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

Posted by: lordofspeech 08:21 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - Chazwaza 07:01 pm EDT 03/16/14

The puppeteer in CARNIVAL, someone who cannot express himself in person, has two great soliloquy songs. That might be the way to go for a character who doesn't express himself to others.


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

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 10:49 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - lordofspeech 08:21 pm EDT 03/16/14

"The puppeteer in CARNIVAL, someone who cannot express himself in person, has two great soliloquy songs. That might be the way to go for a character who doesn't express himself to others."

Excellent point.


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kind of like Billy Bigelow

Posted by: Chazwaza 02:56 pm EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - Michael_Portantiere 10:49 pm EDT 03/16/14

Who doesn't express himself well and is very similar in many ways to the type of character you have in Brokeback, and has one of the greatest songs/soliloquies in musical theater.

No one said a musical must be a straight up literal adaptation of the actual dialogue and actual goings on of the movie or novella where people sing what used to be dialogue.

In Carousel, Carnival, "He Wanted To Say", Light in the Piazza, and many other musicals and probably operas... there is evidence of using music as a metaphor and/or juxtaposing sparse dialogue with lush or rousing or beautiful songs that express something words can't (or that the character doesn't know how to say or refuses to say).


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

Posted by: LegitOnce 06:43 am EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - Michael_Portantiere 10:49 pm EDT 03/16/14

So you're saying a musical of "Brokeback Mountain" needs puppets?


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

Posted by: Chromolume 11:15 am EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - LegitOnce 06:43 am EDT 03/17/14

Maybe Rod and Nicky could star? ;-)


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

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:44 am EDT 03/17/14
In reply to: re: Jason Robert Brown should have adapted BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN instead of BRIDGES... - Chromolume 11:15 am EDT 03/17/14

Perfect!


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