National Lampoon's Class of '86
National Lampoon's Class of '86 was a musical comedy stage show that played at the Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1986. It spun off from National Lampoon magazine. A recording of the show was broadcast on Showtime’s Comedy Spotlight on December 6, 1986, and later released on VHS. The two-hour show was made of sketches that poked fun at 1980s culture.
The show’s framing story follows two hippies, Galahad and Dewdrop, who took LSD in 1969, fell asleep, and woke up in 1986. The sketches lampoon yuppie culture, health fads, the Reagan era, airplane hijackings, and psychotherapy. The writers were Andy Simmons and Dave Hanson. Notable sketches include The Cabinet Meeting and Tasty Fresh, and songs include Please Don't Drop The Bomb On My Boyfriend and Yuppie Love, with music by Richard Levinson. Jerry Adler directed the piece. The cast featured Rodger Bumpass, Veanne Cox, Annie Golden, Tommy Koenig, Brian O'Connor, and John Michael Higgins.
Some material was left out of the Showtime broadcast and the VHS release, such as Solid God, a spoof of Solid Gold and The 700 Club with Golden as Madonna. The onstage band consisted of Michael Sansonia (keyboards and musical director), Paul Guzzone (bass), Robert Bond (drums), and Stu Ziff (guitar). Sansonia also wrote several songs for the show, including A President's Dream.
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