Thursday, March 3, 2022
Parody of I'D RATHER BE BLUE -
"live from the Erasmus High School Bar in Brooklyn"
"I'D RATHER A JEW OVER YOU" - ERASMUS GUYS SEE THE TV COMMERCIAL AND ARE RELIEVED THE NEW "FUNNY GIRL…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:02AMWednesday, March 2, 2022
As James Earl Jones has a Broadway theater named for him!!!
An encore of DARTH OF YOUR WORLD -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBgUp7OrFbk
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:56PMThursday, February 10, 2022
Lookback to SO MUCH BUTTER for a fictitious PAULA DEEN STORY - as in TAP DANCE KID, Encores relived the infamous NO HEAVY ACTRESSES casting notice from GOLDEN APPLE. No insensitivity "mis…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:57AMFriday, January 21, 2022
Remembering the great artist Meat Loaf the only way this blog really can. The first time I saw him in a Broadway show was a small role in Gower Champion's production "Rockabye Hamlet." …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:44AMSunday, December 26, 2021
Here's 2021 lookback, Part 2: June to Dec. 2021 We'd loved New York in June! There had been so much hope for Broadway re-open, but that was 7 months ago, we doubt that anyone would …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:47AMMonday, December 20, 2021
2021 as reflected in our mostly-theater/cabaret blog - part 1 of 2: January through May 2021
This felt like an overall Broadway theme for 2021, that even the hopeful people were …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:28AMThursday, December 16, 2021
Now it seems unruly airline passengers are in the news!
In FLYING WITH THESE LOONS (the sequel to the TSA-security number "Fly me in the Nude") "Frankie" is on the plane and gets suspic…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:13AMThursday, November 25, 2021
Celebrating Natalie Mendoza's performance at the Macy's Parade. Her Satine in "Moulin Rouge" is a decade after her accident in "Spider Man."
Never imagined "Moulin Rouge" looking as …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:47PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
Will a Sondheim show finally go mega-premium? Let's make a wish! "Another 100 Patti Fans Got Off Of Their Phones"
In the 2010s, we saw million-dollar weeks for the FOLLIES revival, an…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:39AMMonday, November 1, 2021
This apparently has never happened before that the cover of VOGUE in the US and UK are the same person, but it is now and the press says it's a big deal. (AND for show tune lovers, Adele'…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:44PMSaturday, October 30, 2021
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 conside…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:56PMFriday, October 15, 2021
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 thea…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:38AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
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 od…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:01AMSunday, October 3, 2021
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 c…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:29PMWednesday, September 8, 2021
MAKE 'EM MASKS School Starts 2021 version
https://youtu.be/98SsvTrTkNQ Parody Lyric Fred Landau
Vocals and feat. Emily (MJ ) McAleesejergins Vocals producer KJ McAleesejergins. …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:18PMTuesday, September 7, 2021
For Rosh Hashanah
"Put Your Pain In the Hands of a Jew" - music by Skip Kennon, lyric by Fred Landauhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzpDsd_q-kSkip and I wrote this to submit for a show th…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:06PMWednesday, August 25, 2021
This was our musical about the Afghan war, a musical drama but as musicals mostly seem to need, always with a thought to leaving the audience with a feeling of recovery and optimism …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:35AMFriday, August 6, 2021
A Gov. Cuomo covid-era retrospective
NEW!
The Albany Interpreter in the little circle onscreen from the July 26 press conference -
explains Gov. Cuomo's "We Cannot Go Backwards" them…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:43PMTuesday, July 20, 2021
Starting with "The Lady With All the Answers" and "Closer Than Ever"
- Tribute Judith Ivey's lovely performance as Ann Landers / Eppie Lederer
DOWNTOWN ABBY / UPTOWN ANN LANDERS
ht…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:19AMSunday, July 18, 2021
CHAPEL OF LOVE parody -as NY ends virtual weddings
https://youtu.be/lRAouQwsP1E
Parody Lyric Fred Landau. Vocal-Vid.Sheree Sano
tribute to Corey Kilgannon's New York Times article
Wh…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:48PMSunday, July 4, 2021
Ready to snap? The 1776-Addams Family cross-over
"The John and Abigail Adams Family theme song" - as it might have been adapted by the writers of "1776"
https://youtu.be/4bUcJKIYFyw
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:05PMSaturday, June 26, 2021
SALUTE TO THE 2021-22 SEASON OPENINGS (PART 1)
(also a July 4 "1776" "Adams Family" cross-over)
Company
"Another Hundred Patti Fans Got Off Of Their Phones"
https://youtu.be/biOPO57uQ1…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:06PMFriday, June 4, 2021
HERE'S A RECAP:
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.
With hope we…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:46PMThursday, May 20, 2021
Dear Senators Skoufis, Kaplan and Hoylman,
It is heartening to read in the recent Forbes article that some of the abuses, like the pricing abuses, by Broadway producers that have come al…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 05:04PMSaturday, May 8, 2021
The ads 10 years ago for THE MOTHER WITH THE HAT
looked (to some chatters) like the perfect present for Mother's Day, and it cried out for a song.
https://youtu.be/1_gG1vJGOFk
Not a…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:20PMThursday, May 6, 2021
To mark a Broadway news week that will live in Covid history as EITHER (a) the lunacy OR (b) the audacity - of Cuomo's arbitrariness:
Cuomo proclaimed this week we are ready for full theat…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:10AMSaturday, April 17, 2021
Since its what's in theater news - lookback on parody-tributes of Rudin Company shows
Hello Dolly! - 2017
PUT ON YOUR TONY GOWN. https://youtu.be/hv4JujI26zM
The Music Man -
TILL WE …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 01:37PMThursday, April 15, 2021
Defying Gravity Parody FROM 2010 - Coincidentally , this is the first video we did after the destructive business gaslighting by then-Davenport Theatricals' Jen Tepper and Encores' videogr…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:20AMMonday, April 5, 2021
Urgent Parody update - and if anything can be called a parody emergency, this could be it:
Despite a gazillion (very rough estimate) coincidental similarities with Paul Zindel's play, "…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:30PMSunday, April 4, 2021
To join the celebration of the 50th birthday of FOLLIES -
both of these done by approval and arrangement with then-publisher Carlin America.
"I'm Still Queer" - This got into Michael M…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:04PMFriday, March 19, 2021
Mask Up For Shakespeare -
as the Delacorte announcement for Free Shakespeare this summer brings a very rare touch of optimism for live theater in NYC -
YouTube link is https://youtu.b…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:20PM 
