The Mad Show
| The Mad Show | |
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| Music | Mary Rodgers |
| Lyrics | Marshall Barer Steven Vinaver Stephen Sondheim |
| Basis | Mad Magazine |
| Productions | 1966 Off-Broadway |
The Mad Show is an Off-Broadway musical revue based on Mad Magazine. The music is by Mary Rodgers, the book by Larry Siegel and Stan Hart. The show's various lyricists include Siegel, Marshall Barer, Steven Vinaver, and Stephen Sondheim.
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[edit] Production
The revue opened on January 9, 1966, at the New Theatre, New York City, and ran for 871 performances. The original cast included Linda Lavin, Jo Anne Worley, Paul Sand, Richard Libertini, and MacIntyre Dixon. Sam Pottle conducted the music.
Joe Raposo, who later became music director for Sesame Street (a job held still later by Pottle), performed onstage as the Piano Player, who was shot during the course of each performance. He was also bludgeoned with a rubber chicken. The band's drummer was Danny Epstein, who later became Sesame Street's music coordinator from 1969 to 2009.
[edit] Musical numbers
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The lyrics of "The Boy From...", a parody of "The Girl from Ipanema", were semi-anonymously written by Stephen Sondheim. The official songwriting credit went to the linguistically minded pseudonym "Esteban Rio Nido", which translates from the German, via Spanish, to "Stephen River Nest". In the show's playbill, the lyrics were credited to "Nom de Plume".[1]
[edit] Recording
The Original cast recording LP was released in 1966 by Columbia Masterworks(OL 2930). The Original cast recording CD was re-released on February 22, 2005 by DRG Theater(ASIN: B0007514HQ).[2]
[edit] References
- ^ "'Mad Show'" Sondheim Guide, accessed July 3, 2011
- ^ listing amazon.com
[edit] External links
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