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re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES...

Posted by: AlanScott 06:39 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - Chazwaza 02:26 pm EDT 03/16/14

"I know that's one of the criticisms people had of the opera, that they didn't want to sing."

One of the reasons why an opera might be felt to be more appropriate is because they are singing all the time, no one suddenly starts to sing because he must express himself lyrically. And in opera the orchestra can tell us what's going on underneath a vocal line that may seem relatively inexpressive. This can happen in musicals, but opera perhaps permits or encourages it more.


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re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES...

Posted by: Chazwaza 07:00 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - AlanScott 06:39 pm EDT 03/16/14

I guess one way to approach it is for everyone to be singing except the two guys... who only sing when they finally get together, and they try to sing with their wives, etc, but the song is always wrong or just sung by the wife when they sing together.

It certainly has the ability to be beautiful or exceptionally silly.


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what a fascinating thread

Posted by: jero 08:40 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - Chazwaza 07:00 pm EDT 03/16/14

who sings? creative team ho.... One of my favorite moments in theater was at The Secret Garden and that quartet and suddenly you hear that small yet large voice crying out "I heard someone crying." I couldn't find her on stage but OH... viscerally.. it was surely something to sing about.


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re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES...

Posted by: AlanScott 07:04 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - Chazwaza 07:00 pm EDT 03/16/14

Well, I think one sings, the other doesn't. ;)

Jack sings, Ennis doesn't. But that's very Do I Hear a Waltz? (or at least what Sondheim thought might be a workable idea).


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Just curious, Alan ...

Posted by: Alcindoro 12:18 pm EDT 03/19/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - AlanScott 07:04 pm EDT 03/16/14

Have you had a chance to listen to BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN as purely a musical/audio experience yet?


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