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 Glengarry Glen Ross
Friday, March 28, 2025
COUGHED UP FOR SHAKESPEARE! - on the huge grosses for name-star vehicles Othello, Good Night and Good Luck & Glengarry Glen Ross
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Remembering Mr. Sondheim on his birthday in the way this blog usually does - Some of our Sondheim-themed parodies
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 Kimmel, had gotten an OK to give me Mr. Sondheim's direct email address,
and this 2009 YouTube parody was the first of a long series of videos from 2009 to 2013 where Mr. Sondheim looked at the parodies before they were recorded and even gave helpful notes.
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
Parody lyrics by Fred landau, sung by Bill Parry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt40nQGc1I4
- starting with theater right around Stonewall circa 1969 and going through 40 years of theater, a field that somewhat got identified with the gay demographic.
I was especially thrilled when Michael Musto posted a Village Voice article that took note of this video.
"Hilarious Gay Spoof of 'I'm Still Here'"
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From just before the 2009 Broadway revival of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC -
"A Little Site Music" - a six-number, seven-minute mini-musical
Act One - with parodies of Every Day a Little Death, A Weekend in the Country and Liaisons - Parody lyrics by Fred landau, all six roles sung by Jan Horvath
Act Two is at
with parodies of Send In the Clowns, The Miller's Son and The Glamorous Life
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From May 2020 during Broadway closing for pandemic lockdown
We imagined Broadway leading ladies rethought for the social distancing era
PATTI/SONDHEIM PARODY SALUTE - TOGETHER Parody medley - Joanne (COMPANY) / Rose (GYPSY) -
parodies of "The Little Things You Do Together" & "Together Wherever We Go"
Parody lyrics by Fred landau, sung by Emily (MJ) McAleesejergins
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On this decade's Sondheim premium pricing -
"Another Hundred Millionaires Got Off of Their Phones"-
Parody of "Another Hundred People" from "Company"
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This Youtube celebrated one of my favorite Ben Brantley London Journal reviews.
This parody was of Imelda Staunton's scorched-earth Rose in GYPSY:
SOME ROSES parody to "Some People"
Parody lyrics by Fred landau, sung by Sheree Sano
Sunday, March 9, 2025
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
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 we were in Spring 2020, and maybe it can help to comparing Spring 2020 to where we are now - the business having gotten through it but with so much loss.
"WHEN I'M STUCK AT HOME" - our 7-minute mini-movie-musical - where we were in Spring 2020
The wonderful Emily McAleesejergins plays a performer trying to make the best of things:
starting with "Make 'Em Masks"
then doing social-distancing parody versions of roles the performer would like to be doing rather than masking and isolating -
Mama Rose (Gypsy)
Joanne (Company)
Bianca/Lois Lane (Kiss Me Kate)
and Dorothy at "Home" with Toto a while longer.
Monday, March 3, 2025
Day after Oscars - Lookback to our HOLLYWOOD GOWN musical parody series - parody of the song HOLLYWOOD TOWN
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 fashion years to have fun with was the year James Franco appeared, ready to be kidded, dressed in that time's version of Hollywood finery.
This parody lyric imagined what people on the red carpet might REALLY be thinking when evaluating other stars' gowns.HOLLYWOOD GOWN lookback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Wlq-xZcxs
The real song "Hollywood Town" is written by the wonderful Harriet Schock (and may be best known for the classic recording by Manfred Mann's Earth Band on their Angel Station album)
Thursday, February 27, 2025
WHAT A ONE-PERCENT WORLD! - Feb. 2025 parody version
WHAT A ONE-PERCENT WORLD!
Feb. 2025 parody version -
Parody of the song WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Parody lyric by Fred Landau.
Many thanks to Sheree Sano for the vocal and video.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
"SEMI-QUIN-CENTENNIAL"- for U.S. 250th B'DAY JULY 4 2026 - a "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" parody
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 "Semiquincentennial" on July 4, 2026. There's still time (over a year) to learn how to spell and pronounce it properly.
"SEMI-QUIN-CENTENNIAL"- for America's 250th BIRTHDAY JULY 4 2026 -
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Remembering what "Off-Broadway" used to mean - with many of today's off-B'way tickets costing $400 and up
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-tribute video what "off-Broadway" used to mean.
"Off-Broadway" - Parody-tribute to "On Broadway"
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