Celebrating the WICKED score with a sing-along parody YouTube - "Crying Poverty" to "Defying Gravity"

 

Celebrating the WICKED movie and score this blog's way - 

with a sing-along parody YouTube - "Crying Poverty" to "Defying Gravity

This parody takes the viewpoint of the "misunderstood" 

Ruth Madoff in the Madoff financial scandal

 "Crying Poverty" - 

Parody to WICKED's "Defying Gravity" 

https://youtu.be/JuoaaxK4rl8

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Some theater-music Election Day parody silliness (to a Gershwin classic) - "Vote- and Do it Again"

 Some theater-music Election Day parody silliness (to a Gershwin classic)

Recalling four years ago, when the meme of "I voted twice today" seemed to be on silly badges and stickers everywhere

For parody only: "VOTE - AND DO IT AGAIN" - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77pqZZHbd9w

Halloween Parody tradition - some theater ghosts

Halloween Parody tradition - some theater ghosts 

 The ghost of Henry Miller first gripes about his theatre being re-named for Sondheim, then comes to like the idea

"Losing My Sign" - parody of "Losing My Mind" from FOLLIES 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phlrsBx23O0

And on a lower-tech note, the ghost of Alan Jay Lerner hanging out at Vassar watching the ON A CLEAR DAY revisal (making Daisy Gamble a gay man) in its pre-NYC incarnation, thinking about why his heirs approved their rewriting his work

"What Did it Lack That it Has Now?" - parody of "What Did I Have" from ON A CLEAR DAY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt9VtE_1TY8

As ticket sales start for the new Hugh Jackman show at Radio City: I RAID MY KEOGH, parody of I GO TO RIO

 With excitement building for the new Hugh Jackman show at Radio City, feels like a good time for a parody-tribute reminder of how we feel about buying tickets whenever Hugh Jackman does a show!

“I RAID MY KEOGH” - parody of “I GO TO RIO”   

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

Our musical THE LAST STARFIGHTER opened 20 years ago at New York's Storm Theatre

 Our musical THE LAST STARFIGHTER opened 20 years ago at New York's Storm Theatre, October 15 2004.  So many great memories!  The most recent production was in Dec. 2022 in Cleveland, and hoping there will be many more in the future. 

https://www.youthplays.com/musical/the-last-starfighter-full-length-version-by-skip-kennon-fred-landau-466

Info about our original cast recording on the Kritzerland label's website

http://www.kritzerland.com/starfighter.htm

This was the article on Playbill on the day of our opening night 20 years ago.

https://mobile.playbill.com/article/world-premiere-of-last-starfighter-musical-opens-storm-theatres-off-bway-season-oct-15-30-com-122512

"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