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re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom

Posted by: simbo 04:05 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom - NeoAdamite 03:35 pm EDT 05/10/15

"Shrek" started including "I'm a Believer" as a curtain-call song about a year into the run (it also showed up in the Thanksgiving parade that year - it didn't help as the show closed just after new years)


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re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom

Posted by: MarjorieMae 04:18 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom - simbo 04:05 pm EDT 05/10/15

According to IBDB "Never on Sunday" was included in the musical Illya Darling. But the song was written years before for the film Never on Sunday and won the Oscar for best original song in 1960.


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re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom

Posted by: NeoAdamite 04:38 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom - MarjorieMae 04:18 pm EDT 05/10/15

According to IBDB "Never on Sunday" was included in the musical Illya Darling

I assume this was considered a success (320 performances in 1968), but even so this may not be a good example--"Sunday" composer Hadjidakis did the rest of the show, too.


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re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom

Posted by: AlanScott 08:09 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom - NeoAdamite 04:38 pm EDT 05/10/15

No, not considered a success. Great reviews for Melina, but mostly negative reviews for the show. An ad in the Times the first Sunday after the opening was headed (not too surprisingly) "MELINA" and featured barely a single quote about anything but the star (although Walter Kerr's quoted mention of "Melina locked in the muscular embrace of a handsome dock worker without a shirt" may have brought some gay men to the box office).

Audiences probably liked it a bit more than critics did as even with a big advance, a 10-month run suggests some audience appeal after the advance sale ran out. But it closed at a loss (probably a big one), and there was no tour, although Cyd Charisse did a stock tour. It may have been given a shot in the arm when Clive Barnes, not yet the Times theatre critic when it opened, reviewed it in November 1967 and said that the show had improved a bit since the opening thanks to a few changes, though he also said more changes still would be helpful. He basically said that it was better than the reviews might have made people think ("at least a notch or so above average," still not something you'd want to quote in an ad) and that "audiences seemed to love it."


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re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom

Posted by: AlanScott 04:34 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom - MarjorieMae 04:18 pm EDT 05/10/15

One difference in the Illya Darling/Never on Sunday case is that the composer of the film score, including the song, composed the score for the musical.


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re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom

Posted by: BruceinIthaca 04:33 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom - MarjorieMae 04:18 pm EDT 05/10/15

I never saw the play, but I assume "Footloose" probably had the Kenny Loggins song somewhere in it. Anyone know for certain?


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re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom

Posted by: NeoAdamite 04:41 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom - BruceinIthaca 04:33 pm EDT 05/10/15

The songstack shows five pop songs, so I assume it was meant to function like a jukebox show.

Link Footloose

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