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re: i'm always amazed it ran so long

Posted by: Chazwaza 06:34 pm EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: i'm always amazed it ran so long - NightMusic77 05:47 pm EST 01/16/14

Despite having never seen Titanic play out as a full show, I know from listening to the score and reading about it and getting the structure from all that... that RAGTIME is far and away a better musical, and I think it has a much better and vastly more memorable score.

And it's funny... I was 14 in 1997, so it seemed to me then like Steel Pier was more about "old people" but that was also my short hand for the post, I never thought it was about elderly people or anything. But I do remember the CD being disappointing (ps I wasn't a normal 14 year old, I had a vast knowledge of musicals by then). The show I was most taken by that year, and still am, is The Life. I think the score is just sensational.

But yes, I remember watching Rosie (for the performances) and seeing all these shows and hearing about them. I was already a fairly regular theater goer, but somehow I missed seeing all the big new shows of 1997... I never saw The Life, Titanic, or Steel Pier. But I did see the surrounding shows... Forum, Chicago, Rent, Ragtime, Parade, Cabaret, Annie Get Your Gun.


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re: i'm always amazed it ran so long

Posted by: larry13 06:46 pm EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: i'm always amazed it ran so long - Chazwaza 06:34 pm EST 01/16/14

Just when I thought there was nothing I could agree with you about, along comes your admiration for the score of THE LIFE. Fully agree.


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re: i'm always amazed it ran so long

Posted by: Chazwaza 07:18 pm EST 01/16/14
In reply to: re: i'm always amazed it ran so long - larry13 06:46 pm EST 01/16/14

Outside of Sondheim shows and Kander & Ebb shows, The Life might be the score I've sung most in my car. I think it's just awesome. There are some songs I admit are weak or repetitive, but by and large it is, as I said, sensational.


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I think THE LIFE was a good show- beautiful sets + lighting, too nm

Posted by: thtrgoer 01:17 am EST 01/17/14
In reply to: re: i'm always amazed it ran so long - Chazwaza 07:18 pm EST 01/16/14




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and those performances!

Posted by: Chazwaza 04:36 pm EST 01/17/14
In reply to: I think THE LIFE was a good show- beautiful sets + lighting, too nm - thtrgoer 01:17 am EST 01/17/14

I never got to see the show, but the performances on the CD are ridiculous.


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re: i'm always amazed it ran so long

Posted by: enoch10 12:41 am EST 01/17/14
In reply to: re: i'm always amazed it ran so long - Chazwaza 07:18 pm EST 01/16/14

on my list of shows that could clearly be better in revival than in the original production the life is very near the top.

but it is hard to dislodge my number 1 which is 9 to 5 - ridiculously underrated material destroyed by misguided direction, unforgivably heavy choreography and a lugubrious, soul destroying set. some day somebody's gonna revive 9 to 5 to hosannas and thrown roses.

i hope they follow that smashing success with the life


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