For Jewish New Year 5782, and Counting down to Yom Kippur: by Fred Landau

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 …

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 5:06pm on September 7, 2021☆⚑

This was the show Marian Weiner and I had written 2015-2017 about the aftermath of the Afghan War for a Long Island family (we did it "on location in by Fred Landau

  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 opt…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 4:35am on August 25, 2021☆⚑

A Gov. Cuomo covid-era retrospective, before the Cuomo story becomes so serious that it's non-PC to laugh about it. by Fred Landau

 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…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 8:43pm on August 6, 2021☆⚑

With the news of the legendary Cherry Lane Theatre changing ownership TRYING A CHERRY LANE THEATRE LOOKBACK, by Fred Landau

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 10:19am on July 20, 2021☆⚑

CHAPEL OF LOVE parody -as NY ends virtual weddings - tribute to NYT article Why Virtual Weddings Are No Longer Legal in New York by Fred Landau

 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 articleÅ

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:48pm on July 18, 2021☆⚑

Are you feeling ready to snap? - John and Abigail Adams Family Theme - REPRISE FOR JULY 4TH by Fred Landau

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 12:05pm on July 4, 2021☆⚑

SALUTE TO THE 2021-22 SEASON OPENINGS PART 1 - Company, The Music Man, TheLehman Trilogy (the 3 hour saga in 8 minutes) by Fred Landau

 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/biOPO57u…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 5:06pm on June 26, 2021☆⚑

Looking back at the shutdown time - Though laughing and singing don't make a problem go away, they can help your outlook, and THAT can make you deal w by Fred Landau

 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 …

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:46pm on June 4, 2021☆⚑

Here's the full letter to NYS senators Skoufis, Kaplan and Hoylman about human rights retaliation issues and producers in premium era, as they had a h by Fred Landau

 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 …

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 5:04pm on May 20, 2021☆⚑

10 years ago - The ads for THE MOTHER WITH THE HAT looked (to some chatters) like the perfect present for Mother's Day! by Fred Landau

 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_gG1vJGOFkÂ…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 6:20pm on May 8, 2021☆⚑

To mark a "say-what?" Gov. Cuomo Broadway news week that will live in EITHER (a) the lunacy OR (b) the audacity - of unscientific arbitrariness: by Fred Landau

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 the…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 4:10am on May 6, 2021☆⚑

Since its what's in theater news - lookback on parody-tributes of Rudin Company shows by Fred Landau

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 -  TI…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 1:37pm on April 17, 2021☆⚑

Crying Poverty (FROM 2010 about Madoff scandal) - We're already finding sympathy on the web for Ruth Madoff. So before this becomes non-PC... by Fred Landau

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' video…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:20am on April 15, 2021☆⚑

Urgent Parody update - Despite a gazillion (rough estimate) similarities with Paul Zindel's play, "Shape of Water" is exonerated. What is the effect by Fred Landau

 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 pla…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:30pm on April 5, 2021☆⚑

To join the celebration of the 50th birthday of FOLLIES by Fred Landau

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 Mic…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:04pm on April 4, 2021☆⚑

Let's "Mask Up for Shakespeare" - As the Delacorte summer plans bring NYC theater some needed optimism by Fred Landau

 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://y…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 7:20pm on March 19, 2021☆⚑

Lyric first heard in our virtual revue "Labor Day - The Re-opening" - Gov. Cuomo - a take on "You're So Vain" by Fred Landau

 Our Emmy-winning Gov. Cuomo featured in a take on "You're So Vain" https://youtu.be/ewpDo0XSGlc this lyric was first heard in our virtual revue  "Labor Day - The Re-opening" https:/…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:53am on February 18, 2021☆⚑

For Valentine's Day: - a few original theater love songs by Fred Landau

 For Valentine's Day: original theater love songs  "Is It Mushy to Say I Love You" somehow passed 73,000 views http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZfjTLHl1s "Brooklyn Boy" https://youtu.…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:13am on February 13, 2021☆⚑

This non-parody showtune number was on a sincere note. by Fred Landau

 This non-parody showtune number  was on a  sincere note.   Any hope of us getting a 2021 Biden/Harris optimism like we had back in pust-crash  January 2009 with Obama/Bide…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:47am on January 29, 2021☆⚑

"Vaccinating Rhythm" - maybe a little morbid lightness will make the time go faster. by Fred Landau

 Oy, what a day! The slow progress of the vaccine may be less immediate, but maybe OK for a little morbid lightness. "Vaccinating Rhythm" -  https://youtu.be/fgg2pGUmZXo

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:58pm on January 6, 2021☆⚑

Our year-end 2020 Blog Year in almost all show tune salutes or parodies by Fred Landau

 Our year-end 2020 Blog Year in almost all show tune  salutes January "The Hollywood Gown" series tried to pick up where it was  interrupted in 2013 - Jennifer Aniston and Brad …

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 2:27pm on December 25, 2020☆⚑

Honoring Rebecca Luker by Fred Landau

 In the Times obit, it's mentioned that Danny and Rebecca met on the show "Time and Again, " which Skip wrote with Jack Viertel, though they started dating the following year, Â…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 12:12pm on December 24, 2020☆⚑

Saluting Irish Rep for really stepping up as an example: We offer a pragmatic-for-2020 "Meet Me on Zoom in St Louis". by Fred Landau

 An off-B'way parody-tribute: Saluting the Irish Rep with a pragmatic-in-2020 "Meet Me on Zoom in St Louis" https://youtu.be/bBNVI5PCmiM"Have a Merry Distant Christmas (and Have it Y…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:21am on December 11, 2020☆⚑

Remembering actor David Prowse, who became best known embodying Darth Vader by Fred Landau

 A quick "Darth of Your World" - the parody asks: Will we ever get to see Darth Vader in "Disney's Star Wars" onstage? https://youtu.be/zBgUp7OrFbk R.I.P. David Prowse, the distinguishe…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 9:25pm on December 6, 2020☆⚑

If you've started looking for musical material for the holiday season' by Fred Landau

For the Rockefeller Center "scrawny Christmas tree" controversy.  Is it really worse than any earlier trees before they were decorated, or is it just hitting us as sad because it's 2020.…

SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 1:36am on November 23, 2020☆⚑