YouTube Capping: the Muny presents "Aladdin"

So the Muny in St. Louis is doing a stage production of Disney's Aladdin. Which is all very well and good, but there are a few things that cause my eyebrow to raise. So here's my YouTube captioning of the opening night highlights! Enjoy!

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NO LEG ROOM OVERPRICED DRINKS PEOPLE WHO TEXT THROUGHOUT THE SHOW

Titles by Mrs. Hanson's seventh grade art class.

It's a precision yoga class!

Early Muslim architects did wonder with cardboard...

What sort of person wastes one of his three wishes on a kickline?

Did...did Genie just come on to him?

Still, I gotta wonder how they're going to do the turning-into-celebrity-caricatures trick...

o/...We don't have the budget for this scene...o/

o/...We'll have to just pretend there's neat stuff out there...o/

o/...And try not to look real stupid on this rug...o/

Maybe Genie wasn't imprisoned in the lamp, maybe he was just sitting tight until he reached a time period when his lifestyle would be acceptable.

Man, when your cast is snarking on the lyrics in the middle of the show...

o/...Hey hey, we're the Monkees!...o/

Okay, the subtext is becoming less and less sub by the moment...

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Can I use one of my wishes to give severe intestinal distress to whoever thought using "BFFs" in a lyric was acceptable?

Ah yes, the magic...golf cart of the Arabian sorcerers!

With Paul Lynde as the Genie

Okay everyone, big wordless chorus finish!

That's it, don't worry about the pitch, the percussion will make it sound impressive!

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YouTube Capping: The First Man You Remember

It's time for another YouTube Capping video! Today's subject is the poofy-haired Michael Ball singing Generic Andrew Lloyd Webber Ballad #623, aka "The First Man You Remember!"

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So...my dad?

Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again...

It's such a lovely day-for-night out...

Wait...Rick Astley? He did more than one video?

"Hey, give me my scarf back! I'm freezing!"

Can the moon actually go nova?

Meanwhile, at a funeral in 1985...

Gilda Radner!

Cut, cut! Could the drunken mime clear the set?

o/...to do you up the backdoor...o/

Seriously, do they just not notice the Dread Pirate Roberts doing the Jerk back there?

"Hey, hey, I paid the dime for this dance!"

Everybody VOGUE!

She's like a less emotive Sarah Brightman...

"I also want to go to a party that doesn't have its own modern dance troupe."

"Okay." *kicks her legs out from under her*

"Even when I'm craving a Frosty at eleven at night?"
"Let's not get too hasty."

So, you want him to give you arrhythmia?

All right, Bebe Neuwirth, I'm cutting you off and calling a cab...

This must be what Bob Fosse's nightmares looked like.

"Wow, that was one fuckin' weird party!"

o/...Drifting, falling, floating weightless...o/

"Which explains the huge tsunami!"

She's pigeon-elbowed!

"Would you settle for being the first one I drunk dial?"

The mall security is going to be pissed when they see these two screwing around in the fountain...

"How romantic, it feels like we're walking on a plastic table barely underneath the water!"

Amy Yasbeck and Dustin Hoffman: A Love Story

Isn't the first man you remember usually the loser you're thankful you broke up with?

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You Tube Captioning: Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

Here's the first of my YouTube Captioning blog posts! Children of the 90s may remember the Backstreet Boys, where were one of roughly sixty million boy bands floating around the pop charts at the time. Here's my take on their video "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" in which the blandly pretty boys go all Thriller on several classic movie monsters (three of whom inspired musicals to varying degrees of success). Don't forget to check out the YouTube Captioning Blog, and be sure to come back next Monday for an all-new Musical Hell Review!

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Oh great, another live action Scooby-Doo movie.

"I turned up the radio to mask the rattling noise and everything!"

Quit trying to act! You're all embarrassing yourselves!

He is this close to being a minstrel show.

"Right after my Steppin' Fetchit routine!"

Eh, could be worse. Could be a Motel 6.

Dracula's brides come in, then decide they're not that hungry.

"What the....AJ?"

Meanwhile, at Hogwarts...

He's become Grizabella from Cats!

"Damn, puberty hit fast!"

Kristen Stewart?

Oh my mistake, this woman has pigment.

And now it's a Criss Angel routine...

And he's instantly got Gerard Butler beat.

Wes Craven's Ratatouille

"Have you tried the live rats? They're marvelous!"

I don't know the air-speed velocity of an overladen swallow, if that's what you want.

Pimp Daddy Lon Chaney Jr.

Did...did you just ask your fanbase of twelve-year-old girls "Am I sexual?"

o/...For I'll live inside you forever...o/

Damn, white monsters can't dance.

This is a fan trailer for Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, right?

Um, no. No, it's not all right.

"Ow, my back!"

"Yo, yo, where my angels of music at?"

What if I don't care enough to wave my hands?

The thing from The Abyss gets a cameo!

Is she entranced, or bored?

Was there much rejoicing?
"Yeah."

"Wheee!"

So Mr. Hyde was actually some kind of fish creature?

If you rock your body wrong, see a chiropractor.

Somewhere a wrap fetishist is getting off on those girls.

Is the backing track losing battery power?

It's a prom attended entirely by Harlequin Romance cover models!

Imhotep's in da house!

Is that a threat?

Sweating bats is one of the lesser-known vampire powers.

So, this video is basically a cross between "Thriller," the Universal Monsters, and Teen Beat.

Still, it was nice of Tim Burton to let them shoot in his foyer.

Do the Awkward Geek!

"Now, on the floor for leg lifts! And one, and two..."

"Fear my open shirt!"

"No, if I hit puberty my career will be over!"

"I dreamed that Michael Jackson sued us..."

"I had a terrible dream too! We were in a framing scene for a video, and they forced us to recite lines!"

"We are confessing the homoerotic ones, right?"

"I'm your bus driver now!"

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Yet More Random Crap

Lea Michele, Bernadette Peters and Megan Hilty did a promotional blurb for ET regarding her new movie Dorothy of Oz, which comes out....sometime in the next year, I guess? The film looks kind of meh, but it's amusing to watch Michele try to describe the experience of “working” with Peters and Hilty when none of them were, you know, actually in a studio together at any time.

Earlier this week, I posted the first half of my list of favorite musicals. (I'm not posting a link because, you know, you can just scroll to the next post down.) Among those discussed was the American Playhouse version of Into the Woods, which I saw during my formative musical geek years. So I was surprised to discover Danielle Ferland, who performed the role of Little Red Riding Hood in that production, is now starring in a regional version of Into the Woods...as the Baker's wife. God, now I feel old.

And now Glee and Rock of Ages need to step down, because I have found the ultimate rendition of “Don't Stop Believin'.” (Fun game: watch this once to see how many movies you recognize, then hit the CC button for a list of the sources.)



And speaking of fun stuff on YouTube, in addition to posting my rambling opinions here I also contribute to the YouTube Captioning blog, which produces gag subs of various YouTube postings that really, really deserve them. I'll be cross-posting some relevant videos here in the future, to provide more material for my loyal readers (both of you). In the meantime, here's blog owner SpaceToast's very funny captioning of some J-Pop weirdness. Enjoy!