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re: Brantley's review of Zorba!

Posted by:	BruceinIthaca 11:47 pm EDT 05/07/15
In reply to:	Brantley's review of Zorba! - LynnB 10:54 pm EDT 05/07/15

I've never seen a production, but listen to OCR every so often. I think it one of those lesser Kander and Ebb shows where there are some wonderful songs (I like "Life Is," "Only Love," and the one about the butterfly), but some that just seem to fill up time--I think the same can be said about "70, Girls, 70," which has some of their most fun songs, but also ones i skip when I play the CD, and also "Flora" and "Steel Pier." (And some I love uncritically because of a particular performer or set of performers--"The Rink," "Kiss, "Curtains") But I could say the same about any composer(s)--and when they hit it out of the ballpark ("Cabaret" and "Chicago," in my book). But heresy as it is, I am more likely to put on one of their scores than any particular one by Sondheim or Herman--they seem to me somewhere between them. A bit like Lerner and Loewe in that regard. Your mileage will certainly vary.

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