Sunday, November 24, 2019

Nov. 2019 - Updating the 2019-2020 theater preview (plus a short tribute to the book by Anonymous)



The 2019-2020 season, what we have so far:  

Bat Out of Hell" - August-September 2019 at NY City Center

"Bat out of Hell" parody by Fred Landau and Jan Horvath
 parody set to Jim Steinman's classic  "It's All Coming Back to Me"


"Little Shop of Horrors" revival parody - on the phenomenon of casting hunks as nebbishy Seymour.
"Stunningly Seymour "



Added Dec 17 (unlisted links) - 

 Proposing a toast to premium success for the 2020 "COMPANY" a Parody-Tribute


shorter 1:40 version https://youtu.be/o1s1ScBSV3An

  


2:35 version

  

https://youtu.be/biOPO57uQ1M




Kate Mulgrew is back onstage, at the Minetta Lane as a rival for Mme. Curie's heart - First parody on Youtube - off-Broadway's "The Half-Life of Marie Curie"
"Elements" to tune of "Elegance" -Mme. Curie’s future husband confronts her ambivalence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yqJ4Fjxvd8




Cross-Toasting Harry Connick's A CELEBRATION OF COLE PORTER this December, and the spring 2020 revival of TAKE ME OUT

Will this "Take Me Out" be as revealing as the play's premiere had been?    A look from \2011-12)
“Everyone Goes” parody tune of Anything Goes

Celebrating Kristin Chenoweth - we never need a reason, but her Broadway concert this season works fine as a reason.

A "Promises Promises" look-back  -
"Knowing When To Close"
She comes to the producers in a dream, when they are losing sleep about whether to risk recasting or take the profits and close
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf_ZsvMCZTo




In honor of THE LEHMAN TRILOGY (opening in the spring)
The AIG and Lehman Brothers Mini-Musical - (about 8 minutes)  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUjCalZ7hiM
with parody lyrics to DELTA DAWN by Alex Harvey & Larry Collins, I AM WOMAN by Helen Reddy & Ray Burton, ANGIE BABY by Alan O'Day, YOU AND ME AGAINST THE WORLD by Paul Williams & Ken Ascher, and AIN'T NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY by Harriet Schock

Our try  to become to "Moulin Rouge" what "Spamilton" is to "Hamilton"

"Firework, Moulin Rouge version" our Parody-Tribute video 
[still just one Firework; they had to cut corners somewhere] 


CHATTING IS A SHOW’S BEST FRIEND -  a “Moulin Rouge Parody Playlist” update for Satine’s take on “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”
Encouraging saving your energy for spreading word online


THE PHOTO IS A CHEAT 
(Moulin Rouge song: Rolling in the Deep #2) 
- the pain caused by the photoshopped Vogue cover
I GOT A CHANCE FOR SOME HOTTIE 
(Moulin Rouge song: I Wanna Dance With Somebody) 
- The casting people keep an eye open about their other projects, like finding  a co-star for their  Broadway "The Bodyguard"

Lady Marmalade PARODY -  Brooklyn's Trump Village Theater Party visits Moulin Rouge - ("Really Gonna Earn a Lot")
Vocal by Sheree Sano. Parody lyrics by Fred Landau


And a  moment to honor the new book about the White House by Anonymous:

"If I Could Talk to Anonymous" - or is it Anominous? [PG-13 language]

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

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Monday, September 16, 2019

"I'll Get You Kicked Out of Here" - a don't-mess-with-me, world-weary parody of "I Get a Kick Out of You" PLUS we start our 2019-2020 theater season "tributes"

"I'll Get You Kicked Out of Here" - cell phones in the theater - a now-I've-seen-it-all, don't-mess-with-me, world-weary parody of "I Get a Kick Out of You"  (The parody is done here with two-time MAC Award winner Sheree Sano adapting it to a certain great star)





      (I'm told you have to have "Flash" on your computer to play this, but that most computers do.)



Dec 2019 update - The 2019-2020 season preview in YouTube parody-tributes is now here:  http://music-and-comedy.blogspot.com/2019/11/nov-2019-updating-2019-2020-theater.html


Counting down to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur:


"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.
Skip and I write this to submit for a show that had been described as "jokes used as Jewish novocaine" - the show dropped that concept, and did very well as a show for having made that change, but recording this was great fun, looking back!

"I Will Survive" parody lyric by Fred Landau - "I'll be Inscribed":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTuhLayowQ
sungby  Jan Horvath





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Sunday, May 12, 2019

A Mothers Day tribute and also updating last month's Sheree Sano tribute



Theater title lookback for Mother's Day:
The devoted son who thought "The Mother With the Hat" was a perfect show to see with his Mom 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_gG1vJGOFk

And


In honor of Sheree Sano having just won her  second MAC Award, I reminisced  about some of the parody and tribute recordings she's done with me.

What a One-Percent World
Tune of:  What a Wonderful World

Chatting Is a Show’s Best Friend
Tune of:  Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend

PCs, Apps and Tweets
Tune of:  Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves

Sur-charge
Tune of: Sir Duke

Go Tell Emma (Emma Stone tribute)
Tune of:  Don’t Tell Mama

Try Eating at Subway, Darling
Tune of:  Don’t Sleep in the Subway 
On the political end - we reprise our FALL 2010 “Chrysanthemum Tea Party Overtures,” with a vocal and music production  created by Sheree  reflecting the Tea Party politics of that mid-term election year– 

At 2:32 here - I get to duet with Sheree on non-parody song “Finale to Family Music”  (co-written by Marian Weiner &Fred Landau)



A parody-tribute to the March 2019 Lincoln Center 
"Camelot" benefit tickets, and to Lin-Manuel Miranda as King Arthur

https://youtu.be/OW3PzOmaJxc
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