Looking back ten years ago this week- one of the most successful replacement casts ever!

Looking back ten years ago this week-  one of the most successful replacement casts ever! 

It's 10 years this week since one of the best reviewed and most surprisingly well-realized replacement pairs to follow a premium success: when Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch took over in the revival of "A Little Night Music." This was a tribute, the "overheard" negotiating with Stritch's agent - who was reported in the press to have been asking for extras that didn't exist ány more, even though Stritch really openly wanted to do the show. With real love for Ms. Stritch, a low-tech take on one of those silly hypothetical lists of supposed demands for things that hadn't existed in years - and she had said she was never going to turn the show down anyway.

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

And this was A LITTLE SITE MUSIC - celebrating the first Sondheim show to go premium in 2009.

Act 1 - Accountess Charlotte / Anne / Madame Alarmfeldt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2mMKTJhdMc

Act 2- Disarray / Petra / Frederika checking the box office

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iVjlnbTx1g

he July 4th parody update - John and Abigail Adams Family/1776 cross-over and Moulin Rouge's Firework

"Firework, Moulin Rouge version" Parody-Tribute video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNGZJrX81zc

[still just one Firework; they had to cut corners somewhere] 

John and Abigail Adams Family Theme ("1776" references are intentional)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bUcJKIYFyw
Happy 4th of July!

Here in the new epicenter and put up a re-edit of the Socially Distant Era Dorothy "Home" parody - 

Dorothy stays home except for walking Toto of course.  

(For budget reasons, and maybe flexible casting just a bit, Toto is played here by MJ's cat instead of shlepping our corgi over to her)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1d0U_WFNes

This is a different take/cover of the parody written for Sheree Sano to sing in the Richard Skipper #StayHome series

The full 7-min WHEN I'M STUCK AT HOME though slightly adjusted is still at 

https://youtu.be/s7mTdB7C8fg

Thanks and please pass any of the links around if you cam think of anyone who might enjoy them.  

Freddie

More socially distant theater to help Broadway come back

Here's the video from the "Kiss me Kate" re-revisal -  MJ plays "Bianca/Lois Lane," manning the desk for high-net-worth patients at the Upper East Side ER, putting VIP patients at ease that the treatment shortage did not need to apply to them. 

"Always Here for You When We Need to Ration". https://youtu.be/Jk7noSqYlYQ

Though laughing and singing alone don't make a problem go away, they can maybe put us in a better frame of mind to try to face the problem. "Make 'Em Masks"  https://youtu.be/yKTZsYYoXUA

Because we're seeing sometimes the only way to not give up is to laugh, or burst into song - on social distancing

Because sometimes the only way to not give up is to laugh, or burst into song.  It doesn't make the problem go away, but it can help you face it better after you laugh or sing. 

And it may not even be in questionable taste if it's educational.  :)

This was brought on by the NYToday and Theater columns in the Times and the words in the real song as sung by Nicolette Larson - "need relating, not solitude."

"It's Gonna Take a Lotta Gloves"

 https://youtu.be/P92NrXCxMBw

(Parody of "Lotta Love" - the real song is the 1970s top 10 classic written by Neil Young)

(this link added to YouTube April 21 2020)  
Imagining pitching a "My Fair Lady" for the commercial needs of a new era. For inclusion, Higgins is nice to Eliza from scene 1, so it's over in 15 minutes, allowing for 20 performances a day, since there can only be30 in the audience. This would be "MY FAR LADY" 

The flower girl is given a mask sewn from flowers at a moment when she's tired of staying in.

"I've Sewn a Costume for Your Face" https://youtu.be/x3RXDyle5sA

Also:  A new video of this song from the show "Across State Lines" - Everyone in the video guaranteed observing the six-feet-apart rule

Asking the musical question: Doesn't 6 feet apart beat 6 feet under?

"With My Friend Killing Time"

https://youtu.be/zpXdp6iS40w

(music and lyric by Fred Landau)

Some non-parody theater song demos, since it's tough to record new stuff right now in social distancing time

Some non-parody original theater songs, since it's tough to record new stuff right now in social distancing time

From the musical ACROSS STATE LINES  (performed previously as The Octagon Circle Show)

- music and lyrics by Fred Landau - these were my demos

Two buddies are  KILLING TIME  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAQlmXZ5fas
- could actually be done staying six feet apart - https://youtu.be/zpXdp6iS40w

"Mack and Mabel" at Encores in 2020 - parody

Type Our Troubles Away - the more good-natured full-song version 

Parody of Encores' 2020 "Mack and Mabel”  [or "Jack and MABEL"]

https://youtu.be/RafIinDbF5A

The earlier one-minute preview version is still at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VpQwnvK7G4

And - 

Proposing a toast to premium success for the 2020 "Company" 

"Another Hundred Patti Fans Got Off Of Their Phones" - Parody

2:35 version

  

at  

  https://youtu.be/biOPO57uQ1M

shorter 1:40 version 

at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3GJXTKt21Q

Hollywood Gown Oscars 2020, and a parody for "The Lehman Trilogy"" (9-minute mini-movie)

Hollywood Gown Oscars 2020 - based on Harriet Schock's song "Hollywood Town" https://youtu.be/1uQ_XPirkaM This parody lyric Fred Landau- Video, edit and vocal Jan Horvath Hollywood Gown Oscars 2020 (1:02 version) - followed by 2:44 audio-only of the parody song https://youtu.be/Ya-MDi9yBJY

And with Sam Mendes Broadway smash "The Lehman Trilogy" coming up, here's an AIG-Lehman Brothers parody we'd done based on a top 5 all-time favorite written by Harriet Schock:

The AIG CEO parody song - THAT AIN'T NO WAY TO TREAT ED LIDDY 

https://youtu.be/Csk7kBuBbsA    Parody of "Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" Sung by George Osborne and Shauna Hicks, AIG-Lehman story and continuity consultant Julie Miller

The full 9-minute mini-musical (in case "The LehmanTrilogy" feels like too long a sit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUjCalZ7hiM