Time to close Firefox when I go watch TV, I guess.

“Less Miserable”

Do you hear the people sing,

Singing the hit songs from Les Mis’.

It is the best show of a classic,

Since they modernized ‘The Wiz’.

Better learn the songs by heart,

And if you don’t they’ll call you dumb.

They’ll be atop the record chart

When the British come!

…..

Do you hear the people sing,

All of the new songs from Les Mis’?

Even the great Andrew Lloyd Webber

Wished the songs were really his!…”

It’s a 10-minute long parody of the entire play, taking excerpts from almost every song.

“At the end of the play we’re another year older.

And we’re often exhausted from playing the poor.

Randy Graf fell in the band,

And the turntable’s making us dizzy,

‘Til the man yells a command,

And it’s throwing us all in a tizzy,

And there’s gonna be hell to pay…

At the end of the play.”

Great stuff, hehe.

I did the orchestra pit all through high school (it sounds silly, but we were one of those GOOD high schools) and it sounds like something we would have come up with… Ah, good times. Good, hilarious, always-up-to-no-good times…

“Less Miserable”

Do you hear the people sing,

Singing the hit songs from Les Mis’.

It is the best show of a classic,

Since they modernized ‘The Wiz’.

Better learn the songs by heart,

And if you don’t they’ll call you dumb.

They’ll be atop the record chart

When the British come!

…..

Do you hear the people sing,

All of the new songs from Les Mis’?

Even the great Andrew Lloyd Webber

Wished the songs were really his!…”

It’s a 10-minute long parody of the entire play, taking excerpts from almost every song.

“At the end of the play we’re another year older.

And we’re often exhausted from playing the poor.

Randy Graf fell in the band,

And the turntable’s making us dizzy,

‘Til the man yells a command,

And it’s throwing us all in a tizzy,

And there’s gonna be hell to pay…

At the end of the play.”

Great stuff, hehe.

For the wretched of the earth/ There is a flame that never dies/ Even the darkest night will end/ And the sun will rise./ They will live again in freedom/In the garden of the Lord./ They will walk behind the ploughshare/ They will put away the sword.

So, not only does it mention crusades, but also hangin’ out in the garden of the Lord, which they kind of gave up on in the past couple of years, which might be part of their problem, especially as they didn’t either walk behind the ploughshare, even as they DID put away the sword.

So, you see, they’re in trubble.

Thanks!

Honestly, Bubbles, I was afraid that my mainly manly, militaristic, tough-guy readership wouldn’t recognize it. But I was wrong!