Music and Comedy

Saturday, April 27, 2013

With the hot new Madoff film avoiding talking to Ruth Madoff - we look to when we sought Ruth's side of the story [and added April 30: remembering Deanna Durbin]

With the big new film about Bernie Madoff about to come out, and that film specifically having avoided talking to Ruth Madoff - let's recall our converstaion with "Ruth" at intermission of WICKED where she obviously identified with Elfie's torment in Defying Gravity

Defying Gravity parody - "Crying Poverty" - the part of "Ruth Madoff"sung by Jan Horvath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuoaaxK4rl8

April 30 addition:
From an old show about the Hollywood Star System
"Always Deanna" - posted in loving memory of Deanna Durbin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho2MCMmF1CY

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Megan Hilty "Diamonds/Lorelei" parody - because we truly love her on SMASH and her album! Also MOTOWN the musical, the parody commercial

Saw MOTOWN today. Much more emotional than I expected.. Much broader in scope than a show like Jersey Boys, which is not a knock to the glorious entertainment that is Jersey Boys!

In any normal Broadway year, the climax of the show would be Berry Gordy getting a well-deserved Tony Award. Such a sweeping, ambitious show, so powerful and moving. And yes, it is so much fun, too, it doesn't skimp on the fun - but so much more! And for readers of this blog, for me to say that about a "jukebox" show - well, let's think of it as a powerful play that had to be told with THIS music!
The Motown parody commercial:- special thanks to Jan Horvath for doing the vocals!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onIR5WCr5dA

Here's my "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend parody" - sung by Sheree Sano (as Marilyn/Megan)
(Inspired by the NY Times front page story on standing ovations at GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES starring Megan Hilty and a great cast - a true highlight of the past twelve months)

CHATTING IS A SHOW'S BEST FRIEND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUa5GGeLdH8

And finally, with the air traffic controller developments making air traffic easier, let's reprise
FLY ME IN THE MOON parody - Fly Me in the Nude (recalling those scanners)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn3AcCmPL00

Monday, April 8, 2013

March Madness closer "One Whiny Moment", and Salute to Cher, because we're talking about her for some strange reason!

A plug for a little Cher-middle-age-but-still-modern parody (thank heavens she's still in Vegas performing and looking forward to that Broadway show whenever she's ready!!!!)

Pcs, Apps and Tweets (parody of Gypsies Tramps and Thieves)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouMDcHTyhWw

Also - My annual March Madness closer, the wish to get to write the replacement song for ONE SHINING MOMEMT, since it's not fair that that writer gets to hog that gig for 25 years just because he knew the right people 25 years ago

ONE WHINY MOMENT lyr\ic
tune of ONE SHINING MOMENT

That writer’s good / But here I am
I’m searching for a break / No one gives a damn
All my career / No one cares
Just how hard I try / To push my wares

Give me one whiny moment
And then I’ll be fine
My one whiny moment
A moment that’s mine

I know I’m short / Of friends with clout
Wasn’t it some other sport / That song was about?
Who did he know / To get his through
He got his song a go / By who he knew

Just one whiny moment
That’s all that I need
Just one whiny moment
I beg and I plead

Like twenty-five years that that song’s in our face
So maybe a contest for one to repla-a-a-a-a-ce

He said just one / But man alive
He deserved his one / Not twenty-five

(really sell it here)

Give me one whiny moment
Give way for new songs
One whiny moment
So maybe do two songs

Thursday, April 4, 2013

A salute to Elaine Stritch, after reading the Times article

My salute to Stritch - which I put yesterday afternoon way down in the comments box under Stephen Holden's Times article, which is at:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/a-notable-audience-for-elaine-stritch-at-the-carlyle/

Tune of I Never Know When to Say When -
based a bit loosely on Mr. Holden's touching, insight-filled article

[Stritch]
I’m having fun in here
A well-sold run in here
Look by the bar, seems every star knows I’m not done in here
They hang on every turn of phrase, every rhyme
That says there’s never a time to call time

I may not toe a line
And I may blow a line
But they don’t jeer, I make them cheer when I forego a line
If I get controversial, it’s so sublime
No, there is never a time to call time
No getting old ain’t no crime
There’s never a time to call time

[As people on my email list probably know, I'd been "stritchfan" on twitter for a long time before my twitter was hacked and I lost the twitter name last fall. Anything from "stritchfan" since fall 2012 was not from me.]

Monday, February 18, 2013

Bette Midler "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" parody, and a Talley's Folly - Follies musical salute

About the Michael Riedel article in Friday's Post talking about Bette's Broadway show, but it was based on the AmEx pre-sale only, though (where the location offerings really weren't at all great - I wasn't even tempted by the locations AmEx offered in this case, though I really love all these people) -

Bette Midler "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" YouTube parody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-JxVU5tTxM

It's under a minute, like a parody info-mercial.

also: to tune of “The Rose”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Eu_V0npOA

also:

Re the article by Times reporter Rob Kendt on Broadway star Danny Burstein in the paper last week: Here's a musical salute to Danny Burstein's roles ranging in under a year from having been married to one "Sally" in FOLLIES to courting another "Sally" in "TALLEY'S FOLLY"

Sally Talley's Follies - "Story of Sally and Sally"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM-96oZeY3Q

Please pass the links around if you like them!

A MATILDA THOUGHT - since "Matilda" is trending and we REALLY do try to keep up

{I updated this small section May 1 for the

Four Matildas' special Tony; congrats to

our friends and everyone at the show)

Tony snub NY Times article update, ROALD DAHL, tune of RAG DOLL

 [with love to Matlda, as the joyous producers who did both Matilda

 and Jersey Boys react to their great fortune]

 (Roald Dahl, ooh)

True, no one saw them all
But each one is a gem

Oh, Tony can’t recall
A foursome great like them

They’ll thank Roald Dahl,
Thank you, Roald Dahl,

As excitement climbs, see our show four times!

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (ooh, Roald Dahl)

The other nominees are tense, but hey who cares?

Their prize is sewn up,
Once they’ve shown up, Tony’s theirs

They’ll thank Roald Dahl,
Thank you, Roald Dahl,

For some photo ops, nothing really tops

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh (Roald Dahl, ooh)

The show’s a smash, let’s not split hairs

Just scattered singles, no more pairs!

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Gov Mark Sanford is back in politics - our Nothin Could Be Finer parody

or at the direct YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAFeLTchV8c

Per my comment made in comment box: I'm sending my vibes too, trying to remind people how easily Mr. Sanford's mind could drift away. It's not a judgment on someone being in love with someone who's not his wife, more a judgment on being willing to fake out a state with a "story" in the way he did, and then be so easily embraced and trusted all over again! Oy!

"Nothing Could Be Finer Than To Leave South Carlina" (a comical musical reflection on what must have been a governor's attitude) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAFeLTchV8c

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

2012 in mainly theater-and-cabaret related parody and tribute videos

FIRST, LOOKING BACK:
HERE IS 2010 IN THEATER-RELATED VIDEO PARODIES -

http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2010/12/2010-in-theater-related-parodies-month.html

HERE IS 2009'S LIST - 2009 in theater-related video parodies

http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2010/09/2009-look-back-in-theater-parodies.html

My Sept. 2012 look-back at this blog's Theater Parody Video Years 2009-2011 is at

http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-look-back-at-theater-spoofs-2009-2011.html

And here, in reverse order of the year, is 2012 in mainly (almost all) theatre tributes and parodies - not all necessarily funny, some more sincere.

DEC 2012 – due to the great actor’s birthday being in December, here’s a novelty song, a non-comedy ballad called FROLIC LIKE ELI WALLACH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONC6oE_v9b4

and also for the holidays: our Adele / SKYFALL take on "Let It Snow, Let It Snow..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3SF-Z5wOTg

NOV 2012 - BEYONCE- "KRINGLE LADIES" (Put 5 Golden Rings On It) - Super Bowl version, celebrating Beyonce's "subtle" Super Bowl announcement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f79voylYoBo

OCT 2012 – “MOTOWN THE MUSICAL” shows itself off to the public, our parody-tribute TV ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onIR5WCr5dA

AUG – SEPT 2012 – ED ASNER & GEORGIA ENGEL MAKE FOR AN MTM THEMED SEASON N NY STAGES (MTM THEME PARODY)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ensRmwNeqFs

JULY 2012 – CLOSER THAN EVER / MISS BYRD PARODY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcrP-UiQtlk

JUNE 2012 – IN TRIBUTE TO ALL THE JEWISH HUMOR ON STAGE THESE DAYS: “PUT YOUR PAIN IN THE HANDS OF A JEW”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53wvYwGE9Z8

MAY 2012 – PARODY-TRIBUTE to SMASH, for the greatest answer ever to a marriage proposal: I’M IN TECH

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6IUvv-cPqY

APRIL 2012 – WE WERE WORKING ON AN ADELE PARODY MUSICAL - HERE’S A PARODY FROM THAT JUKEBOX SPOOF SHOW, OF HER “ROLLING IN THE DEEP”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_oexA7W-g

MARCH 2012 – PRIOMO FOR THE EDITH PIAF STAMP –

LA VIE EN ROSE PARODY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z6iz4jPsw

FEBRUARY 2012 – PETULA CLARK AT FEINSTEIN’S PARODY :

DON’T SLEEP IN THE SUBWAY SPOOF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WQiQ9FhEBI

JANUARY 2012 – DOWNTOWN ABBY / UPTOWN ANN LANDERS, a parody TV show pitch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7n2P2CIFBM