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re: THE LAST SHIP, KINKY BOOTS, CAPEMAN, TOMMY... and other Bway musicals by pop composers

Posted by: MarcoBarco 05:18 pm EST 11/24/14
In reply to: THE LAST SHIP, KINKY BOOTS, CAPEMAN, TOMMY... and other Bway musicals by pop composers - GrumpyMorningBoy 03:56 pm EST 11/24/14
The factor you're not addressing is the book, which is usually the reason a show works or doesn't, and by book, I mean not just the dialogue but, more significantly, the story, the idea, the theme, the "why we should give a damn."

The failure of the shows you mentioned above has much more to do with the books of those shows than the scores.

I'm not saying that pop songwriters are particularly great at writing theatre songs... most of them don't know there's a difference.

But look at KINKY BOOTS - it has a good story, a good theme, a reason to give a damn, and an experienced bookwriter at the helm. And I really like Cyndi Lauper's score, but if she were writing a different project with a less effective collaborator, she might not have fared so well, and that wouldn't say anything about her ability to write a good theatre score.


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