NCassadine has provided ATC with yet another brilliant parody; this time taking on Applause at Encores! I hope he doesn’t mind my reposting it here. It’s pretty brilliant and hilarious.
COMPANY OF APPLAUSE
This is dusty and corny and dated
tired, forlorny and yes, overrated
Let’s revive!
Let’s revive!
Let’s revive!
This is rotten, forgotten, affected,
All of the numbers are over directed
Let’s revive!
Let’s revive!
Let’s revive!
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE
I wish I were home in Jersey
Chicken soup and cherry Halls ™
Maybe you can’t hear the lyrics
God I hope the curtain falls!
ALL
And this is silly and dripping with drama
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE
I can be Margo if Patti is Mama
ALL
Not an ounce of lust
Showing off the rust
Knowing that we must revive!
(generic 70s music)
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE shows up at the Monster.
GAY MEN and assorted VILLAGE PEOPLE
LITTLE EDIE!
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE
Fasten your seatbelts – it’s gonna be a bumpy night!
AUDIENCE GOES NUTS AT THE RECOGNITION OF A LINE FROM THE MOVIE!
ALL
Put down your torches, now that we’ve sung (eh, eh, eh, eh, eh) the famous line!
Put down your torches, follow the weird melodic line
Ensemble numbers, they could sure use a redesign.
Make the noise,
Just get past the bumpy line.
MEGAN SIKORA
What stops a show from workin’ out?
The flaws, the flaws.
Who has the plot? What’ve you got
but major flaws?
You’re rooting for Eve
then Bonnie’s the star
You never believe
what you’re watching
And now you’re plum distracted by
those glaring flaws
Casting’s a mess, book is a guess
but we refuse to distress cause
the words are sublime
now here comes the rhyme
The flaws! The flaws! The flaws!
The lights dim, and CHRISTINE EBERSOLE takes center stage.
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE
Welcome to the Encores!
to the clunkers, to the flops
where jokes are old and rather stale
where characters are hard to nail
and subtetly is all for naught
Now you’ve entered City Center
What an eyesore, it’s true
Legroom’s unheard of and
renovation’s overdue
But welcome, Erin Davie
past the garden we called grey
You’re on your path to bigger parts
Just learn to smile and win their hearts
You’ll be miscast but you’ll hit the charts
from New York to Santa Fe
So,welcome to the theatre
My dear, you’re on display!