Saturday, October 30, 2021

For Halloween: Recalling our exclusive with The Ghost of Alan Jay Lerner at Vassar for "On a Clear Day"

 For Halloween:  

Recalling our exclusive with The Ghost of Alan Jay Lerner back when he haunted the "On A Clear Day" Vassar rewrite.

"What Did It Lack That It Has Now?"- Lerner considers what could possibly be  added by Daisy Gamble being changed to a man

Friday, October 15, 2021

Broadway's "The Lehman Trilogy" opened last night - Even after three hours, could it use a "megamix" to get the crowd on its feet

 Wondering if Broadway's "The Lehman Trilogy" even at three hours could use a megamix to get the crowd on its feet and clapping in rhythm, so they get online even while they leave the theater and tell their friends what a good time they had! 

Here's "I Need Me A Loan" the cautionary tale of AIG's Ruby Red Ink, vocal by Georga Osborne to the 1970s "Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress)"

https://youtu.be/Ha8Q2KHzuME


This adds to the study materials - The Broadway "Lehman Trilogy" gives you 3 parts in 180 minutes, 

"The Lehman Eulogy" gives you 5 parts in 8 minutes https://youtu.be/KUjCalZ7hiM  

(feat. "I Am Lehman" and "AIG Against the World")

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

With the happy news that Jane Lynch will be in Beanie Feldstein- Michael Mayer FUNNY GIRL: Lookback to HOLLYWOOD GOWN 2011 Emmy Edition when Jane Lynch hosted.

 With the happy news that Jane Lynch is announced for the cast of FUNNY GIRL:

Lookback to HOLLYWOOD GOWN 2011 Emmy Edition - Jane Lynch hosted.

https://youtu.be/24Rpk846HR4

It was very oddly a cleavage fashion year with some fashionable people (and their designers) making unusually weird choices - Stars who were usually in red carpet BEST lists made it to SAY WHAT? lists.
Does anyone recall what was going on in fashion Sept 2011?  

Parody lyric by Fred Landau, vocal & video work is by Jan Horvath - 
(Real song is "Hollywood Town" written by Harriet Schock, which is possibly most widely known to 1970s generation for the recording by Manfred Mann's Earth Band on the "Angel Station" album)

Sunday, October 3, 2021

For those hungering for some negativity with the sunny ads for Broadway optimism - this was WHAT YOU DID GOT SNUBBED


The re-opening of Broadway was going so well, there had to be a wrench thrown in! So for those hungering for some negativity with the sunny ads for Broadway optimism.  :)

With optimistic classic shows like "A Chorus Line" being used by NYC in the feel-better ads, recalling that Ed Kleban was something of a curmudgeon and really is said not to have felt "What I Did For Love" for himself, but he caught what the characters felt so well.  

This was "What You Did Got Snubbed"- that maybe Ed Kleban prefers looking from heaven enjoying the reactions of the 298 people who lost the Kleban Prize every year more than the 2 who won.