I may be minority opinion hee, but I think the show works better with the San Diego charts which Sebaski scored almost like a classic musical in the period CATERED ACFAIRIS set in, full of orchestral color. The Tuni k replacements are small, chamber style which gave the whole piece a mournful, lifeless sadness. I atteneed a Princeton lecture where director Doyle interviewed the brillianthe Tunick. Tunick said he was asked to provide film noirish, "Max Steiner" style charts...indeed he did BUT that's a misread of the source material. Watch the original film: it's vibrant and full of quirk, not sad and mojrnful. I feel the orchestrations that Doyle threw away refleck the life and color missing in what we saW on .bwy.
By the way, didn't feel the Fierstein stuff out of place at all. It was just a more honest rendering of the Barry Fitzgerald character than we got in the 1950s. |
