I ran through a similar train of thought (including re: abolition of the draft as raised in your replies) earlier today while listening to “Alice’s Restaurant” (which for me is meta-nostalgia for 1990s Z93 rather than actual nostalgia for an era in which I wasn’t alive) while doing dishes

At least two (Rickey and Tony Fernandez) aren’t even alive!

If you’ll accept top-tier Off Broadway musicals that never got the transfer from MTC that it clearly wanted, from Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party: youtu.be/9aA3OYt81AM?...

“The Old Red Hills of Home,” Parade (85 performances in 1998-99)

It is whip-smart, and (at least from my not-yet-parenting-a-teen POV) seems to have one of the more authentic depictions of how “the kids” actually are these days (plus, as a bonus, it’s set in Austin)

Someone is plainly enjoying having a new sports team for which to cheer on a principled basis

FWIW, Rob Corddry (and/or his Daily Show writers/producers) originated the “facts” line in 2004; Colbert riffed on it as “reality” in 2006 at WHCD

Bobby’s monologue in “A Chorus Line” arguably “explicitly references” *a* “school in NYC's P.S. system” without specifying exactly *which* school (“I went to P.S. Shit…”). Not a song, but it is from a musical

You forgot Community S1’s Professor Whitman!

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