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

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

Act Two is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iVjlnbTx1g

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

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"

https://youtu.be/biOPO57uQ1M

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

Remembering on our parody-song timeline - Our May 2020 seven-minute short parody-song musical film

 

With a new Covid variant seeming to be on its way four years later, 

Remembering on our parody-song timeline 

Our May 2020 seven-minute 

short parody-song musical film 

"When I'm Stuck at Home"

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mTdB7C8fg

Featuring Emily (MJ) McAleesejergins

Parody lyrics by Fred Landau

vocal producer  KJ McAleesejergins,

video editing and theme music by Scott Arcangel 

A performer tries to make the best of things 

 during uncertainty of when live theater will be back - 

starting with Make 'Em Masks, 

then doing solo versions of big Broadway roles 

with costumes from her own wardrobe - 

Madame Rose (Gypsy), 

Joanne (Company), 

Bianca/Lois Lane (Kiss Me Kate), 

and still "Home" (The Wiz) a while longer.

My blog's Mother's Day tradition - recalling the ads for the Bway play "The Mother With the Hat"

Linking my blog's parody Mother's Day theater tradition:

This was our "The Mom With the Hat"
https://youtu.be/1_gG1vJGOFk
(Music and lyric by Fred Landau)

Remembering the ads for the controversially-titled hit Broadway play "THE MOTHER****** WITH THE HAT" - The ads called it "THE MOTHER WITH THE HAT"
which looked to some sarcastic online chatters like the perfect present for Mother's Day. It seemed to cry out for a song!

In parody-tribute to the new rom-com movie FLY ME TO THE MOON's trailer being out

In parody-tribute to the new romantic comedy movie FLY ME TO THE MOON's trailer being out - It feels like a good reason to re-boot my "rom-com-ish" Sinatra parody video FLY ME IN THE NUDE. (The parody is pretty G-rated though; the subject is those airline security scanners.)

https://youtu.be/gMJvlkzntBg

Getting materials together to try to promote these as a cabaret-style show - a snapshot of where we were March 2020 to March 2021

Because although laughing and singing don't make a problem go away, they can help your outlook

And put you in frame of mind to deal with reality more clearly.

AIMING TO DO THESE AS A CABARET-VENUE SHOW - 

Here are the video versions to give a feel for the material.  (This show could also be done as an audience sing-along for the parodies while showing the videos.)

Following the year from March 2020 (when theater closed) to March 2021, when there was finally real hope of theater returning (sparked by the Delacorte announcing its summer schedule).

Socially distant AIR-KISS ME KATE

"Always Some for You When We Need to Ration"

Parody of "Always True to You In My Fashion"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk7noSqYlYQ

Parody lyric by Fred Landau

Feat Emily (MJ) McAleesejergins

MY FAR LADY - "I've Sewn a Costume for Your Face"

Parody of "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3RXDyle5sA

feat. Sheree Sano

Parody lyric by Fred Landau

"Elbow Connection"

"Rainbow Connection" parody 

https://youtu.be/88eQYoPzwgY - 

Feat KJ McAleesejergins

Parody lyric by Fred Landau

"Whenever I See You Touch Your Face"

Parody of "Your Smiling Face'

https://youtu.be/vYqUFVLfxTM - 

Feat. KJ McAleesejergins

Parody lyric by Fred Landau

"Together" medley - Imagining playing two great roles in socially distant versions - parodying Joanne in Company and Madame Rose in Gypsy

Parodies of "The Little Things You Do Together" and "Together Wherever We Go" 

https://youtu.be/qmwMqL3T7-Y

Parody lyric by Fred Landau

Feat Emily (MJ) McAleesejergins

"Gonna Take a Lotta Gloves" 

"Lotta Love" parody 

https://youtu.be/P92NrXCxMBw 

Parody lyric by Fred Landau 

Feat Emily (MJ) and KJ McAleesejergins

HAVE YOURSELF A VERY DISTANT CHRISTMAS - 

https://youtu.be/bBNVI5PCmiM

Parody of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"

Parody lyric by Fred Landau

Feat Sheree Sano

"Make 'Em Masks"

"Make 'Em Laugh" parody

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

Parody Lyric by Fred Landau

Performed by Emily (MJ) McAleesejergins

Hopeful future:

An original (non-parody) song - 

Music and lyric by Fred Landau

WITH MY FRIEND KILLING TIME - Doesn't 6 feet apart beat 6 feet under?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpXdp6iS40w

MASK UP FOR SHAKESPEARE - March 2021 as Shakespeare in the Park was the first major NYC venue to announce resuming performances

https://youtu.be/blbyKSx2Uu8 Parody lyric by Fred Landau

Feat. Sheree Sano

Parody-tribute recalling Emma Stone's starring on Broadway in "Cabaret" in 2014

Parody-tribute honoring Emma Stone winning the Oscar earlier this week

Recalling Emma Stone's starring on Broadway in "Cabaret" in 2014

"Go Tell Emma" (parody-tribute for "Don't Tell Mama"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmV2qmS_-5Q

Parody lyric Fred Landau, Vocal Sheree Sano