"SEMI-QUIN-CENTENNIAL"- for U.S. 250th B'DAY JULY 4 2026 - a "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" parody

A possible "Mary Poppins"-"1776" parody crossover -

Felt like an OK time to upload our YouTube to the upcoming 250th anniversary of U.S. independence!

The U.S. will celebrate our "Semiquincentennial" on July 4, 2026. There's still time (over a year) to learn how to spell and pronounce it properly.

"SEMI-QUIN-CENTENNIAL"- for America's 250th BIRTHDAY JULY 4 2026 -

https://youtu.be/Co5e45C7atU

A "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (the great Sherman Brothers song) parody

Remembering what "Off-Broadway" used to mean - with many of today's off-B'way tickets costing $400 and up

 Inspired by the recent Times article "Off Broadway, Labor Tension Heats Up"

With many of today's off-Broadway tickets costing $400 to $500 and up - remembering in a musical parody-tribute video what "off-Broadway" used to mean.

"Off-Broadway" - Parody-tribute to "On Broadway" 

https://youtu.be/9owl7UbBbLU

Reprising SALLY'S TALLEY'S FOLLIES now for Bernadette Peters & Danny Burstein both back on Broadway in Sondheim shows

 Posting this at this time for both Bernadette Peters and Danny Burstein being back on Broadway in Sondheim shows -  

This was a tribute to the glorious Danny Burstein going from playing opposite Bernadette Peters as 'Sally" in FOLLIES to playing opposite Sarah Paulson as "Sally" in TALLEY'S FOLLY.

SALLY'S TALLEY's FOLLIES - "Story of Sally & Sally" - From FEB. 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM-96oZeY3Q

With the new Hugh Jackman show setting records at Radio City, reprising our parody-tribute to the ticket prices!

With the new Hugh Jackman show setting records at Radio City Music Hall, reprising our parody-tribute to how we feel about buying pricy tickets to a Hugh Jackman show!

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

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

A weird musical theater situation that sure feels like gaslighting, someone trying to present an alternate reality:

 This is a weird situation that sure feels like gaslighting, someone trying to present an alternate reality:

I'd posted some material about the original musical TANGLED WEBS which we'd created from scratch for Rebecca Luker, who then did the publicized reading and then all the demos for the show. (Lyrics by Ellen Schwartz and music by Skip Kennon, book by Bill Connington based on the short story “Webcast” by Fred Landau).

Here's where it got weird and gaslight-y, that someone took the trouble to react angrily and comment something malicious

"JefE commented

"You are not honoring Rebecca Luker. You are jerking yourself off and promoting yourself. Shame on you!"

I wonder about the malevolence of gaslighters like that person - what's in it for them except to instill a sense of unease and creepiness to someone highlighting the work they'd done with a beloved iconic star.

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But the show was indeed, in fact, created from thin air, from scratch, for Rebecca - and her having stated in various ways in interviews and in person things like “I wish I had branched out a little more,” she said cheerily. “Maybe played a bitch or something.”

Then she liked it enough to do the reading

(which had gotten online news article coverage such as this article on BroadwayWorld)

https://www.broadwayworld.com/.../Luker-Led-New-Musical...

The almost-full recorded score, where she recorded seven of the demos, is here

http://www.ellenschwartzandfriends.com/tangled-webs

and had YouTubes most of the demos from the show, such as

And I'll Seal It With a Kiss - sung by Rebecca Luker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHf2EsIHY7Q

Revisiting our parody - a money-minded Lois Lane from "Kiss Me Kate" at the Premium ER triage desk

 Always seeking a theater-song lighter side -

What is and isn't covered by health insurance has gotten into the news in such a strange dark way.

Revisiting our parody where we imagine a money-minded Lois Lane from "Kiss Me Kate" at the triage desk at the V.I.P. Emergency Room

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHZDHZrXpA4

PARODY- Lois Lane from Kiss Me Kate-"Triage at the Premium ER"-

Parody Lyric-Fred Landau 

Feat. Emily (MJ) McAleesejergins

Saluting the recent Times article on the obligatory Broadway standing ovation - "Chatting Is a Show's Best Friend"

 The reader-commenter reaction to last week's New York Times article on the obligatory Standing Ovation on Broadway makes this feel like a time to look back on when that subject was a Times front page article - at the time of Megan Hilty starring in the 2012 "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."  

A cast's parody plea to save your energy and please post vigorously online - that chatting online means more than a standing O to their continued employment!

"Chatting Is a Show's Best Friend"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUa5GGeLdH8