELIEVED THE NEW "FUNNY …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:02AM[SHARE]Â As James Earl Jones has a Broadway theater named for him!!! An encore of DARTH OF YOUR WORLD -Â Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBgUp7OrFbk
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:56PM[SHARE]Lookback to SO MUCH BUTTER for a fictitious PAULA DEEN STORY - as in TAP DANCE KID, Encores relived the infamous NO HEAVY ACTRESSES casting notice from GOLDEN APPLE. Â No insensitivity "m…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:57AM[SHARE]Â Remembering the great artist Meat Loaf the only way this blog really can. Â The first time I saw him in a Broadway show was a small role in Gower Champion's production "Rockabye Hamlet…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:44AM[SHARE] Here's 2021 lookback, Part 2: June to Dec. 2021 We'd loved New York in June!  There had been so much hope for Broadway re-open, but that was 7 months ago, we doubt that anyone…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:47AM[SHARE] 2021 as reflected in our mostly-theater/cabaret blog - part 1 of 2: January through May 2021 This felt like an overall Broadway theme for 2021, that even the hopeful people w…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:28AM[SHARE]Â Now it seems unruly airline passengers are in the news! In FLYING WITH THESE LOONS (the sequel to the TSA-security number "Fly me in the Nude") "Frankie" is on the plane and gets susp…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:13AM[SHARE]Â Celebrating Natalie Mendoza's performance at the Macy's Parade. Â Her Satine in "Moulin Rouge" is a decade after her accident in "Spider Man." Â Never imagined "Moulin Rouge" looki…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:47PM[SHARE]Will a Sondheim show finally go mega-premium? Â Let's make a wish! Â "Another 100 Patti Fans Got Off Of Their Phones" Â In the 2010s, we saw million-dollar weeks for the FOLLIES reviv…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:39AM[SHARE]Â This apparently has never happened before that the cover of VOGUE in the US and UK are the same person, but it is now and the press says it's a big deal. (AND for show tune lovers, Adel…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:44PM[SHARE] For Halloween:  Recalling our exclusive with The Ghost of Alan Jay Lerner back when he haunted the "On A Clear Day" Vassar rewrite. "What Did It Lack That It Has Now?"- Lerner c…
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