Mamma Mayor!
Mayor Bloomberg took the stage at the annual Inner Circle Saturday night and - after aborting an attempt to be Spider-Man - donned bell bottoms and platform shoes and cavorted with the cast of "Mamma Mia."
Bloomberg first descended from the rafters with a cape as if he was Peter Parker but - just like the troubled big-budget musical - had to stop in mid-air due to technical difficulties.
Hizzoner then switched musicals and returned to the disco-fied days of the 1970s.
"Pay that fee, watch the screen, winning prizes, all in Mike's Machine," the cast sang to the tune of ABBA's "Dancing Queen" as they told the fictitious backstory of Bloomberg's media empire.
Bloomberg repeatedly poked fun at his administration's struggles during his controversial third term - and particularly the December blizzard.
"You'll have eight great years," a cast member told Bloomberg during a flashback to 2001.
"What if I get a third term?," Bloomberg responded.
"Like I said ...," the cast member said.
He donned the pseudo-Spider-man costume again at the end and exited into the rafters saying the press has no right to know where he goes on weekends.
Each year the Inner Circle, a group of current and former City Hall reporters, put on skits roasting the politicians they cover.
Only the mayor is allowed a rebuttal.
The theme last night was "Meet the Focker-Uppers," a nod to the Ben Stiller movie and a savage send-up of the debacles in the early days of Bloomberg's third term.
The Christmas blizzard, the appointment of controversial Schools Chancellor Cathie Black and Bloomberg's politically-incorrect joke about drunk Irish "people hanging out windows" were all targets of ridicule.
Rex Ryan's foot fetish was also - somehow - connected to the controversy surrounding the Ground Zero mosque.
Last year, the normally buttoned-up Bloomberg donned tinted shades, a flower-powered shirt, hair extensions and a headband as he grooved with the cast of "Hair."
Channeling the spirit of the '60s, Hizzoner - an Aquarius, he noted - partied with Snooki and The Situation from "The Jersey Shore" and poked fun the controversial manner in which he obtained a third term.
In the past, Bloomberg utilized the casts "Mary Poppins," Spamalot," and "The Little Mermaid," for the charity fund-raiser held annually at the New York Hilton.
The gold-standard, however, for talked-about performances remains Rudy Giuliani who one year wore tights and danced with the cast of "Chicago" and another time dressed in drag and warbled "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" as Marilyn Monroe.
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