Item 1: Judy Garland, performing “Get Happy” in a scene taken from the end of the 1950 musical, Summer Stock.

Item 2: Rufus Wainwright, performing “Get Happy” in an identical outfit, with identical dance moves, from Glastonbury 2007, apropos of this Slant review of the concert album that resulted from Wainwright’s live remake of Garland’s legendary concert at Carnegie Hall.

Choice pullquote: “Sure, fans might cackle about the delicious irony of famed (and to be fair, recovered) Fire Island disaster and crack-pipe-alley diarist Rufus doing his best impression of music’s most fabulous pill-popper. But the reverence and respect he displays here is no joke, even if said reverence sometimes verges on camp, such as in the banter that follows ‘Almost Like Being in Love,’ where he admits, ‘I’m going to speak now, because on the album Judy speaks here. When I was a kid, I wanted to be Dorothy.’ While Wainwright provocatively toes the line between celebration and mockery, he never crosses it.”

Discuss.

Previously in Side by Side Simulations: Darby Crash