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Big Fish-- OBC

Posted by:	GavinL 05:30 pm EDT 03/16/14

So, I finally got around to listening to this. It's quite charming and funny... I enjoy the songs, the orchestrations. I also enjoyed The Addams Family ... I'm one of the few, I suppose. I don't understand the complaining about Lippa that his scores are dull or weak... so my question is: are they considered weak because they add nothing that isn't already in the books of the shows, respectively? I mean, are the songs unnecessary additions to the story? Was that the problem? I know, I know... "what's the use of wond'rin?" :)

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re: Big Fish-- OBC

Posted by:	BroadwayLouBlaze 01:50 am EDT 03/17/14
In reply to:	Big Fish-- OBC - GavinL 05:30 pm EDT 03/16/14

I have the cast album too. I really am enjoying it. I saw the show twice. It really was not very good and none the songs except the opening made any impression at all. But out of context on their own. I really think some of them are just terrific. The opening number was wonderful but the songs were just poorly framed in the storytelling, I guess. There was so much happening in the story and in the staging that the music just did not resonate for some reason. I mean they left NO impression. Well that's not true. I thinks it's called I DON'T NEED A ROOF? That was beautiful. It was strange. The same thing happened with his music in ADDAMS FAMILY. I never even bothered with that recording. Maybe I would enjoy that out context. Of course, I thought that was a truly awful show. Your post reminds me that I heard a demo of...is there something called titledGIANTS..something??? In BIG FISH. The demo...beautiful.....in the show, did not register at all. I remember thinking when I saw the show the first time, what happened to the song about Giants. Strange, I know. Clumsy storytelling...set a song up poorly....it just sort of evaporates. Gonna get ADDAMS FAMILY now. What's your favorite track on that one?

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