Posted on 12/17/2012 9:31:42 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Well, if you think Andrew Lloyd Webber is better than Jerome Kern, Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Yip Harburg, Jerry Herman, Steven Sondheim, et al, you are entitled to your opinion! Me, I got other ideas.
Agree with you miss m.
Hollywood has once again ruined a perfectly good stage musical.
No, but I’ll look into it. Thanks.
Well it was either at Treblinka or Sobibor they had an orchestra. It was a very popular one that toured Europe. Since they were Jewish they were put in the camp to play music as the people were being led to their deaths. Think of them as the Lester Lanin of Europe. So I guess you could do a musical about that.
“Playing For Time”, a made-for-TV movie, starring Vanessa Redgrave, makes me cry whenever I watch it.
I could not, however, see it as a musical.
It was a powerful and moving film. The actors sang live on the sets as opposed to the usual recording/syncing later method. It is full of Christian imagery and themes. A great show. Take the spouse or if you dont have one then take the neighbor’s spouse.
Right - I forgot about that one.
They purposely set out to make a Broadway flop so they could embezzle the funding, so they think of a plot that would totally offend the audience. They choose Hitler and Nazi Germany as the theme of the show (not the camps per se, but the overall subject matter is the backdrop). Their mistake is in casting a flaming gay to portray Hitler, whose show-stopper number "Springtime For Hitler" is staged as a Busby-Berkeley musical number.
The audience mistakes the seriously-intended show for a farce (due to the "fabulous" portrayal of Hitler), and it becomes a smash hit.
-PJ
All I saw in the movie version of LM were The Red Queen and
Borat as the “innkeepers”===funny, from the beginning I thought it was a brothel-—it was just that sleazy-looking.
My wife corrected me.
"Miss Saigon" recreated the evacuation of Saigon, complete with a helicopter roof landing.
-PJ
-PJ
Just like “Swing Kids” great movie.
Might rent it if available.
All I saw in the movie version of LM were The Red Queen and
Borat as the “innkeepers”===funny, from the beginning I thought it was a brothel-—it was just that sleazy-looking.
My wife corrected me.
-PJ
Apples and oranges. Compare him to his contemporaries.
The whole point of my post was that musical comedy across the board has entered a decadent period - no one at this time is producing anything as good as the golden age of American musicals. Just a look at last year’s Tony Awards should have proved that.
Now, you can disagree with my opinion. But you will not change my mind and there is no use arguing about it.
Chill out I was just curious why you felt that way. It’s also a function of music education and how uncommon it is nowadays.
Got to see the play in my younger years loved it. The movie was stunning, I didn't think they could pull it off. The themes about redemption and the Revolution against the tyranny of the Crown and the elite compared to the poor (French Croney Capitalist anyone?), are somethings to ponder given our backdrop today.
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