"I Will Survive" parody lyric by Fred Landau - "I'll be Inscribed":
A parody update as re-opening is in full swing, for better or maybe better not. Let's hope.
The one-minute opening from the 7-minute Labor Day sequel (coming soon) to our "When I''m Stuck at Home" from May, which is still here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mTdB7C8fg
That's Entertainment parody -The world's in a stage, a stage where the money fights containment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuSeE_KIcVc&feature=yo
And here's the closing number.
"Your Smiling Face" parody - Whenever I see you touch your face, I have to cry and yell- because I love you, yes I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYqUFVLfxTM
Also Labor Day today is also my father Nat Landau's 100th birthday and there were fun Broadway friends Bill Parry (who starred in the premiere of our Last Starfighter musical) and Maureen Silliman (who starred in our Actors Temple TRU presentation of Viva Max) there by Skype doing a fun birthday hello. (Mom and Dad used to get on the Florida bus every year and haul their theater loving cookies to Coconut Grove because Maureen Silliman did a show at Coconut Grove. Dad recalled Mom got so worried when Maureen was playing Marcia Lewis' part in Rags before Paper Mill that Maureen had put on 50 of more pounds since she last saw Maureen. Such relief when Mom saw the padded suit hanging in Maureen's dressing room. )
For people who know our family, Sept. 7th is Nat Landau's 100th birthday. We've been spreading out the wishes he's been getting over yesterday and today. A year ago, this had been planned for a party at (we hoped) their local Casita, but actually, there were people able to be there virtually who might not have been able to be at a real in-person party had that happened. Bill Parry & Maureen Silliman were at the Miami party today by remote (is it skype or skype-style video?) from NYC. https://youtu.be/7c8mnxhJn5E
I won't publicly post any of the personal reminiscences online, so many wonderful thoughts from friends and from cousins of four generations, but I'll only post only the musical ones.
The Piaf forever stamp was 2012, and even then in that election year we were worried about how snail-like even "snail mail" was. The snail makes a guest appearance at 0:30 and this is believed to be the post office snail's first (and maybe only?) appearance in a La Môme parody video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Z6iz4jPsw
Thank you to the amazing Jan Horvath for the vocal here.
Also: This is from the bill and call log from a Miami lawyer for a Landau family estate and elder care matter who I hired August 10 2020 with a $15,000 retainer.
Theater connection: Look at August 14 - why is a lawyer for a Landau family matter talking to Jen Tepper, who is a Broadway producer who at the time I had a Human Rights issue with, and with whom this antitrust issue
http://fred-and-the-economy.blogspot.com/2022/02/to-robyn-goodman-and-producers-of-other.html
is going on since 2010. And for more than a half hour, and the lawyer writes that Jen gives him a "Better understanding."
Looking back ten years ago this week- one of the most successful replacement casts ever!
It's 10 years this week since one of the best reviewed and most surprisingly well-realized replacement pairs to follow a premium success: when Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch took over in the revival of "A Little Night Music." This was a tribute, the "overheard" negotiating with Stritch's agent - who was reported in the press to have been asking for extras that didn't exist ány more, even though Stritch really openly wanted to do the show. With real love for Ms. Stritch, a low-tech take on one of those silly hypothetical lists of supposed demands for things that hadn't existed in years - and she had said she was never going to turn the show down anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgev_fewvlQ
And this was A LITTLE SITE MUSIC - celebrating the first Sondheim show to go premium in 2009.
Act 1 - Accountess Charlotte / Anne / Madame Alarmfeldt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2mMKTJhdMc
Act 2- Disarray / Petra / Frederika checking the box office
