Low-Rent Musical Bioplay
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Low-Rent Musical Bioplay (LRMB) a phrase originally used in the New Times Broward-Palm Beach to describe theatrical productions depicting the lives of popular entertainers through music and exposition. As originally used by the paper's critic, it was a prejorative term, denoting cynicism and a lack of imagination on the part of such productions' producers.[1]
[edit] Examples of LRMBs
- Backwards In High Heels (about Ginger Rogers)
- The Boy From Brooklyn (about Danny Kaye)
- A Marvelous Party (about Noel Coward)
- Side By Side By Sondheim (about Stephen Sondheim)
- Tomfoolery (about Tom Lehrer)
