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re: American Musicals- The Book

Posted by:	MarkBearSF 10:43 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to:	re: American Musicals- The Book - MarkBearSF 10:19 pm EDT 05/07/15

Explanation - some of my choices may not have had the strongest books (Rent) but was included because of their importance in the period. If the list could include non-US creators, I'd have to include "Phantom" and "Le Miz" simply because of the same reason. (Although I personally have no desire to see either again) Also, that period coincides with the peak of my personal god's output, but I really couldn't have 6 of my 8 choices be Sondheim musicals (Company, Follies, ALNM, Sunday, ITTW, Assassins). I left out Follies. The layers in the lyrics (especially the pastiches) and the interplay of real events now and then with the ghosts of memory make it an inexhaustible masterwork. Yet the musical itself seems almost impossible to stage in a manner to fulfill the promise of the concept and score. That, and because the book has also been such an issue, I left it off the list.

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