Hellooo everyone. I wrote this a while ago now. The idea came to me when I was thinking about Christmas presents, and I thought of theatre tickets- this led to me thinking 'Musicals, oh how I love musicals' (because I do), and due to my obsessive and wandering mind, guess which tune I mentally sang that to? Yep. So I decided to rewrite the entire song! It's not a work of art, but it was fun to write. I hope you at least vaguely enjoy it.
By the way, it's sung by someone who has been very successful in the world of musicals, to someone who writes plays.
Disclaimer: If I owned Wicked, this would play during the interval. If I owned the song 'Popular', every time I heard it I would jump up screaming "THAT'S MY SONG!! WHEEE!!!"
As you can see, I own neither.
Musicals
A rewrite of 'Popular'
Whenever I hear dialogue
That's dull as dull can be,
And let's face it, which isn't?
As dull as dull can be,
The tired sound,
So profound, indeed,
Oh, how it needs to be redone
To make it just a bit more fun
I know- I know, exactly, what it needs…
And even in this play,
Though it's the hardest play up to this day,
Don't worry, I'll make it something great,
Just you all wait,
And I'll create
One of my…
Musicals,
Oh how I love musicals,
They just add a song
To move plots along
Don't bother with all the fuss
I'll show you which words will stay,
Ones to throw away,
Everything that do you must
To make musicals,
I'll help you make musicals!
You'll cut all unneeded quotes
And replace with notes
Add in a song or two million,
So let's write-
'Cause there's a lot to be rewritten.
Don't be intimidated by the task ahead
Just think of the musical that you'll see at the end,
Now that I'm helping there'll be no more
"he, she said"
It'll be better,
Each and every letter,
'Cause it'll be a musical,
I know about musicals,
Turn words into song,
And you'll bring along
The happiness that none can kill- lull,
There's nothing that can stop you
From writing a musical.
Cul.
La la, la la,
We're gonna write some
Mu-si-cals.
When I hear depressing dialogue,
My attention begins to fog,
I have to remind the actors soon
That there are
Such successful lyricists
Rich and famous song composers,
Did they act without music?
Don't make me laugh!
They wrote musicals! Please-
We all love musicals,
Just add in a catchy tune
And we'll join in soon
So it's a good idea to be,
Writing many musicals,
Like me!
And though you insist,
You're happy with this,
I know eventually…
You will stand up and choose it
Your newfound musicality!
La, la, la, la,
You'll write musicals!
Just not, quite as many,
As,
Me!
Wheee!!!