Friday, December 27, 2024

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)
The almost-full recorded score, where she recorded seven of the demos, is here
and had YouTubes most of the demos from the show, such as
And I'll Seal It With a Kiss - sung by Rebecca Luker

Saturday, December 7, 2024

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
PARODY- Lois Lane from Kiss Me Kate-"Triage at the Premium ER"-
Parody Lyric-Fred Landau 
Feat. Emily (MJ) McAleesejergins

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

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

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

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" 



Tuesday, November 5, 2024

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

Sunday, October 27, 2024

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 




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

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

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