Friday, 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 03:03PMMonday, September 7, 2020
A parody update as re-opening is in full swing, for better or maybe better not. Let's hope.
The one-minute opening from the 7-minute Labor Day sequel (coming soon) to our "When I''m St…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:58PMFriday, August 14, 2020
The Piaf forever stamp was 2012, and even then in that election year we were worried about how snail-like even "snail mail" was. The snail makes a guest appearance at 0:30 and this is be…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:36PMSaturday, August 8, 2020
Looking back ten years ago this week- one of the most successful replacement casts ever!
It's 10 years this week since one of the best reviewed and most surprisingly well-realized replac…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 01:10PMSaturday, July 4, 2020
"Firework, Moulin Rouge version" Parody-Tribute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNGZJrX81zc
[still just one Firework; they had to cut corners somewhere]
John and Abigail Adams Fa…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:46PMWednesday, May 13, 2020
Here's the video from the "Kiss me Kate" re-revisal - MJ plays "Bianca/Lois Lane," manning the desk for high-net-worth patients at the Upper East Side ER, putting VIP patients at ease tha…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:59PMSunday, April 12, 2020
Because sometimes the only way to not give up is to laugh, or burst into song. It doesn't make the problem go away, but it can help you face it better after you laugh or sing.
And it m…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:44AMWednesday, March 18, 2020
Some non-parody original theater songs, since it's tough to record new stuff right now in social distancing time
From the musical ACROSS STATE LINES (performed previously as The Octagon…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:18AMSunday, February 16, 2020
Type Our Troubles Away - the more good-natured full-song version
Parody of Encores' 2020 "Mack and Mabel” [or "Jack and MABEL"]
https://youtu.be/RafIinDbF5A
The earlier one-minute pre…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:34AMMonday, February 10, 2020
Hollywood Gown Oscars 2020 - based on Harriet Schock's song "Hollywood Town" https://youtu.be/1uQ_XPirkaMThis parody lyric Fred Landau- Video, edit and vocal Jan HorvathHollywood Gown Oscars…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:03PMMonday, January 20, 2020
The HOLLYWOOD GOWN SONG (short version) - SAG AWARDS 2020 - feat. Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's gownhttps://youtu.be/Zp58fA38qdoparody lyric by Fred Landauto Harriet…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:16PMMonday, November 25, 2019
The 2019-2020 season, what we have so far: Bat Out of Hell" - August-September 2019 at NY City Center
"Bat out of Hell" parody by Fred Landau and Jan Horvath
parody set to Jim Steinma…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:32AMMonday, September 16, 2019
"I'll Get You Kicked Out of Here" - cell phones in the theater - a now-I've-seen-it-all, don't-mess-with-me, world-weary parody of "I Get a Kick Out of You" (The parody is done here with …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:41AMSunday, May 12, 2019
Theater title lookback for Mother's Day:The devoted son who thought "The Mother With the Hat" was a perfect show to see with his Mom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_gG1vJGOFk
And
In …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:49PMMonday, June 18, 2018
The poster for our musical "The Last Starfighter"I just flew back from Seattle after the last rehearsal and then the first performance the other night!
photo with program just abov…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:09PMSunday, June 5, 2016
Since I'd been writing lyrics in the NY Times reader-comment section for a while, the Times asked me to write a "parody lyric" on the subject of the ArtsBeat column coming to an end after al…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:45PMFriday, April 29, 2016
I honor of the Royal Couple's 5th Anniversary -A look back at their first kiss 5 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O00tb72yXVUParody video, sung by Jan Horvath
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 01:07PMSunday, December 13, 2015
DRAFT AS OF SEPT 14, 2019Links to YouTube For the original Jan 2018 presentation version's "colorful characters highlights promo sampler" - https://youtu.be/F8t4Q9memhIand some more demo…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:12AMSunday, December 6, 2015
Links to YouTube For the original Jan 2018 presentation version's "colorful characters highlights promo sampler" - https://youtu.be/F8t4Q9memhIand some more demos are at https://youtu.…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 01:21PMWednesday, October 7, 2015
From the wonderful (and very useful) "New York Today" column in the NYTimes: “Residents in Queens want a new dog run, but not if it costs $1 million.”
Here's a parody-tribute: y…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:46AMSaturday, September 12, 2015
This seemed to go over a bit when I posted it in the NYT comments, my parody-tribute to the new apps for Fashion Week making it available to the whole city rather than the elite few.The actu…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:31AM 
