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this gets my vote...

Posted by: showtunetrivia 06:11 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO and the Interpolation of Doom - NeoAdamite 03:35 pm EDT 05/10/15

...as my favorite subject header of the year. :)

To pick a counter-example, David Merrick and Bob Merrill specifically did NOT want to use the hit song, "Hi-lili, Hi-lo" from LILI when writing CARNIVAL.

Laura


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re: this gets my vote...

Posted by: keikekaze 10:25 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: this gets my vote... - showtunetrivia 06:11 pm EDT 05/10/15

David Merrick and Bob Merrill specifically did NOT want to use the hit song, "Hi-lili, Hi-lo" from LILI when writing CARNIVAL.

And the reason for that, of course, was that the motivation for adapting a movie to the musical stage then was entirely different from now. Musical creators then looked to the movies simply to supply a suitable plot that had already been put into dramatic form (as a screenplay) that would provide the springboard for a musical theater experience that was meant to be something new and different--not (as now) as slavish an imitation of the movie as possible. As an emblem of that difference, producers in the old days almost never used the title of the original movie being adapted; today, they wouldn't dream of using anything but the original title.


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Posted by: Chromolume 11:11 pm EDT 05/10/15
In reply to: re: this gets my vote... - keikekaze 10:25 pm EDT 05/10/15

However, they certainly came up with a comparable "theme" song in "Love Makes The World Go Round" - equally simple, folk-ish, and inviting - but yet not melodically similar to the film song at all.


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