Newsical: All the Stuff That's Fit to Spoof
A Musical revue in 2 Acts: Music and lyrics by Rick Crom
Upstairs at Studio 54, Off-Broadway. Previewed from 17th September, 2004 (30 previews). Opened 7th October, 2004. Closed 17 April, 2005. (215 performances)
Synopis
Newsical takes its material from the current events and the headlines that proclaim them. The evolving work featured updated songs and material each week making the whole show a new experience each month. As it said in the promotional literature, "depending on how active our celebrities and politicians have been in making asses of themselves".
Original Cast
- Todd Alan Johnson
- Stephanie Kurtzuba
- Jeff Skowron
- Kim Cea
Musical Numbers
- Everyone's Full of S*&T
- Dubya We Love Ya
- Felt Up At the Airport
- What About Me
- I Must Have Been Stoned
- My Political Opinion
- Arnold and the Kennedys
- I Just Came to Say I'm Gay
- Martha Stewart the Musical
- Prozac Ritalin Trimspa
- Too Much Botox
- Dr Phil
- Not the Man I Married
- Hooters Air
- America Online
- Anna Nicole
- I'm An Animal
- Michael and Peter
- Nobody Messes With Liza
- Denial
Instrumentation
Piano and Drums