Ah-mah-zing

Today (YES two blogs in a row?!?!) I’m giving love to the deconstructions of Seth Rudetsky (he’s doing a deconstruction a day in May!). Seth is a… well, he’s played piano in the pits of musicals, he’s done acting, he hosts a program on Sirius Satellite Radio, he’s a music director, he’s an author, etc. etc. Basically, when it comes to Broadway, Seth has been involved in whatever he can get his hands on. He has his full bio at his website.

On his YouTube channel, he posts deconstructions — basically, he plays some of his favorite bits of songs (mostly Broadway but a little pop, classical, etc. too — he recently deconstructed Kelly Clarkson and Michael Jackson in the midst of all his Broadway deconstructions) and explains, as only Seth Rudetsky can with lots of arm-waving and lip syncing, why he’s obsessed with them. I find him to be a little bit of the TV Tropes of music, in that after you watch a ton of Seth’s deconstructions you start to notice choices singers make in their interpretations of songs that you perhaps never consciously honed in on before.

I’m not a fan of traditional showtunes as much as Seth is but I still enjoy watching all his deconstructions. He is an example of someone who has such personality that they can talk about anything and you’ll be entertained. His channel is Zonkzink but I’m going to embed one of my favorite deconstructions of his from an event: Barbra Steisand and Bea Arthur. I saw this right before I saw my high school do Funny Girl and throughout Cornet Man and Don’t Rain On My Parade I almost had to hold back laughter remembering this video (definitely no Broadway knowledge required to see how hilarious this is).

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