“Coffee Fest will host a special presentation of “A Café Performance of Songs and Scenes from Coffee The Musical” at Coffee Fest New York, March 9-11. With its goal set firmly on landing on Broadway in the 2012-2013 season, the cast of Coffee The Musical will offer a special preview of the musical: an on-site cast reading and an intimate performance of the upcoming songs.”

We first covered “Coffee: The Musical” back in March, after it was featured in the NYT Diner’s Journal, under the headline “Beans Over Broadway” (glegh). Back then we said “the whole thing unintentionally smacks of ‘Waiting For Guffman,’” but in a Coffee Fest setting, it might be more like “Best In Show.” Suffice it to say, we can’t wait.

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A press release (the producer) Mr. Galinsky circulated this week promises that the show will include “an original musical soundtrack, dancing, singing, topical coffee talk, love stories, and the preparation and enjoyment of coffee.” The signature, song, a Chicago-like number titled “Hot Black Stuff,” begins:

I want it hot
I want it black
I want it strong.
I need it early in the morning,
I like it all day long.

Sounds like fun, but to the show’s lyricist we must humbly declare: Stephen Sondheim, you ain’t. Go watch this Kickstarter video / plea for public funding - to us, the whole thing unintentionally smacks of ”Waiting For Guffman”. In fact, we here at Sprudge.com are pretty sure we can do it better. Here’s some excerpted lyrics from the “Barista’s Lament”, which opens the second act of Sprudge’s competing coffee musical:

Gajah Aceh, I’ve been here all day

No one can tell if I’m straight or I’m gay

I’m pulling the shots, I’m tamping with power

Get out of my shop, you’ve been camping for hours!

We, too, are currently accepting your money for our project.

NYT Diner’s Journal: Beans Over Broadway

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