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

Posted by:	keikekaze 12:14 am EST 11/25/14
In reply to:	re: THE LAST SHIP, KINKY BOOTS, CAPEMAN, TOMMY... and other Bway musicals by pop composers - Chromolume 11:04 pm EST 11/24/14

Chromolume--come and sit by me! : ) I agree with every word. "The Party's Over" is an example I might have chosen myself of a perfect theater song. (It may be Comden and Green's best lyric--and it is literally a lyric, not a narrative.) Ella doesn't go on and on telling us her life story--we already know the story, because we've been watching the musical. The few perfectly well-chosen words "The party's over . . . It's time to wind up/ The masquerade,/ Just make your mind up/ The piper must be paid" tell us everything we need to know about what Ella is feeling at this moment, and that, by this time, is what we in the audience are feeling, too.

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