With the Tonys coming up, I offer our parody video rundown salute to the 2024-25 season's Tony nominations:
OUR TOWN - Best Revival nominee - We didn't dare do a parody of this production's use of the smell of bacon (since we knew people involved), but we had spoofed the bacon aroma in the David Cromer revival in 2009, so we offer that:
"It's Pork! It's Pork! A Hell of a Smell"
GYPSY - Again, we didn't dare do a spoof of the multi-nominated revival with Audra McDonald as Madame Rose - so offering a revival of our spoof of the truly psychotic Madame Rose that Imelda Staunton had done in London,
"Some Roses"
JUST IN TIME - Since Best Actor nominee Jonathan Groff himself has such open fun making fun of his own sweating and spitting, we DID dare do a parody-tribute to his Bobby Darin, suggesting that in the case of Mr. Groff, people might not only NOT mind being in a "splash zone," they might even pay extra for those seats.
"Mack the Knife Parody"
A WONDERFUL WORLD: THE LOUIS ARMSTRONG MUSICAL - nominated for Best Actor, James Monroe Iglehart.
We offered a parody of the feel-good "What a Wonderful World" - a more realistic feel-less-good "2025 update"
"What a One-Percent World!"
OH, MARY! - We didn't dare try to be funny ourselves in dealing with this play. Instead, we offered up our "Mary song" for when regionals and local theaters do the "Oh, Mary!" cabaret segment and can't get the rights to the songs used on Broadway [with a video originally meant for suggesting replacement Mary's for "The Testament of Mary" which we'd dubbed "The Testiness of Mary"]
"A Brand New Mary" - a song to cheer Mary up!
SALUTE TO THE INSANE OUT-OF-CONTROL GROSSES FOR nominees GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK and GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS and also non-nominee OTHELLO
"We Coughed Up for Shakespeare" - Rich people react to being able to easily afford $700 to $921 tickets
