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."
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.
Looking back as we approach two decades of video parodies: Some of our most-viewed videos
and another from our channel
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"Some optimism for our "Last Starfighter" musical - an official "Last Starfighter" movie screenplay sequel, though in comic book form
It's an official Last Starfighter sequel in comic book form - but hoping we can come up with some way to parlay this into more productions of our THE LAST STARFIGHTER musical, or maybe even sales/downloads/views of Bruce Kimmel's Kritzerland original cast recording.LOOKING BACK AT 2025: SOME PARODIES OF 2025 BROADWAY EVENTS
The idea of a Celine Dion parody show like TITANIQUE, that started small and (one assumes) is ready to charge Broadway premium prices of whatever the market will bear, is a joy to contemplate for those of us who traffic in parody!
