Among the many earworms that have wormed their way into my ears in the past few years is a song by the group Walk the Moon called "Shut up and Dance With Me." If you've never heard it — and it was hard not to for a while — it went like this.
I recently mentioned it to a friend and she said, "Did you see what they did with it at The Gypsy of the Year Awards? That's an annual show put on each year for fund-raising purposes by the worthy cause, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Each year for two performances, members of the Broadway community — mostly folks performing in current shows — put on sketches and skits and song parodies and…well, the shows I've seen have been a lot of fun.
I hadn't seen what they did one year with the Walk the Moon number but I found it. It was the opening to the 2015 Gypsy of the Year Awards show and it went something like this…