Broadway melody of COVID-19

Author(s)

Laurie O'Connor Stephans

Document Type

Blog

Publication Date

3-13-2020

Abstract

Unless you've been living in a cave somewhere, you know the only hope for mankind surviving the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, is for all of us to properly wash our hands. (Actually, that cave thing might work, too, but I digress.) A critical component of that hand washing protocol is that we scrub for a minimum of 20 seconds, which can be timed by singing two full renditions of "Happy Birthday." Whether you are a fellow Broadway aficionado or are simply sick of "Happy Birthday," I offer this brief libretto of Show Tunes for Sanitation … a rewrite of some classics to include the antibacterial flavor of the times. After all, if you're going do jazz hands, they'd better be clean.

Keywords

Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton

eCommons Citation

Stephans, Laurie O'Connor, "Broadway melody of COVID-19" (2020). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 937.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/937