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Make Me a Musical! (or why I have been out of circulation)

By Old Grumpy Guy on February 7, 2010 at 11:22 PM in Humor, Music, OldGrumpyGuy, Political Correctness, Satire

This video explains why I haven’t uploaded many videos lately. It is the first in a three-part series that tells of a musical I have been working on, which I hope will at least provide some entertainment for my friends on No Quater and on my Youtube channel.

If you enjoy musicals, you might enjoy this affectionate parody of musicals in general and some of the great classic musicals like West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Damn Yankees, Singing In The Rain, a Chorus Line, Hello Dolly, How to Succeed in Business (Without Really Trying), and a number of others.

Two more videos are to follow (unless everyone hates the first one!)`

Naturally, my prejudices are evident in the video, even if it is about something as seemingly innocuous as musicals. Political correctness is one of them.

  • lark

    why I have been out of circulation

    Does Johnny Dannon play a mean fiddle?

  • WestVirginia304

    Hey, Old Man.  Welcome back. 

  • WestVirginia304

    Forgive me for politicizing a serious subject for us.  Be we are awash with armatures.

    I just watched your video.  It is much too long.

    Promote your stuff.  OK.  But tell me something, old man.

    I’ve been first and last
    Look at how the time goes past.
    But I’m all alone at last.
    Rolling home to you.

    Old man take a look at my life
    I’m a lot like you
    I need someone to love me
    the whole day through
    Ah, one look in my eyes
    and you can tell that’s true.

  • Tricia

    Welcome back Grumpy!  Missed you!  You are a very talented man.  Thanks for sharing with us!

  • buzzlatte

    Hey!  Glad you’re back!

  • EllenD

    Hey, welcome back! I’m going to save this as something special for my lunchtime tomorrow.
    And I don’t think of you as old, no matter what your moniker.

  • Jon

    I’m so glad you’re back! Very interesting video! Thanks for sharing it with us!

  • lark

    Old Grumpy, you came just in time with the title I wanted to read. Is a miracle. 

    I want you to make me a musical called THE THEPRESSING MUSE-eCAL.

    SCENE ONE: It would show gangs of black Haitian boys with a few old men and a few ex-convicts raping and beating black Haitian women, many of them inmobilized not because of the terror of the rape but because of their injuries from the earthquake. Remember don’t make the rape a terrorist act – make the earthquake the terrorist act. That way God and Christians and Bush can be blamed for the rapes.

    SCENE TWO: It would feature a heroic corps (pronounced korps) of 10 Baptist American from Idaho intending of saving the day, with 33 Haitian children trying to cross the border to DR in the same way Julia Robinson crossed it in that other musical we love to pieces. In scene two the heroine (main actress) needs to get beaten and rape in jail along with two other woman as an experiential existential theme to make sure the plot stresses objective observable reality.

    SCENE THREE: I would like to see a corps (pronounced kor this time)(remember two different pronunciations for corps) of government officials justifying themselves and the laws of the land – like in the other musical. It needs to include a corps of foreign Dept of State officials and a heroic UN official and Red Cross officials that come to support the local officials. In that scene you need to include the exchange of a whole lot of money – and at the end everyone dancing a happy dance but money flying all over the stage raining from the top.

    Can you do a thepressing muse-e-cal like that for me?

  • lark

    Old Grumpy, you came just in time with the title I wanted to read. Is a miracle.   
     
    I want you to make me a musical called THE THEPRESSING MUSE-eCAL.  
     
    SCENE ONE: It would show gangs of black Haitian boys with a few old men and a few ex-convicts raping and beating black Haitian women, many of them inmobilized not because of the terror of the rape but because of their injuries from the earthquake. Remember don’t make the rape a terrorist act – make the earthquake the terrorist act. That way God and Christians and Bush can be blamed for the rapes.  
     
    SCENE TWO: It would feature a heroic corps (pronounced korps) of 10 Baptist American from Idaho intending of saving the day, with 33 Haitian children trying to cross the border to DR in the same way Julia Robinson crossed it in that other musical we love to pieces. In scene two the heroine (main actress) needs to get beaten and rape in jail along with two other woman as an experiential existential theme to make sure the plot stresses objective observable reality.  
     
    SCENE THREE    : I would like to see a corps (pronounced kor this time)(remember two different pronunciations for corps) of government officials justifying themselves and the laws of the land – like in the other musical. It needs to include a corps of foreign Dept of State officials and a heroic UN official and Red Cross officials that come to support the local officials. In that scene you need to include the exchange of a whole lot of money – and at the end everyone dancing a happy dance but money flying all over the stage raining from the top.  
     
    Can you do a thepressing muse-e-cal like that for me?

  • OldGrumyGuy

    Too depressing!

  • lark

    Old Grumpy, have you noticed that Obama does not need to rehearse anymore. He can do several performances a day with no problem and look good in each one. Do you still subscribe to the belief that ‘practice makes perfect’?

    Do you not think that Obama may become with time the most accomplished public persona of all times?

    In his musical, Obama is always in circulation. =-O

  • mountainaires

    Looking forward to more, Old Grumpy, Great work! 

  • lady dawnelle

    Aged P thought you were buried under that church pew in the snow!

  • oowawa

    Dear Old Grumpy Guy, you had abandoned us primitives on the colonial shores, and it’s sad to say, we may have culturally backslid a bit, much like the boys stranded on the island in Lord of the Flies.  Indeed, there has been a resurgence in talk about Frank Zappa on No Quarter in recent days.  Please do not abandon us so summarily again, lest we revert to chanting “‘Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!’”  Good to see you.

  • oowawa

    Oh yes–sorry for being so rude as not to mention your production!  After watching it a couple of times, I liked all of the songs, all cleverly matched to the scenes you selected.  My favorite at this stage is “Ordinary Girl” as sung by Claire Moore.  Very “catchy!”

  • lark

    Grumpy, expect Sec. of State Hillary Clinton to go to Haiti to make a forceful and assertive speech against Iran’s intention to process uranium to a higher effective rate.

  • EllenD

    I didn’t think it was too long.

    we are awash with armatures.

    Someone is doing sculpture?

  • EllenD

    I saw it! Great pitch!
    It may need a stronger hook – how about gay midgets dressed like dogs?
    Just thought I’d get you used to the comments  you’re going to get ;)

  • EllenD

    Look, this is about Grumpy’s work. Go hijack another thread.
    Or, if you feel like getting on a soapbox, write something coherent and submit it to NQ.
    In any case, you are being extremely rude.

  • Diana L. C.

    Grumpy!

    I am so happy to have you back posting at NQ!  I went ahead to take a look on your YouTube link. 

    I like your musical.  We just had a long article about high school musicals in our state–Colorado.  Musicals are so much fun, and I like your message about “hype.”  I also liked the way you matched scenes from old musicals with the songs.  I am so jealous of your talent.

    Great Job, and good luck with it.  I hope to see it performed someday.

    (Oh, yes, that was not the nightingale. or even a real lark, as in “the herald of the morn.”  But it probably did “pierce the fearful hollow of thine ear.”  She’s just a strange new bird here at NQ who rationalizes her own ignorance about the pronunciation of the word “corpsman” by claiming that Obama really knew how the word “corpsmen” was supposed to be pronounced when he pronounced it three times as “corpsemen” during a speech.  He was making some kind of anti-military statement, that’s all, according to her. 

    Right now she is fixated on the Baptists who were prosecuted for taking Haitian children out of Haiti illegally.  Pay her no mind and she’ll eventually leave us alone.)

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Well grumpy you look refreshed or maybe younger (lol) the rest must of done you good!

    Great youtube! great to see you back…

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Yes nothing wrong in being just an  “Ordinary Girl” oowawa!

  • Tricia

    Lark, you are a hoot!

  • OldGrumyGuy

    gay midgets dressed like dogs?   Too much of a cliche

  • OldGrumyGuy

    Thanks oowawa

  • OldGrumyGuy

    Yes, one cannot let up in the cultural war

  • AnnieCarmel

    You don’t think OGG had a “little work done” do you?

    Hi OGG, glad to see you again!  Keep up the good work.  That was fun.

  • rw

    nice to read your posts again. could have done without the Streisand singing….seeing her singing made me think of South Park’s episode when Robert Smith saved the world from the Streisand grating, annoying voice…