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re: Does anybody see what I see?

Posted by:	EvFoDr 09:26 pm EDT 08/13/14
In reply to:	Does anybody see what I see? - Chazwaza 07:34 pm EDT 08/13/14

Count me in! I've been in that place with Spider Woman lately. I saw the original in 1994, and a tour a few years later, and a production at NYU a few years ago. Lately I became completely obsessed all over again, as if I had never seen or heard it before. I went to see the original production at TOFTS recently, and at some points almost couldn't breathe I was so taken away. That prompted me to re-watch the film and I was struck at how great it is when people actually ADAPT material rather than just rehash a movie or book. And it's so packed full of amazing songs, it's almost embarrassing. I think from Anything For Him through to the end is just so mind blowing. That fantastic trio which is, for me, the emotional center of the whole piece, to the eerie surreal title song, to the Lucky Molina/Over The Wall sequence (sadly not included on the OBCR, but happily present on the Vanessa Williams recording), to the finale where Molina's tragedy gets to be a triumph in his imagination. Her Name is Aurora becoming His Name Was Molina... That's maybe my favorite 20 minutes of any show. :-)

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