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re: Does anybody see what I see?

Posted by:	showtunetrivia 09:07 pm EDT 08/13/14
In reply to:	Does anybody see what I see? - Chazwaza 07:34 pm EDT 08/13/14

Yes, Mr. Chazwaza, I do. I'm sorry if I startled you. I couldn't sleep, because I was playing SWEENEY TODD and FOLLIES and GREY GARDENS and 1776 over and over and over... :) I'll do that with works that are not exactly the height of genius, too. I'll just get grooved into something and, like you, find more things I like about a score with repeated playing. My family calls it obsession. Laura

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re: Does anybody see what I see?

Posted by:	Chazwaza 08:38 pm EDT 08/14/14
In reply to:	re: Does anybody see what I see? - showtunetrivia 09:07 pm EDT 08/13/14

:) Yes, those are on the list as well... but Sweeney Todd is one of the most acclaimed and appreciated musicals ever written, certainly as much as can be expected of something that dark focusing on murdering and eating people for revenge. Follies, though there isn't enough appreciation in the modern world for how genius I think this show is, it is nonetheless one of the most passionately loved and obsessed over shows ever written, and has enjoyed 6 major productions in NYC (OBC, Concert, RTC revival, recent revival, Encores, and I'm even counting Papermill despite not being NYC) and many recordings, and a book about it, etc, etc. It has never been appreciated by enough people for my tastes, but I think it's been pretty damn well appreciated. 1776 is a great musical, and it has some great songs, but also some serviceable ones, and though it has many moments and scenes that achieve brilliance, I don't marvel at it in any way the way I do with the others mentioned. And Grey Gardens I love, and act 2 is near genius from top to bottom... but act 1, though fitting well into the whole, isn't what I'd call "genius" or "brilliant" it's what I'd call tuneful, entertaining and serviceable to set up act 2. So it's not quite on the level as a show that I think Caroline or Change, Sunday, Sweeney, Follies, etc are on, which are, for my money, staggeringly brilliant from beginning to end.

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