Counting down to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur - this blog's Jewish New Year 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 dropped that concept,  but recording this was great fun! 

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

Celebrating the birthday of Whitney Houston the way our parody timeline usually celebrates

 Celebrating the birthday this weekend (Aug. 9) of Whitney Houston the way our parody timeline usually celebrates birthdays - 

Here's a parody of the Whitney Houston classic "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" -

Where's the musical theater connection? Well, the smash hit song became one of the goofiest, silliest jukebox-musical numbers ever, so we offered "The Hottie Guard," parody to the (maybe still Broadway-aimed?) stage version of "The Bodyguard" 

"I've Got a Chance for Some Hottie (Who's Studly)" - parody of I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" -

https://youtu.be/Pqkd0k6quMU

My July 4th tradition - The John and Abigail Adams Family Theme Song

 My July 4th theater parody tradition - 

The John and Abigail Adams Family Theme Song, which assumes some knowledge of the cast album of “1776”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bUcJKIYFyw

Lookback to some good times for my parodies ten years ago this week - The Times reprinted Lin-Manuel Miranda's tweet "Freddie the NYTimes commenter is a local treasure."

 Looking back on some good times for my parodies ten years ago this week - New York Times editor Daniel McDermon asked me to write a parody lyric noting the last post of the Times' ArtsBeat column. And in a "meta" moment, on June 1, 2016, the New York Times reprinted Lin-Manuel Miranda's tweet "Freddie the NYTimes commenter is a local treasure."

The full parody lyric and the full New York Times article are at this link.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/service-advisory-artsbeat-is-finished/

Our try at a MARY POPPINS/1776 mash-up, as we approach the U.S. 250th birthday

 Reprising our try at a  MARY POPPINS/1776 mash-up, as we approach the U.S. 250th birthday 

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

"SEMI-QUIN-CENTENNIAL"-  a YouTube parody for the whole family 

https://youtu.be/Co5e45C7atU

Looking back as we approach two decades of show-related video parodies: Some of our most-viewed videos

 Looking back as we approach two decades of video parodies:  Some of our most-viewed videos

Carolina in the Morning parody on Gov. Mark Sanford scandal 

135,000+. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAFeLTchV8c

Aquarius parody in audience interaction at Hair 

 13,200+. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQQnN5liEAw

Sarah Palin - parody of You're So Vain 

22,500+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IGmbd3PDA4

I'm Still Queer - parody of Sondheim's I'm Still Here 

15,200+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt40nQGc1I4

At the Chuppah - Copacabana parody 

27,300+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6V6cPuTuRDE

A Little Site Music - parody of Sondheim's A Little Night Music

Act one 8,000+  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2mMKTJhdMc

plus Act two 3,600+. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iVjlnbTx1g

Fly Me to the Moon parody Fly me in the Nude (but it's G-rated despite the title) about Newark Airport full-body scanners

 51,000+. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn3AcCmPL00

Another Christmas has music and lyric by me  

41,900+. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfenKQ7sj1E

Bette Midler Hello Dolly "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" parody 

23,000+  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv4JujI26zM

Is It Mushy To Say I Love You? has music by me, lyric by Hunter Prillaman  

73,000+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZfjTLHl1s

Right Nearby has music and lyric by me 

44,000+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri92dfRHYxg

and another from our channel

Reach Out - Skip Kennon wrote this song, it's from the show we wrote together "The Last Starfighter" 

22,800+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qoNrjhnVxM

Theater Lookback - "The Hottie Guard" - "I've Got a Chance for Some Hottie (Who's Studly)" - parody of "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)"

 Celebrating the anniversary this week of the March 1987 filming in NYC of (IMHO) the most joyous 1980s pop music video, the seminal Whitney Houston classic "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" -

Where's the musical theater connection? Well, the smash hit song became one of the goofiest, silliest jukebox-musical numbers ever, so we offered "The Hottie Guard," parody to the (maybe still Broadway-aimed?) stage version of "The Bodyguard" 

"I've Got a Chance for Some Hottie (Who's Studly)" - parody of I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" -

https://youtu.be/Pqkd0k6quMU