Wednesday, March 18, 2026

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)" -


Monday, March 2, 2026

Some optimism for our "Last Starfighter" musical comedy adventure - an official "Last Starfighter" movie script sequel, though in comic book form

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.
"After 41 Years, the Greatest Sci-Fi Cult Classic of the '80s Is Officially Getting a Sequel" https://collider.com/sci-fi-cult-classic-the-last-starfighter-sequel-comic-series/ "Last Starfighter" musical comedy adventure - on Bruce Kimmel's Kritzerland site - Book by Fred Landau, Music & Lyrics by Skip Kennon. Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Betuel
https://kritzerland.com/starfighter.htm and on the YouthPLAYS site