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Started by karen hettinger
Thu, 27 Dec 1984 01:48
Musicals, specifically Rogers & Hammerstein
Author: karen hettinger
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1984 01:48
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 1984 01:48
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This weekend I had the opportunity to watch for the first time since
childhood the movie version of R & H Sound of Music. Sure, it was
edited for television (by Joe the Butcher down the street from the
studio), but I enjoyed it even more than I had as a child. I hummed
the overature and sang along with the songs as if I'd heard them last
week.
What I'd like to discuss is what makes the R & H formula work? I know
in the back of my brain that I have been exposed to several of their
works in the past, but I'm having trouble recalling, and some I'm
afraid I may've mixed up with other playwrights/composers. Does
anyone have a list? Which is your favorite, and why? Have you
seen different productions of the same play? Working on Cinderella
this fall was fun, but SoM is my all time favorite. Unlike many
productions, I like *all* the musical numbers, and with an adult's
insight into the situation of Nazi-occupied Austria, I find the
story more than merely entertaining.
Write, I love a full mbox.
--
kitten~
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Re: Musicals, specifically Rogers & Hammerstein
Author: Mark Adolph
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1985 18:38
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1985 18:38
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*** YOUR MESSAGE *** > What I'd like to discuss is what makes the R & H formula work? I know > in the back of my brain that I have been exposed to several of their > works in the past, but I'm having trouble recalling, and some I'm > afraid I may've mixed up with other playwrights/composers. Does > anyone have a list? Which is your favorite, and why? Have you > seen different productions of the same play? Working on Cinderella > this fall was fun, but SoM is my all time favorite. Unlike many > productions, I like *all* the musical numbers, and with an adult's > insight into the situation of Nazi-occupied Austria, I find the > story more than merely entertaining. A related question is whether The Sound of Music, if released today, would be as popular, or is it so listenable/watchable because the music is SO INCREDIBLY familiar. I mean, although I really like "16 Going On 17", it really is quite a corny song when you get right down to it. By the way, I saw a production of this several years ago in a dinner theater in the round. Very interesting the way they used such minimal set pieces, none of which was more than a few feet tall so that no view would be blocked. I think it worked quite well. -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph "We'll cross out that bridge when we come back to it later"
Re: Musicals, specifically Rogers & Hammerstein
Author: Ron Natalie <ron>
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1985 08:21
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1985 08:21
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> I mean, although I really like "16 Going On 17", it really is quite > a corny song when you get right down to it. > I'm as corny as Kansas in August...(to quote another R&H musical)
Re: Musicals, specifically Rogers & Hammerstein
Author: Steve Kaufman
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1985 17:38
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1985 17:38
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> > I'm having trouble recalling, and some I'm > > afraid I may've mixed up with other playwrights/composers. Does > > anyone have a list? I imagine there must be at least one library in this country where the card catalog can help you put together such a list.
Re: Musicals, specifically Rogers & Hammerstein
Author: Chuqui Q. Koala
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 1985 20:15
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 1985 20:15
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>A related question is whether The Sound of Music, if released today, would be
>as popular, or is it so listenable/watchable because the music is SO INCREDIBLY
>familiar.
Now? Probably not, but theater goes in cycles. There was a time when a Cats
or a Sweeney Todd or an Evita would have died at the gate, and a Chorus
Line would have languished off broadway somewhere as well. One of these
days someone will start doing serious light musicals again and they will
be back. For a while, of course.
--
From the ministry of silly talks: Chuq Von Rospach
{allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA
Deadbone erotica is the prickly panic of forgotten milleniums, it is the moldy
billion year madness that creeps deep along the spinal behind of my mind.
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