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Post by crabtree on Oct 14, 2016 20:16:44 GMT
Can anyone help me with this, anyone who saw this short lived show by Kander and Ebb. I listen to this regularly and only have a loose grasp of what is happening, but just from the CD it moves me so much. It is melancholy and moving and strange and utterly haunting, full of cracked voices. Did the show work? It had such a tragic fate but the disturbingly beautiful score lives on.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Oct 14, 2016 20:44:56 GMT
This kind of show could never be successful on Broadway, but if we're looking for something to blame it's John Doyle's asinine direction. Totally unable to build the tension this show requires. Everything was vague and unprecise.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 15, 2016 7:59:00 GMT
I would love this to come to London
When it was in Washington it was much longer and in two acts - perhaps it worked better then? John Doyle cut a lot out of Sondheim''s Road Show to make it 'work'. Like Visit, perhaps too much - give it some depth and resisntate the songs Brothers, little house for mamma and make it through the night ...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 9:38:31 GMT
Love this musical. It would be the perfect vehicle for Judi Dench if La Rivera couldn't do it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 10:48:38 GMT
I studied the play for Alevels. It kickstarted my lifelong love of eunuchs
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Post by crabtree on Oct 15, 2016 11:48:52 GMT
I must read up on the actual plot, but the voices of Roger Rees and Chita Rivera are so haunting, every croak full of emotion and sadness, and a shared history. Kander and Ebb really have written some amazing musicals- sadly we have not had them all over here. I'd love to see a full scale Curtains here, and Spiderwoman again. I love the music of steel Pier but the story was a bit skewed. And Scottsboro Boys is simply a masterpiece. I love their ragtime/cakewalk music.
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