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”
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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.
Info about our original cast recording on the Kritzerland label's website
This was the article on Playbill on the day of our opening night 20 years ago.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
"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
Parody lyric by Fred Landau
Feat. Sheree Sano
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
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
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
"I Will Survive" parody lyric by Fred Landau - "I'll be Inscribed":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTuhLayowQ
sung by Jan Horvath
Sunday, August 4, 2024
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 WORLDA feel-not-that-good update WHAT A ONE-PERCENT WORLD - from Sept. 2017 but still feels relevant somehow
Parody lyric by Fred Landau. Many thanks to Sheree Sano for doing the vocal!
Saturday, July 27, 2024
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
Friday, July 19, 2024
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
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