I hope everyone is having a fun time. Is everybody having fun?
Funny, funny fun. Oh my God, you guys! Thanks for coming!
Oh my God! I didn't know you all would be here. - Daniel.
- Lauren! Another Lauren!
- Daniel!
Oh my goodness. - Daniel
Oh, Mark! Yes?
- Daniel, what are you doing? Oh I'm just having so much fun. Isn't this such a great show? Daniel yes, but We have to be out of here by 10:45 on the dot or they will... fine us. We haven't even begun to scrape
the surface of the musical th
eater canon! I mean like, we haven't even touched Mel Brooks! [Daniel and crowd gasps loudly] Well, by God, let's touch him!
[Crowd Laughs] What do you mean?
- Oh, Lauren, Lauren, Lauren.
[inhales sharply ] Step One! [Bell tone]
We gather some of the the best character songs
Mel Brooks has ever written!
[Crowd cheers] [Bell tone] Step Two:
We hire the best Musical Director in town!
James Stryska on the piano!
[Applause] Step Three: [Bell tone]
We get $2 million! Two?
- Yes, one for me, one
for you.
And all in ticket sales alone!
Thank you. Thank you very much
[Crowd laughs] Yes.
In ticket sales alone!
And Step Four: [Bell tone] We hire the best comedic
musical theater actors in New York!
Give it up! [Crowd Cheers] Oh yeah, baby.
And we do - get this. And we do a 7 minute MEL-dley. Get it? Mel.
Mel Brooks. MEL-dley at 54 Below And before you can say Step Five, [Bell tone]
We end the show and skedaddle out of here at 10:44 on the dot!
[Piano vamps] - On the dot?! I don't thi
nk could be done. I don't know...
[Piano vamps] Oh ye of little faith.
[Piano riffs] [Bell tone] [Music]
♪ What did Lewis say to Clark when everything looked bleak? ♪ What did Sir Edmond say to Tenzing
as they struggle toward Everest Peak? ♪ What did Washington say to his troops
as they cross the Delaware?
♪ I'm sure you're well aware ♪ What did they say say? ♪ We can do it. We can do it.
♪ We can do it me and you ♪ We can do it. We can do it.
♪ We can make our dreams come true ♪ Everything
you've ever wanted is just waiting to be had
♪ Beautiful girls wearing nothing but pearls ♪ Caressing you undressing you and driving you mad! ♪ We can do it! We can do it.
♪ This is not a time to shirk ♪ We can do it. You won't rue it
♪ Say goodbye to petty clerks ♪ Hi producer!
♪ - Yes producer?
♪ I mean you sir. Go berserk! ♪ We can do it!
♪ - We can do it! do it
[Together] ♪ And I know it's gonna work! ♪ The brain!
♪ There is nothing like the brain
[Crowd cheers] ♪ Hearts and lungs are
simply tinker toys
when stacked against the brain! ♪ Insane
♪ I'm insane about the brain ♪ There's no organ in the universe that's equal to the brain ♪ The mouth's a marvel when it comes to eating
♪ I've nothing against the womb [Laughs] ♪ I thank the bladder when I'm excreting
and I always give the elbow room ♪ But the brain
♪ Please allow me to explain ♪ There's no organ can compare to it. I swear to it.
♪ It's plain ♪ It's the brain!
Now for today's demonstration we have -
- Uhm ♪ Drea
m all you want, my darling
[Applause]
♪ Of every lustful situation ♪ Those naughty thoughts are fine with me
♪ As long as they stay locked away ♪ In your imagination ♪ You can hug me till I scream
♪ If it's only in a dream
♪ But please. Don't. Touch me
[Crowd laughs] ♪ You can feel me till I squeal
♪ Just as long as it's not real
♪ But please. Don't. Touch me ♪ You can stick me, you can lick me,
♪ You can pinch me till I'm blue ♪ You can bite me and delight me till I'm blind ♪ You can sava
ge me and ravage me
♪ I care not what you do ♪ If the lovely filthy things you do are only in your mind ♪ You can spank me till I'm red if it's only in your head
♪ But please. Don't. Touch me ♪ You can have me don't you see if it's just a fantasy
♪ But please don't - [in Swedish accent]
♪ When I was just a little girl in Sweden
[Crowd uproars] ♪ My thoughtful mother gave me me this advice
♪ Now if nature blesses you from top to bottom ♪ Show that top to bottom!
♪ Don't think twice! Now Oola
belt
♪ Don't think twice! ♪ When you got it, share it
♪ Let the public feast upon your charm ♪ People say that being prim is proper
♪ But every show girl knows that Prim will stop her ♪ When you got it, give it!
♪ Don't be selfish give it all away
♪ - Don't be shy, be bold and cute!
[Music] ♪ - [in a hoarse voice] Show the boys your birthday suit! ♪ When you got it, ooh!
♪ Once you got it ♪ If you got it, shout out-
[in German accent] - He was my boyfriend!
[Crowd laughs] [Cast yells] He
was your boyfriend? Yes
[Crowd laughs] [Music] [in German accent] ♪ He was a bully und a brute
♪ He vas as crazy as a coot ♪ But I didn't give a hoot!
♪ He vas my boyfriend
[Applause] ♪ With every voman he would flirt
♪ He alvays treated me like dirt but I vas happy to be hurt ♪ He vas my boyfriend ♪ I vas as pure as a virgin meadow
♪ Lying with Victor in the gloam ♪ Then he came to me, that charmer,
whispered "Let's play farmer"
♪ And he plowed me till the cows came home! ♪ If he had an an
gry fit
♪ I vas the first thing that he'd hit
♪ But I didn't give a shit ♪ He vas my ♪ boyfriend
[Applause]
Victor, why are we walking this way? [Crowd laughs and cheers] [Scattered applause] ♪ I was just a paper hanger
♪ No one more obscurer ♪ Got a phone call from the Reichstag
♪ Told me ♪ I was Fuhrer
♪ Germany was blue
♪ Oh, what oh what to do? ♪ Hitched up my pants and conquered France
♪ Now Deutschland's smiling through ♪ It ain't no mystery if it's politics or history
♪ The thing
you got to know is everything is show biz! ♪ Heil myself ♪ Watch my show.
♪ I'm the German Ethel Merman, don't you know? ♪ We are crossing borders
♪ The New World Order is here! ♪ Make a great big smile
Everyone say heil -
[Cast yells disruptions] [Piano plays out of tune] [Crowd laughs]
Whoa! Whoa! ♪ Forget about the fox trot
♪ Throw away the waltz
♪ Take away the two step and all that other schmultz ♪ Are you ready for what's been going on
♪ It's a doozy, makes you woozy.
♪ It's the new
phenomen [Vocalizes] [Applause] ♪ Have you heard about the mania?
♪ If not then let me explain-ia
♪ Yes sir! It's the Transylvania Mania ♪ Whether you're in Ruritania
♪ Or in Albania
♪ Yes sir! It's the Transylvania Mania [Music] ♪ Have you heard of about the Mania
♪ If not then let me explain-ia
♪ Yes sir! It's the Transylvania Mania ♪ Rich and poor are all soft-shoe-ing it in hotels or huts! ♪ Even dogs are buzy doin' it
♪ Pedigreed and mutts! ♪ All the devils in Tazmania
♪ Shake their t
ails and go insane-ia
♪ Love it! ♪ It's the latest rage! ♪ Grab a steam ship or a plane-ia
♪ To the heart of old Romania
♪ Love it! ♪ Yeah you gotta love it!
♪ Do the Transylvania Mani-
Hey! [Stammers] Who's got a song? I do
Thank you ♪ No matter what you do on the stage
♪ Keep it light, keep it bright, keep it gay ♪ Whether it's murder, mayhem, or rage
♪ Don't complain it's a pain, keep it gay! ♪ People want laughter when they see a show
♪ The last thing they're after is a litany of woe [Toge
ther] ♪ A happy ending will pep up your play!
♪ Oedipus won't bomb
♪ If he ends up with mom -
Hi mom ♪ Keep it gay, gay, keep it gay [Piano vamps] And now it's -
- Hey James, can we just skip to the finale please? Thank you [Music] ♪ Together again til the next time
♪ We're mighty glad that you came ♪ Like Byron and Shelly
♪ Like Nichols and Delly ♪ Like ping pong and paddles
♪ Maybe next year blazing saddles ♪ Till the next time together again!
♪ Together forever again!
[Applause]
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