| re: And then the "Bandstand" recording. Wow, just wow. | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 07:41 am EDT 06/27/17 | |
| In reply to: re: And then the "Bandstand" recording. Wow, just wow. - AlanScott 11:19 pm EDT 06/26/17 | |
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| I'm on your team Alan. While waiting almost half an hour for Laura Osnes to do anything other mime sadness at getting the news that her husband has been killed (leading one to immediately to guess, rightly, where the plot was going), one has time to wonder why there were no African American musicians in the US Army during WW2. WW2 in many ways brought 'oridinary' white American GIs in touch with other races. Certainly one of the guys coming back to form this band could/have would/have been black. As someone else has mentioned in a review, the score would have to much better than it is to make us not wish that this had been a juke box musical. And thats a rare wish for me to have. The real music of this period is so much better than anything in this score - and this score does slyly quote here and there a bar or two from famous, better songs of the post war era. And could they please stop dancing during dialogue scenes - and when you're putting on a coat and hat, just put on coat and hat. Don't suddenly dance into them for no reason. |
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