Now at The Bell House, *Heated Rivalry: The Unauthorized Musical Parody* reframes a well-known romance premise through a Rock/Pop score, using parody to test what fandom, intimacy, and competition look like onstage in New York. The evening sits in the venue’s rotating live-program context, alongside names associated with the room’s calendar, including Irish Culture Night, Richard Perez: For One Night (with a Band) Okay, Kaiju Big Battel, John Hodgman, and Katie Boyle. No documented NYC-premiere history is established in public record. Its sharpest move is treating genre clichés as documentary evidence of how people narrate desire.