The
Mad Show
is an Off-Broadway musical revue based on Mad Magazine. The music is by Mary
Rodgers and Stephen Sondheim, the book by Larry Siegel and Stan Hart. The
show's various lyricists include Siegel, Marshall Barer, Steven Vinaver, and Stephen
Sondheim.
The revue opened on January 9, 1966, at the New Theatre, New York City, and ran for 871 performances. The original cast included Linda Lavin, Jo Anne Worley, Paul Sand, Richard Libertini, and MacIntyre Dixon. Sam Pottle conducted the music.
Joe Raposo, who later became music director for Sesame Street (a job held still later by Pottle), performed onstage as the Piano Player, who was shot during the course of each performance. He was also bludgeoned with a rubber chicken. The band's drummer was Danny Epstein, who later became Sesame Street's music coordinator from 1969 to 2009.
The lyrics of "The Boy From...", a parody of "The Girl from Ipanema", were semi-anonymously written by Stephen Sondheim. The official songwriting credit went to the linguistically minded pseudonym "Esteban Rio Nido", which translates from the German, via Spanish, to "Stephen River Nest". In the show's playbill, the lyrics were credited to "Nom de Plume".
"THE MAD SHOW" Program/Mobile/Tin Pin ORIGINAL
BROADWAY 1966 ALFRED E. NEWMAN
This group of ORIGINAL NON-REPRO (1966) “MAD” advertising memorabilia includes:
.SUPER RARE 2-Sided MOBILE….This ”MAD” Comic mobile is in Near Mint Condition and has never been assembled. It includes Characters and Motifs associated with MAD magazine…. can be assembled with string and straws. It was created with paper stock.
. Tin Fold-Over Button features the likeness Alfred E. Newman and measures about 1½ inches in diameter. Union Made in NYC. Lightly used and in good to fair age appropriate condition with only very minor surface scratches and mild bend as seen in pics provided.
. “THE MAD SHOW” Play (1966) SHOW CARD features the likeness Alfred E. Newman and was offered to promote the original “THE MAD SHOW” at the original venue “THE NEW THEATRE” East 54th Street in Manhattan 1966. It includes Cast and Advertisements. Please note this is in good to fair age appropriate condition with surface wear and discoloration and mild paper blemishes as seen in pics provided.