"They All Laughed" Gershwin parody - Disagreement about honoring Christopher Columbus, but how about keeping the 3-day weekend.

 

Asking the parody question: When people disagree so strongly about honoring Columbus, do they still agree about wanting to keep the three-day weekend?

"They're All Dissing Christopher Columbus" -

THEY ALL LAUGHED (AT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS) parody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQBFXK4vTw

Parody lyric by Fred Landau

Feat. Sheree Sano

For the coming Jewish New Year - this blog's show tune tradition

 For Rosh Hashanah 

"Put Your Pain In the Hands of a Jew" - music by Skip Kennon, lyric by Fred Landau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzpDsd_q-k

Sung by Neal Mayer

We wrote that when asked to submit for a show whose script described the concept as "jokes used as Jewish novocaine" - 

Then the show "Old Jews..." dropped that concept,  but recording this was great fun! With YouTube, no song ever has to stay in a drawer, so the song lives on, on YouTube.

and Counting down to  Yom Kippur:

"I Will Survive" parody lyric by Fred Landau - "I'll be Inscribed":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTuhLayowQ
sung by Jan Horvath

Recalling Louis Armstrong on his birthday - Parody of the feel-good WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD, a feel-not-that-good WHAT A ONE-PERCENT WORLD

 Remembering Louis Armstrong on his birthday August 4, in my YouTube channel's way of remembering a classic recording -

A parody of the feel-good WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD 

A feel-not-that-good update WHAT A ONE-PERCENT WORLD - from Sept. 2017 but still feels relevant somehow

https://youtu.be/QzMi9umls0g

Parody lyric by Fred Landau. Many thanks to Sheree Sano for doing the vocal!

Saluting Celine Dion after her Olympics performance, the only way my blog and YouTube channel really can

 Saluting Celine Dion after her Olympics performance, the only way my blog and YouTube channel really can - and the City Center musical Bat Out of Hell - which besides being an entertaining show, proved outrageous premium prices can sell even at non-profit theaters

To "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" - "We're All in the Balcony Now" (many thanks to the brilliant Jan Horvath) - 

Sing-along lyrics version  

https://youtu.be/2iGHWSI3JNc

As Broadway ticket prices hit amazing new highs in July 2024: Some of our parodies of premium prices

Broadway ticket prices hit a new high ($1400 - that was for EACH ticket) in July 2024.  And that's buying from the box office, not scalpers. 

To either celebrate or commiserate, depending on your point of view, whether you're selling tickets or buying tickets -  

A few of this blog's parodies on the subject of Broadway Premium ticket prices

For Hugh Jackman shows 

“I Raid My Keogh” - parody of “I Go To Rio” from Boy From Oz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPa84ySiryA

For the jukebox musical Bat Out of Hell

“We’re All in the Balcony Now” (parody of “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smw2Qf3TIR8

For Bette Midler shows - one-person play I’ll Eat You Last and then for Hello Dolly!

“The Gross” (parody to “The Rose”)

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

Trying to "glom on" to the "Mary frenzy" on Broadway, re-booting our channel's "Mary Song"

Trying to "glom on" to the "Mary frenzy" on Broadway, re-booting our YouTube channel's "Mary Song" 

 So in parody-tribute to "Oh, Mary!" - cheering on all the Marys in day-to-day life and in cultural history   

A BRAND NEW MARY

https://youtu.be/SSFtaG74LDc

(Music & Lyric - Fred Landau)

[Edited July 15 2024]

As the great Imelda Staunton starts HELLO DOLLY in London, recalling her "scorching Momma Rose" in GYPSY

 As the great Imelda Staunton takes on HELLO DOLLY in London

This parody was of Imelda Staunton's "scorching Momma Rose" in GYPSY:

SOME ROSES parody to "Some People"

("Some Roses have passed the torch, Got the flame, yeah, but not the scorch") https://youtu.be/L3YPpAOMV_w

This celebrated one of my favorite Ben Brantley London Journal reviews

"London Theater Journal: A Scorching Momma Rose"