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Musicals??
Feb 17, 2016 23:56:30 GMT -5
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Post by lorelai on Feb 17, 2016 23:56:30 GMT -5
I agree with you both.
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Feb 18, 2016 0:25:14 GMT -5
Menken sometimes can do wrong imo, but luckily he refrained when working on the stage adaptation of Aladdin.
I still stand by Disney Theatrical's choice to get Stiles and Drewe to add their effort to the Shermans' original score for Mary Poppins. (Actually I think it was mostly Mackintosh's idea, but Schumacher and his mob went with it.) It had rather bizarre results some of the time, but I actually think it's their best work. It shows them growing and improving from Honk, a show I'm also very fond of.
On the subject of Menken, LSOH is apparently coming to Melbourne soon yay. If I can afford it, I'll probably go.
Shoutout to Sophie for saying ITH and Comet for saying Rocky Horror.
BTW, everyone who has posted in here since my previous post wins a prize for not saying something like 'plot?' as soon as Cats was mentioned.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on Feb 18, 2016 6:26:52 GMT -5
I'm in a Randy Newman phase. I mostly listen to his songs for Pixar, but I really like Short People and Political Science from his pre-Pixar albums (also, his cover of Peter Gabriel's Big Time), and Sail Away is just wonderful. If he did the music for The Princess and the Frog, there's all the more reason for me to get around to watching it. Menken sometimes can do wrong imo, but luckily he refrained when working on the stage adaptation of Aladdin. Pun intended? |
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Feb 18, 2016 6:54:29 GMT -5
Let's say it was.
Newman's Pixar work is terrific, yes.
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Post by Anka on Feb 18, 2016 11:00:07 GMT -5
I like musicals but I think I prefer the less known newer Eurpean ones over the classic broadway things.
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Post by Eponine on Feb 18, 2016 18:12:31 GMT -5
Oh really? I will have to add that to my mental notes. :)
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Post by lorelai on Feb 19, 2016 0:12:42 GMT -5
Any The Secret Garden fans? A concert version is being done in New York on Monday with some lovely voices and I'm hoping it gets recorded.
Also, yay to Melbourne getting Shop of Horrors--I took friends to a fantastic local production of that for my twelf birthday; the director gave us a backstage tour and let me get "eaten" by the plant.
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Feb 19, 2016 0:58:49 GMT -5
I worked on a production of The Secret Garden a few years ago. I liked the show ok, and some of the score was pretty good, but thought it ran too long, didn't capture the depth of the movie or book, and clearly had nfi what it was doing with the doctor's character. (Though a friend of mine played the role and he seemed to quite enjoy telling people he got to be the villain. At least someone was happy.)
That sounds like an ideal birthday.
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Post by BSam on Feb 19, 2016 2:28:04 GMT -5
i love the songs from assassins and les mis
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Post by Eponine on Feb 19, 2016 8:06:55 GMT -5
i like glee. Yes, thank you!! Glee is my favorite show :D |
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Musicals??
Feb 19, 2016 13:41:51 GMT -5
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Post by ghostie on Feb 19, 2016 13:41:51 GMT -5
I saw the secret garden once at my brother's school - i can't remember it too well but I love the music. I've sung how could I ever know for auditions before; love that song
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Post by lorelai on Feb 19, 2016 16:25:38 GMT -5
HCIEK is indeed a great song. I've sung it for competitions and plan to audition with it.
Lemona, you might also appreciate that the party favor for that birthday was Venus Flytraps--a friend got hers to live quite a long time on hamburger.
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Post by Charlie on Feb 20, 2016 12:51:05 GMT -5
Sweet fantheory: netflixasoue will be musical
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Post by s on Feb 20, 2016 20:06:34 GMT -5
tbh i call dibs on writing the asoue musical (opera?) (youth opera?) but um
i have a lot of feelings about anything by sondheim
i need to expand my knowledge/tastes beyond him though? i don't really know many other shows
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Post by lorelai on Feb 21, 2016 1:49:28 GMT -5
If you like Sondheim, I'd try any of Andrew Lloyd Webber's work, but maybe start with Evita or Sunset Boulevard--listen closely and you'll catch the two of them giving musical nods to each other--any of Jason Robert Brown's stuff (he's a composer and lyric writer too), and the musicals Ragtime, Miss Saigan, and Chess (it went through many revisions, so look for Chess in Concert on youTube for the most up-to-date one).
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