National Lampoon's Lemmings
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The poster for the 1973 show.
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| Music | Written and Arranged by Paul Jacobs and Christopher Guest |
| Productions | 1973 Off Broadway |
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| Released | 1973 | |||
| Genre | Comedy, Parody, Rock, folk rock | |||
| Label | Blue Thumb Records, MCA Records, Decca Broadway | |||
| Producer | Tony Hendra | |||
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National Lampoon: Lemmings, a spinoff of the humor magazine National Lampoon, was a 1973 stage show that helped launch the performing careers of John Belushi, Christopher Guest, and Chevy Chase. The show was co-written and co-directed by a number of people including Sean Kelly. The show opened at The Village Gate on January 25, 1973, and ran for 350 performances.
The first half of the show was sketch comedy; the second half was a mock rock festival, "Woodshuck: Three Days of Peace, Love and Death", a parody of ": Three Days of Peace and Music." "Woodshuck" featured spoofs of Woodstock performers, including Joe Cocker and Joan Baez, as well as parodies of John Denver, Bob Dylan and James Taylor, plus songs performed by fictional groups (e.g., the "Motown Manifestoes" singing Papa was a Running Dog Lackey of the Bourgeoisie).
The songs from the show were subsequently issued as a record album. A video of one of the original performances, National Lampoon: Lemmings: Dead in Concert 1973, was eventually made available several decades later.
The cast included:
Later cast replacements:
The writers included:
A cast recording of the show was released in 1973, with album cover art by Melinda Bordelon.
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