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The Mad Show (1966 Original Off-Broadway Cast) Description
Best known for its hilarious bossa nova send-up "The Boy From...," the musical revue The Mad Show ran off-Broadway for three years in the late 1960s. With music by Mary Rodgers (daughter of Richard, mother of Adam Guettel) and lyrics by, among others, Marshall Barer (Rodgers's collaborator on Once Upon a Mattress) and Steven Vinaver, the show musicalized material from the satirical MAD magazine. Some of the material is of the guess-you-had-to-be-there variety, but Linda Lavin's lyrical "Looking for Someone" has seen some life past the show, and "Well It Ain't" is instantly recognizable as a Bob Dylan spoof. The best song, however, remains "The Boy From..." (also sung by Lavin), which wittily spoofs the Getz-Gilberto classic "The Girl from Ipanema" courtesy of credited lyricist "Esteban Ria Nido," a rough Spanish-translated nom de plume for Stephen Sondheim. --David Horiuchi
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