What do you say, guys? Isn't it time for a revival of SIZZLE '76, that bawdy revue that made a star out of C.C. Bloom, featuring the hit "Otto Titsling?"
Or how about a cross the pond transfer of ELEPHANT, the brilliant RSC musical of "The Elephant Man?"
And shouldn't encores really be looking at Madeline Ashford's last starring vehicle -- SONGBIRD, THE SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH MUSICAL? All together now, "I See Me, I See Me..."
Any other suggestions? We do after all finally have SPRINGTIME FOR HITLER performing around the country. Updated On: 8/4/05 at 11:41 AM
Oh, Elephant!, the show from The Tall Guy, with Jeff Goldblum and Emma Thompson, certainly gets my vote. Remember the tap-dancing elephants? Hilarious!
Somewhere in heaven, there's an angel with big ears
And how about "Oh, Streetcar!", the musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire from The Simpsons?
New Orleans! Home of pirates, drunks and whores New Orleans! Tacky overpriced souvenir stores
If you want to go to hell, you should take a trip To the Sodom and Gomorrah of the Mississip'
You forgot CHECKING IN - the Betty Ford Center musical from The Simpsons.
By the way, long before "The Tall Guy", SCTV did an Elephant Man musical starring Amthony Newley (played by Eugene Levy)singing the title song to the tune of "The Candy Man".
And what about the Off-Broadway musical that starred Joey Tribbiani as Sigmund Freud?
John Travolta's musical in "Staying Alive" was called Satan's Alley. I loved it because not only does he re-choreograph it during opening night, improvising the plot & steps on stage, but the lighting was such that it looked like lasers were pointed directly into the audience, causing a friend to observe- "Perhaps that's why the opening night audience is cheering- they've been blinded and can't see a thing!"
Let's not forget "Rochelle, Rochelle!" The musical that starred Bette Midler on "Seinfeld" that chronicled "A young girls erotic journey from Milan to Minsk" in song.
How could we forget Rochelle, Rochelle, Joe? "A young girl's STRANGE erotic journey from Milan to Minsk".
Oh, you've made a long journey from Milan to Minsk. Rochelle, Rochelle! You never stoped hoping, now you're in the pinsk. Rochelle, Rochelle!
When the naysayers nay, you pick up the pace. You said, "Nothing's gonna stop me, so get out of my face!" I'm having adventures all over the place! Rochelle, Rochelle!!
I saw an Amanda Green/Tom Kitt song called "Knockin' 'em Back" written for a screenplay with Christine Ebersole's character performing the number from Betty!: The Betty Ford musical. It was so hysterical I couldn't stop laughing long after it was over.
Going way back....does anyone remember the show SQUARE PEGS starring Sarah Jessica Parker? She gets the lead in her high school musical -- "A CAFETERIA LINE"
featuring such great lyrics as:
"How do you make chicken fried steak? How do you eat mystery meat? You don't know how I felt, when I shared your tuna melt. I'd love to sit and watch while you are stuffin, your pretty little face with a pizza muffin."
I remember Square Pegs, with its theme by The Waitresses. It now airs every now and then on HDNet.
Sluggy, you've reminded me of a variation on Phantom of the Opera from the show Wings, called Phantom of the Oprah, a musical that takes place on the set of The Oprah Winfrey Show, with Fay as Oprah.
Speaking of all the musicals and musical parodies on The Simpsons reminded me of similiar epsiodes on the cartoon series Animaniacs. I remember a Les Miserables parody entitled "Les Miser-animals" which part of was sung by Rita the cat (voiced by none other than Bernadette Peters). I also recall another musical parody done during a "Goodfeathers" episode, as well as an episode where the Warners enteracted with a cartoon version of Andrew Lloyd Webber, or at least it was a character who was supposed to resemble Lloyd Webber. Does anyone else remember any of these? It has probably been a decade since I have seen them.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
Animaniacs did great musical parodies! The Goodfeathers did Fiddler and West Side Story. The one with Andrew Lloyd Webber had parodies of songs from Sunset Boulevard, Phantom, Evita and Cats. They also did a Gilbert & Sullivan parody. Lots of goodies for theater-lovers in that show.
But as to the original question...if they ever did the rap version of Snow White ala "Saved by the Bell," that would run longer than Cats, Phantom and Les Mis combined.
Does anyone remember Get a Life! with Chris Elliot? Remember the musical they put on that had zoo animals on roller skates? If I recall, Chris was a wildebeest or something, and got to deliver a solo number.