Music Man

I fully admit that my only reason for writing this song parody was the opportunity to write “Twitterin’” where the original song had “fritterin’,” but it kind of took on a life of its own. (The “Trouble” song from The Music Man is surprisingly hard to parody for a song that has few rhymes, because most of the song is metrical patter, so you have to write unrhymed lines that fit the original metre exactly, except for that one section near the end that’s just spoken.)

Via Mark Evanier, this 2007 clip of members of the Boston University Stage Troupe doing the opening number from The Music Man on the bus is pretty cool. (For those who haven’t seen The Music Man, the opening number is a patter piece for a bunch of salesman, accompanied only by the clickety-clack of the train. They’re just using the bus noise instead.)