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Artist Credits

Ivy Austin, Mary Brienza, David Buskin, Marion Cowings, Kathryn Markey, Leenya Rideout

with special guest
James Naughton


Staged and Hosted by Isaiah Sheffer
Co-Written by Martin Sage
Musical Direction by Lanny Meyers
Choreography by Regina Larkin
Stage Managed by Brittani Key
Cartoons by Mort Gerberg

 

 

Filed Under satire, politics, variety show, songs, skits, humor
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Thalia Follies: America Reborn? main image TheatreFebruary 20, 2009

Thalia Follies: America Reborn?

The Performance

One month after the inauguration of Barack Obama, the Follies takes a look at our new Administration and what's been happening in the first thirty days. 


Performance playlist:

ACT I
"Cut Back!" Lennon/McCartney/Sheffer
First National Rotten Assets Bank - Isaiah Sheffer
"Guantanamospa" Pete Seeger/Isaiah Sheffer
We Are a Nation of ... - Sharon Lerner/Emily Kingsley
"It's Impossible" Manzanero/Brienza
Didn't Anybody Vet This Man? - David Buskin
"The Taliban's Back" Feldman/Goldstein/Gottehrer/Buskin
Upon Barack - Shakespeare/Sheffer
"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" Jerome Kern/Isaiah Sheffer
"Pillow Talk" Rodgers & Hart/ Isaiah Sheffer
The White House Puppy Speaks - Sheffer/Markey
"Miserias Economicas" Villa-Lobos/Sheffer
Rahm 'n Abba - Isaiah Sheffer
"Advice To Ruth Madoff " words and music, Mary Brienza
Sidwell Friends Parents Meeting - Kathryn Markey
"The Bail-Out Boogie" David Buskin

ACT II
"From My Cold Dead Hands" The Chalks
"Stress" words and music, James Infantini
Press Queries - Isaiah Sheffer
"American Dream" words and music, Leenya Rideout
The Four Month Election - David Buskin
"Where Has All The Money Gone?" Seeger/Sheffer/Markey
Derivatives Seduction - Isaiah Sheffer
"Ponzi Tarantella" words and music, Ivy Austin
"Start All Over Again" Dorothy Fields/Jerome Kern/Sheffer

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