Starting to look back on the first quarter century on our YouTube parody timeline (from our theater-oriented viewpoint)

 Starting to look back on the first quarter century on our YouTube parody timeline, gearing up for my upcoming parody lyric book 

21st Century Oldies, The First Quarter Century: What a One-Percent World! - 21st century events sung to the oldies

These were some "long form" (7 to 10 minutes) parody snapshot mini-movies we did on what we (from our theater-oriented viewpoint) saw as major socially resonant events 2001-2025:  the first time even Sondheim went premium (in 2009-2010), the 2020 Quarantine, the 2008 economic crisis.

A LITTLE SITE MUSIC, or EVERY DAY A LITTLE NET - 10-minute mini-movie, the first time Sondheim went premium, as the ladies of A Little Night Music (Charlotte, Anne, Madame Armfeldt, Desiree, Petra and Fredricka) dealt with premium tickets to the starry 2009 revival of their show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVshwEolB9E - Vocals: Jan Horvath

WHEN I'M STUCK AT HOME, the 2020 Quarantine Through the Eyes of a Performer - 7-minute mini-movie, as a performer deals with theater closings by making masks (Make 'Em Masks) and then imagining socially distant roles in parodies of Rose in Gypsy (Together Wherever We Go), Joanne in Company (The Little Things You Do Together), Bianca/Lois Lane in Kiss Me Kate (Always True to You In My Fashion) and staying at "Home" with Dorothy and Toto in The Wiz 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mTdB7C8fg - Feat. MJ (Emily) McAleesejergins

THE LEHMAN EULOGY, AN AIG BAILOUT PARODY MEDLEY (2008 economic crisis) - 8-minute parody-jukebox musical mini-movie, through parodies of Helen Reddy classics Delta Dawn, I Am Woman, Angie Baby, You and Me Against the World, Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUjCalZ7hiM - Vocals: Georga Osborne & Shauna Hicks

A show tune parody lookback - On ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's apparent political comeback

 A show tune parody lookback - On ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's apparent political comeback -

There IS very real precedent for a Governor resigning in disgrace in a sex-related scandal where it really looked like his career was over and done - but where the voters later decided otherwise!

From 2009 - Gov. Mark Sanford sex scandal - "Carolina in the Morning" parody -
His career looked over, but his later political success is now proof that "second acts" in politics are indeed possible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAFeLTchV8c

With the Tonys coming up, I offer our parody video rundown salute to the 2025 Tony nominations:

 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"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6udCDp5ELYY

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"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YPpAOMV_w

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"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3eaFLReem8

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!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kjivj2eNMY

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSFtaG74LDc

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOdZhff2jHs

Have Yourself a Very Skimpy Christmas - Parody show tune look at that "Kids can get two dolls instead of 30" concept

 In the "Presidents say the darnedest things" department - 

Here's our YouTube parody take on that "Kids can just have two dolls instead of 30 for Christmas" concept.  (At least, the President got us thinking about Christmas in May!) 

Thanks if you have time to watch!

"Have Yourself a Very Skimpy Christmas"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wopk_8xFl0I

As Mother's Day approaches - reprising our "Mother With the Hat" parody song

A cautionary Broadway parody fable for anyone buying tickets to go to the theater with Mom for Mother's Day -

Remembering the controversially-titled critically acclaimed Broadway play whose ads shortened an unprintable word to "Mother" and called the play "The Mother With The Hat" - 

which some opined looked like it could have been advertising the perfect show to see with Mom for Mother's Day. 

The "Mother" With the Hat Parody Song

https://youtu.be/1_gG1vJGOFk

Mack the Knife parody, about reviews of Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin on Broadway

 In parody tribute to the reviews about Tony frontrunner (and Tony winner last year) Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin in "Just In Time,"

"Mack the Knife" Parody on YouTube 

https://youtu.be/R3eaFLReem8

- noting that the reviews praised Mr. Groff's performance as sensational, and the critics AND the show also pointedly warned that Mr. Groff spits and perspires a lot, so be aware if you're in the front rows.  (Happily, Mr. Groff and the show clearly have a sense of humor about it.}. 

We offer the idea that while some may want to avoid a "splash zone," others may even be willing to pay extra to be in it!

P.S.  The opening premise of the parody, that the sharks sung about in "Mack the Knife" are just misunderstood, is an homage to the experts discussed in this New York Times story "Don't Call Them Shark Bites." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/nyregion/sharks-nyc-rockaway.html

For Katy Perry singing "What a Wonderful World" in space!

For Katy Perry singing "What a Wonderful World" in space - 

Offering in tribute-parody a reprise of our 2025 regular-person take 

"What a One-Percent World!" 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kjivj2eNMY

Coincidentally, there's a Jeff Bezos rocket ship cameo at 1:20 into the video.

(Parody of "What a Wonderful World" -  real song was recently heard in the 

Broadway musical "A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical")