BK - Yes, more of the lyrics features like your excellent ones in today's Notes. It's even needed to remind people that parody is not just for a select few lyricists.
Warning: Pointed kvetching in the next few paragraphs!
It's starting to feel like Randy Rainbow and Forbidden Broadway are "owning" the theater-music parody world these days, and the rest of us are in many ways getting told why bother!
I was routinely getting YouTube comments like "Forbidden Broadway already parodied that song, why would you do a video to that tune?" Or "Randy Rainbow does the greatest Trump videos, why are you trying to compete with him by doing a Trump video?"
Last year in February 2024, some very persistent theater attorney was taking direct aim at trying to cancel my parody lyrics in the Times comments, lyrics which the Times had not only allowed but actively encouraged uninterrupted for over 14 years - and the attempt to cancel those lyrics happened literally three days before Forbidden Broadway announced its then-intended Broadway production. This theater lawyer even wrote me very convincing-looking emails under the name of an actual New York Times editor, except that it made no sense that any actual New York Times editor would be sending emails that looked like legal arguments!)
