Good morning, all! I stayed up too late working on the New Haven Symphony piece, and I would like nothing better than to spend another couple of hours asleep. Instad, I have a trek to Toyland and its environs today, mostly a tidy-up of the office and a page count of several scores.
After that, I shall return, work some more on the score, and do some apartment tidying, since tomorrow the Mac Man arrives to tune up my computer. I hope he can finally solve the email problem. I'm able to retrieve my emails through Roadrunner's Webmail, which I use when I'm out of town, but I'm so used to my email format on Netscape that I am quite unhappy with the Webmail's format. It's too much.
edi, I need to ponder your question, but my immediate answer would be that I like a good parody, no matter what form it takes, and I thought SPAMALOT was a hoot. My mind is running slow this morning, but there have been shows in the past that parodied the genre or other shows. The Weber-Fields company at the turn of the 20th Century made a great success with their comic - sometimes musical - versions of theatrical successes on Broadway, sending up "serious artists" such as David Belasco, Maeterlink, and the Barrymores with a troupe of comedians including Marie Dressler, Fay Templeton, Mabel Barrison, and Lilian Russell.
Martin Gottfried was partial to a flop in the 70s called SMITH, which kicked around a lot of musical comedy conventions, and DAMES AT SEA, THE BOYFRIEND, and LITTLE MARY SUNSHINE have been around for 50 years now. Everything old is new again.
