Parodoxical

PARODOXICAL 2025

PARODOXICAL 2025 IS NOW ON YOUTUBE.

This is a staged reading, performed on August 3, 2025, at the Electric Lodge in Venice, CA.

The YouTube link to the full show is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhL0TfqUJaE&t=330s.

The YouTube link to the 20-minute highlight video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGKu-17sex0.

Performed by Jimm Juback, Nomi Roth, Christine Tigner, Marilyn Miller, and Alan Stillson. You can follow the parody lyrics displayed on the screen at the back of the stage.

Parodoxical 2025 is a sequel to Parodoxical 2024. It takes place at the second meeting of the Woke Mélange, a group seeking to create a virtual time capsule to be opened 50 years later. It is a political satire with live music. Cast members perform parodies, combined with narration, to recall the successes of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and apply the same fervor to the paradoxical events of 2023 and 2024, where a minority of Americans continues the restriction of civil rights to certain groups of Americans.

Parody lyrics by Alan Stillson © 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025

Parodoxical 2024, the musical theater version and Parodoxical, the narrated concert version, are now available for licensing!

Both versions of Parodoxical offer a contemporary, edgy political satire with powerful, biting progressive messaging, to inspire your audience.

PARODIES and libretti analyze the PARADOX of enabling a minority of Americans to revoke the right to choose from a majority of Americans and threaten the revocation of other civil rights.

Parodoxical 2024 is written by Alan Stillson astillson13@gmail.com and licensed by Stillsonworks.

A live performance of Parodoxical 2024 was videotaped at MKM Culture Arts in No. Hollywood, CA on March 30, 2024.

YOUTUBE VIDEO LINKS ARE:

CLIPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcxYf-66GFY

FULL SHOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra3hZyLKmfU

FULL SHOW + Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpFCSCWZYtQ

Live performances of the narrated concert version of Parodoxical were videotaped at Santa Monica Playhouse in Santa Monica, CA on December 5, 2022, and May 18, 2023.

ACT ONE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NHaGcO1Tbs

ACT TWO: https://youtu.be/j3IbpgQmqeQ

Sample lyrics from two of the parodies:

GIVE US THAT FREEDOM FROM RELIGION
Based on Old Time Religion – traditional

WHEN RELIGION LEADS TO SLAVERY AND OTHER THINGS UNSAVORY,

SPEAK UP WITH ALL OUR BRAVERY AND MAKE SURE WE STAY FREE.

DO NOT LET THE FAR-RIGHT CHEAT US WITH THE WAY THEY VIEW A FETUS.

IT’S THE WAY THEY TRY TO BEAT US INTO MASS PASSIVITY.

YOU’RE NEVER TO SAY GAY IN MY STATE
Based on It's Not for Me to Say by Al Stillman and Robert Allen

YOU\’RE NEVER TO SAY WOKE IN MY STATE.

THAT WORD JUST MAKES ME CHOKE AND STINGS MY EAR.

FOR WE IN THE SUNSHINE STATE ADORE OUR PAST

AND WE REGRET THAT OUR JIM CROW LAWS DID NOT LAST.

Please contact Alan Stillson at Stillsonworks for further information and if you have any questions. The e-mail address is astillson13@gmail.com and the landline is 818-884-4284.

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