An old parody

So, several years ago I was in a production of the play Twelve Angry Jurors, which is better known as Twelve Angry Men when it has an all-male cast. It was the "Small Fall" play at Penn—a short play produced at the beginning of the school year by the Theater Arts Council in order to get freshmen interested in Penn theater.

The set included a long narrow table that the jurors were all sitting around, and at one point during tech week, one member of the cast said that sitting at that table made her want to start singing "La Vie Boheme" from Rent.

And I got to thinking... "twelve angry men" sounds a lot like "la vie boheme"... so I went home and wrote a parody.

I haven't posted it before now because I figured that, in order to understand the references in the lyrics, you have to be pretty closely familiar with the script of Twelve Angry Men. But I showed the parody to kepod the other day, and despite not having seen Twelve Angry Men (or Rent) she seemed to get a kick out of it. So in case anyone else is interested, here it is—I only parodied the first three verses, not the introduction or bridges, but I'm pretty proud of how well I managed to match the structure of the original song's complicated rhyme scheme, assonances, and puns.

( 12 angry men! 12 angry men! )