Posted this to ATC, but I don't think anyone there knows the song it's parodying, The King of Wishful Thinking, so i thought I'd try it here, too, in part so that it's on the net for posterity, or as long as HHW is googlable.
(Based on the reviews and chatter for Carrie Fisher's show WISHFUL DRINKING - I'm not seeing it until tomorrow)
THE KA-CHING OF WISHFUL DRINKING - a parody of THE KING OF WISHFUL THINKING
Here's the REAL song, if anyone wants to sing along:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry4iwzS4Na0Remember when a hundred and ten
Was only something in the shade
Now that’s the price without any ice
Because attendance must be paid
When I read New Yorker’s Talk of the Town
It’s C-Carrie Fisher by herself
I worked overtime at my low wage
Spent my savings without thinking
‘Cause it’s Princess Leia on the stage
That’s the ka-ching of “Wishful Drinking”
That's the ka-ching of "Wishful Drinking"
I don’t choose to read her reviews
They’ll prob’ly tell me way too much
They’ll give away the quips that she’ll say
‘Bout Harrison and Mark and such
Since she has left a hole in my wallet
I’ve somehow got to fool myself
That the hundred ten plus service charge
That I shelled out without blinking
Doesn’t make the tension loom so large
I hocked my bling for “Wishful Drinking”
(repeat above)
I’ll get over it I know I will
Should I have spent the dough on Jackman and Craig
Or maybe Catherine Zeta Jones
Will the audience be hip and glam
That’d help if the show is stinking
Lord let Rosie sit near where I am
Will I see Sting at “Wishful Drinking”
Or Larry King at “Wishful Drinking”
I’ll get over it, won't kvetch and cuss
She has a place in my heart
But lord I spent a hundred plus
I hope there’s zing to “Wishful Drinking”
(to fade-out)
I’ll get over it, I know I will
I’ll pretend there’s a cast of thirty
And I’ll miss Catherine Zeta Jones
To see this thing called “Wishful Drinking”
