REPRISE FOR JULY 4TH - John and Abigail Adams Family Theme by Fred Landau

Ready to snap?  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 5:31pm on July 4, 2022[SHARE]

An uptempo lookback number to send "Lehman Trilogy" audience out dancing and clapping along by Fred Landau

  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 8:26am on June 13, 2022[SHARE]

Some Tony-lookback parody thoughts: THE THINGS WE LIKE TO DO TOGETHER, DO TOGETHER, DO TOGETHER! and The B'way "Lehman Trilogy" in 8 minutes! by Fred Landau

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 on May 9, 2022[SHARE]

As the Barry Manilow-Bruce Sussman musical about the Harmonists gets reviews seeming worthy of a Broadway step-up by Fred Landau

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 on April 14, 2022[SHARE]

In case Broadway goes maskless - A time saving idea: Your premium seat offers a limo to premium ER, when you buy your ticket! by Fred Landau

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 on March 10, 2022[SHARE]

Parody "I'D RATHER A JEW OVER YOU" - ERASMUS CHOIR GUYS RELIEVED NEW "FUNNY GIRL" IS JEWISH - but they did love Lauren Ambrose as Eliza Doolittle!!! by Fred Landau

  Parody of I'D RATHER BE BLUE -  "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 6:02am on March 3, 2022[SHARE]

DARTH OF YOUR WORLD - as James Earl Jones has a Broadway theater named for him!!! by Fred Landau

 As James Earl Jones has a Broadway theater named for him!!! An encore of DARTH OF YOUR WORLD -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBgUp7OrFbk

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 2:56pm on March 2, 2022[SHARE]

Lookback to SO MUCH BUTTER for a fictitious PAULA DEEN STORY - as in TAP DANCE KID, Encores does an encore of the infamous NO HEAVY ACTRESSES casting by Fred Landau

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.   No insensitivity "m…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 3:57am on February 10, 2022[SHARE]

Remembering the great artist Meat Loaf the only way this blog really can - "We're All in the Balcony Now" to "All Coming Back to Me" by Fred Landau

 Remembering the great artist Meat Loaf the only way this blog really can.  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 7:44am on January 21, 2022[SHARE]

2021 lookback, June to Dec. - We'd loved New York in June! So much hope for re-open, but that was 7 months ago, we doubt that anyone would know. by Fred Landau

  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 7:47am on December 26, 2021[SHARE]

2021 as reflected in our mostly-theater/cabaret blog - part 1 of 2: January through May 2021 by Fred Landau

  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 on December 20, 2021[SHARE]

Now unruly airline passengers are in the news! - Here's double feature FLYING WITH THESE LOONS - FLY ME IN THE NUDE based on 2010 Bway show "COME FLY by Fred Landau

 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 on December 16, 2021[SHARE]

Celebrating Natalie Mendoza's leading cast of "Moulin Rouge" at the Macy's Parade. Her Satine is a decade after "Spider Man." by Fred Landau

  Celebrating Natalie Mendoza's performance at the Macy's Parade.  Her Satine in "Moulin Rouge" is a decade after her accident in "Spider Man."   Never imagined "Moulin Rouge" looki…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 3:47pm on November 25, 2021[SHARE]

Will a Sondheim show finally go mega-premium? Let's make a wish! "Another 100 Patti Fans Got Off Of Their Phones" by Fred Landau

Will a Sondheim show finally go mega-premium?  Let's make a wish!  "Another 100 Patti Fans Got Off Of Their Phones"  In the 2010s, we saw million-dollar weeks for the FOLLIES reviv…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 6:39am on November 16, 2021[SHARE]

An Adele VOGUE magazine lookback - Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" is of course now a show tune in MOULIN ROUGE. (Eventually, might every song be a sho by Fred Landau

 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 9:44pm on November 1, 2021[SHARE]

For Halloween: Recalling our exclusive with The Ghost of Alan Jay Lerner at Vassar for "On a Clear Day" by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 6:56pm on October 30, 2021[SHARE]

Broadway's "The Lehman Trilogy" opened last night - Even after three hours, could it use a "megamix" to get the crowd on its feet by Fred Landau

 Wondering if Broadway's "The Lehman Trilogy" even at three hours could use a megamix to get the crowd on its feet and clapping in rhythm, so they get online even while they leave the th…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:38am on October 15, 2021[SHARE]

With the happy news that Jane Lynch will be in Beanie Feldstein- Michael Mayer FUNNY GIRL: Lookback to HOLLYWOOD GOWN 2011 Emmy Edition when Jane Ly by Fred Landau

 With the happy news that Jane Lynch is announced for the cast of FUNNY GIRL: Lookback to HOLLYWOOD GOWN 2011 Emmy Edition - Jane Lynch hosted. https://youtu.be/24Rpk846HR4 It was very …

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:01am on October 6, 2021[SHARE]

For those hungering for some negativity with the sunny ads for Broadway optimism - this was WHAT YOU DID GOT SNUBBED by Fred Landau

The re-opening of Broadway was going so well, there had to be a wrench thrown in! So for those hungering for some negativity with the sunny ads for Broadway optimism.  :) With optimistic…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 2:29pm on October 3, 2021[SHARE]

A quick MAKE 'EM MASKS School Starts 2021 version by Fred Landau

  MAKE 'EM MASKS School Starts 2021 version   https://youtu.be/98SsvTrTkNQ Parody Lyric Fred Landau  Vocals and feat. Emily (MJ ) McAleesejergins Vocals producer KJ McAleesejergin…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:18pm on September 8, 2021[SHARE]

For Jewish New Year 5782, and Counting down to Yom Kippur: 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-kSkip and I wrote this to submit for a show …

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 5:06pm on September 7, 2021[SHARE]

This was the show Marian Weiner and I had written 2015-2017 about the aftermath of the Afghan War for a Long Island family (we did it "on location in by Fred Landau

  This was our musical about the Afghan war, a musical drama but as musicals mostly seem to need, always with a thought to leaving the audience with a feeling of recovery and opt…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 4:35am on August 25, 2021[SHARE]

A Gov. Cuomo covid-era retrospective, before the Cuomo story becomes so serious that it's non-PC to laugh about it. by Fred Landau

 A Gov. Cuomo covid-era retrospective NEW! The Albany Interpreter in the little circle onscreen from the July 26 press conference -  explains Gov. Cuomo's "We Cannot Go Backwards…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 8:43pm on August 6, 2021[SHARE]

With the news of the legendary Cherry Lane Theatre changing ownership TRYING A CHERRY LANE THEATRE LOOKBACK, by Fred Landau

Starting with "The Lady With All the Answers" and "Closer Than Ever" - Tribute Judith Ivey's lovely performance as Ann Landers / Eppie Lederer DOWNTOWN ABBY / UPTOWN ANN LANDERS ht…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:19am on July 20, 2021[SHARE]

CHAPEL OF LOVE parody -as NY ends virtual weddings - tribute to NYT article Why Virtual Weddings Are No Longer Legal in New York by Fred Landau

 CHAPEL OF LOVE parody -as NY ends virtual weddings  https://youtu.be/lRAouQwsP1E Parody Lyric Fred Landau. Vocal-Vid.Sheree Sano tribute to Corey Kilgannon's New York Times article�…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:48pm on July 18, 2021[SHARE]