Five years this week since Covid hit us, and on a theater-specific level, Broadway closed - "WHEN I'M STUCK AT HOME" - our 7-minute movie-musical by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:41am on March 9, 2025[SHARE]

Day after Oscars - Lookback to our HOLLYWOOD GOWN musical parody series - parody of the song HOLLYWOOD TOWN by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:26am on March 3, 2025[SHARE]

WHAT A ONE-PERCENT WORLD! - Feb. 2025 parody version by Fred Landau

  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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 7:10am on February 27, 2025[SHARE]

"SEMI-QUIN-CENTENNIAL"- for U.S. 250th B'DAY JULY 4 2026 - a "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" parody by Fred Landau

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 10:35am on February 20, 2025[SHARE]

Remembering what "Off-Broadway" used to mean - with many of today's off-B'way tickets costing $400 and up by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:12am on February 16, 2025[SHARE]

Reprising SALLY'S TALLEY'S FOLLIES now for Bernadette Peters & Danny Burstein both back on Broadway in Sondheim shows by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 7:55pm on February 14, 2025[SHARE]

With the new Hugh Jackman show setting records at Radio City, reprising our parody-tribute to the ticket prices! by Fred Landau

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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 6:19pm on February 11, 2025[SHARE]

A weird musical theater situation that sure feels like gaslighting, someone trying to present an alternate reality: by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:06am on December 27, 2024[SHARE]

Revisiting our parody - a money-minded Lois Lane from "Kiss Me Kate" at the Premium ER triage desk by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:43pm on December 7, 2024[SHARE]

Saluting the recent Times article on the obligatory Broadway standing ovation - "Chatting Is a Show's Best Friend" by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 5:44am on November 26, 2024[SHARE]

Celebrating the WICKED score with a sing-along parody YouTube - "Crying Poverty" to "Defying Gravity" by Fred Landau

  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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 8:58pm on November 20, 2024[SHARE]

Some theater-music Election Day parody silliness (to a Gershwin classic) - "Vote- and Do it Again" by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 8:00am on November 5, 2024[SHARE]

Halloween Parody tradition - some theater ghosts by Fred Landau

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" - …

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:48am on October 27, 2024[SHARE]

As ticket sales start for the new Hugh Jackman show at Radio City: I RAID MY KEOGH, parody of I GO TO RIO by Fred Landau

 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 …

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 3:36pm on October 16, 2024[SHARE]

Our musical THE LAST STARFIGHTER opened 20 years ago at New York's Storm Theatre by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:09pm on October 15, 2024[SHARE]

"They All Laughed" Gershwin parody - Disagreement about honoring Christopher Columbus, but how about keeping the 3-day weekend. by Fred Landau

  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 …

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 8:48am on October 2, 2024[SHARE]

For the coming Jewish New Year - this blog's show tune tradition by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:34am on September 4, 2024[SHARE]

Recalling Louis Armstrong on his birthday - Parody of the feel-good WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD, a feel-not-that-good WHAT A ONE-PERCENT WORLD by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:44am on August 4, 2024[SHARE]

Saluting Celine Dion after her Olympics performance, the only way my blog and YouTube channel really can by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:03am on July 27, 2024[SHARE]

As Broadway ticket prices hit amazing new highs in July 2024: Some of our parodies of premium prices by Fred Landau

Broadway 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, depen…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:42am on July 19, 2024[SHARE]

Trying to "glom on" to the Mary Todd Lincoln frenzy on Broadway, re-booting our channel's "Mary Song" by Fred Landau

Trying 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 …

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 8:22am on July 11, 2024[SHARE]

As the great Imelda Staunton starts HELLO DOLLY in London, recalling her "scorching Momma Rose" in GYPSY by Fred Landau

 As 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 pa…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:24am on July 7, 2024[SHARE]

For Pride Parade Day: reprising "I'm Still Queer" - Michael Musto in the Voice called it a "Hilarious Gay Spoof of 'I'm Still Here'" by Fred Landau

 For 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  https:…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:41am on June 30, 2024[SHARE]

With "A Little Night Music" opening at Lincoln Center tonight- reprising our "A Little Site Music" by Fred Landau

 With "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 reaso…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 2:36pm on June 27, 2024[SHARE]

Parody-Tribute to Sondheim premium pricing - "Another Hundred Millionaires Got Off of Their Phones"- by Fred Landau

     This 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 4:35pm on June 19, 2024[SHARE]