Sunday, June 30, 2024

For Pride Parade Day: reprising “I’m Still Queer” - Michael Musto in the Voice called it a "Hilarious Gay Spoof of 'I'm Still Here'"

 For Gay Pride Parade Day: 

The producer of a few CDs I'd worked on had gotten an OK to give me Mr. Sondheim's direct email address, and this 2009 parody was the first of a series of videos from 2009 to 2013 where Mr. Sondheim looked at the parodies before they were recorded and even gave some helpful notes. 

This was my “I’m Still Queer” -a  parody-tribute of Stephen Sondheim's “I’m Still Here” looking at four decades of New York City theatergoing 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt40nQGc1I4

- starting with theater right around Stonewall circa 1969 and going through 40 years of theater, a field that somewhat got identified with the gay demographic. 

I was especially thrilled when Michael Musto posted a Village Voice article that took note of this video.
"Hilarious Gay Spoof of 'I'm Still Here'"

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A few more YouTubes from this blog's Sondheim-themed parodies

From May 2020 during Broadway closing for pandemic lockdown 
TOGETHER Parody medley - Joanne (COMPANY)) / Rose (GYPSY) - 
parodies of "The Little Things You Do Together" and Together Wherever We Go"
PATTI/SONDHEIM PARODY SALUTE


"Another Hundred Millionaires Got Off of Their Phones"- 
Parody of "Another Hundred People" from "Company"

THE MILLER'S SONG ("LOSING MY SIGN") - 
The Ghost of Henry Miller gripes at first, 
but OK's renaming the Henry Miller Theater for Stephen Sondheim


From just before the Broadway revival of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC - 
"A Little Site Music" - 
Act One - with parodies of Every Day a Little Death, A Weekend in the Country and Liaisons - Parody lyrics by Fred Landau, sung by Jan Horvath
Act Two is at 
with parodies of Send In the Clowns, The Miller's Son and The Glamorous Life



Thursday, June 27, 2024

With "A Little Night Music" opening at Lincoln Center tonight- reprising our "A Little Site Music"

 With "A Little Night Music" opening at Lincoln Center tonight-

At the beginning of this (first two minutes), "Every Day I'm on the Net" as Countess Charlotte longingly searches for reasonably priced tickets to [the Nov. 2009] "A Little Night Music"

"A Little Site Music" - Act One - with parodies of Every Day a Little Death, A Weekend in the Country and Liaisons - Parody lyrics by Fred Landau, sung by Jan Horvath

with parodies of Send In the Clowns, The Miller's Son and The Glamorous Life


Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Parody-Tribute to Sondheim premium pricing - "Another Hundred Millionaires Got Off of Their Phones"-

    

This YouTube video was from Feb. 2020 - imagining what we'd guessed could be a real "premium decade" ahead.

Then the huge financial success of the "Sweeney Todd" revival, and now the triumph of the "Merrily We Roll Along" revival, can be seen as beyond the most ardent Sondheim fans' fantasies for public embrace of Sondheim work!

"Another Hundred Millionaires Got Off of Their Phones"- 
Parody of "Another Hundred People" from "Company"

P.S. It looks like this could apply to the well-heeled people who wanted something from the June 2024 Sondheim auction as well.