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"If you say anything even remotely resembling a lyric from a musical, I will take that as an invitation to perform the entire musical for you. You're welcome."
This from the On Stage facebook blog, forwarded to me yesterday by my wife, who knows me waaay too well. Somehow, here at AA I've become the champion of Schoenberg, Stockhausen, and the anti-babes. But I'm really a Broadway musical-theatree.
Anyone else? What's your current or all time favorite musical? (Please don't say anything by Andrew Lloyd Weber after Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.)
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For me it's a toss up: Show Boat or Anything Goes.
But Bway musical theater, as it exists today, (yes, right here in NYC - the real Bway) is utterly detestable (imho). Everything is dangerously over-amplified. The "singers", such as they are (and I use the word very loosely), are totally wired for sound, mikes glued to their foreheads, teeth, tonsils, god only knows where else. And they'll put any big name on stage - Gwyneth Paltrow, Henry the Fonz Winkler - just pull a name out of a hat - no matter how musically challenged they might be - as long as the name has recognition amongst the masses.
The only musical theater here in NYC where you aren't assaulted by ear splitting amplified sound is the Vivian Beaumont Theater. I've seen Carousel, South Pacific and The King & I here and I was on each occasion very pleasantly surprised. Whatever amplification there is is done very discreetly - no visible mikes glued to peoples faces, etc, etc. And they generally use actual singing actors with real voices. It's almost like being at the opera. Of course a lot of people wouldn't care for that.
We learn from reading history that men learn nothing from reading history. Hegel
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Imagine the applications: Please comment on this topic, but: nothing about (1) babes; (2) serialism; or (3) Sunset Boulevard.
I think I've just revolutionized internet discussion forums.
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I guess I used up my creative energy writing those lyrics to Beethoven's 1st.
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She's enough of a musical theatree for both of us.
Guess what her favorite musical is?
I like MANY jazz interpretations of many MT tunes
and that's about the extent of my tolerance for musicals.
This was rock solid BEFORE I even met my wife and heard
HER interpretations.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
I sort of grew up with it, so I'm a junkie as well. My dad was the orchestra contractor for a summer stock company, and I went to everything. My public "debut" was in The Music Man, as a member of the onstage band, which was made up of kids of people in the orchestra. That means that the first conductor that I played for was Van Johnson. Though he's largely forgotten now, he was still a big star in the mid 60's and packed a 3,000 seat hall for 8 shows (and was great in the role). I hadn't really started playing yet, so my dad had to teach me enough to stumble through the Minuet in G. I played it on E flat clarinet, which was the only spare horn that my dad had. I joke that I'm the only clarinet player I know who started out on a half-size clarinet. It was quite an experience. I did it again a few years later with Gig Young, who was also very good.
I'm sort of emotionally attached to The Music Man, but if I had to pick one, it might be Man of La Mancha. First saw it with Giorgio Tozzi, who was terrific in the role.
Since we're in audiophile land, I will say that I got the Capitol 2 track tape of the original Broadway cast recording of Music Man a while ago, and it is fantastic. The sound is unbelievable, and the performances all seem "fresher" than the much more common movie soundtrack. Also, Barbara Cook's Marian the Librarian is quite a bit edgier than Shirley Jones', which is interesting.
my two grant writing choices are Wicked and Chess - I started this back when I was in college and did Advanced Calculus homework regularly with Evita in the background
I've been trying to work Miss Saigon into the rotation, thus far without success.
But it's also fair to say that the only reason I am willing to admit to it here is the anonymity provided by posting using a moniker. =:-0
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Sweeney Todd
A Little Night Music
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