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| Last Edit: Chromolume 05:37 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 05:30 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
| In reply to: St Bridget - throwaway - bearcat 04:34 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
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| I think that if you treat "What Do You Do With A BA in English" as its own song, instead of part of an opening sequence that leads us to "It Sucks To Be Me," you might count that. One version of The Baker's Wife started with a French folk-ish guitar/vocal thing called "Bienvenue A Concorde," sung by a minor character, that really added nothing to the show (except time) - starting straight off with "Chanson" was a much smarter choice. There's that bit of guitar/vocal "Este fuego" which opens Man Of La Mancha, though it seems as if this was added at some point and not yet set in the show at the beginning of its run. (It was not in the first printing of the score, then added for the revised score which is what is published now. It may be that it was something improvised, then later set.) The Will Rogers Follies opens with that introductory chorus of "Let's Go Flying," though "Will-A-Mania" feels like the real opening. Similar in Kinky Boots with the Price and Son Theme followed by "The Most Beautiful Thing In The World." Somewhat ironic that the song "K-ra-zy For You" is, IMO, a (very) weak throwaway number at the start of Crazy For You, never heard again after that (except in some incidental moments). "I Can't Be Bothered Now" feels more like the opening number. |
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| re: K-ra-zy For You - throwaway | |
| Posted by: B_Rabbit 11:22 am EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: St Bridget - throwaway - Chromolume 05:30 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
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| To me, it's particularly ironic that the song, K-ra-zy For You is completely misinterpreted in the musical known as Crazy For You. Ira Gershwin's lyric makes fun of slang, and how contemporary speakers seem to willfully mispronounce plain English. You've chosen a good way to type the title: The first word is supposed to be three syllables. Which is kind of funny. Except in Crazy For You it isn't and it isn't. Cray. | |
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| re: K-ra-zy For You - throwaway | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 11:34 am EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: K-ra-zy For You - throwaway - B_Rabbit 11:22 am EDT 07/07/17 | |
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| I imagine that the bit of the song that's there was only included by the creative team because they wanted to use the title CRAZY FOR YOU for their show. They probably didn't care what the intent was, only that they could find a place to shoehorn in it. | |
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| re: K-ra-zy For You - throwaway | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 12:40 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:35 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: K-ra-zy For You - throwaway - JereNYC 11:34 am EDT 07/07/17 | |
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| I imagine that the bit of the song that's there was only included by the creative team because they wanted to use the title CRAZY FOR YOU for their show. They probably didn't care what the intent was, only that they could find a place to shoehorn it in. I agree. (And B_Rabbit, just to make sure we're on the same page, the song as listed in the score is indeed printed as "K-ra-zy" - that wasn't my doing.) The other irony about the title is that Madonna's song with the same name as the show was a huge hit only a few years earlier. I know that you can't copyright titles, but when I first heard of the show as it was being developed, my mind went to that pop hit, not to anything by Gershwin, lol. (Similarly, when the show Never Gonna Dance came out, my instinct was to think of George Michael, not Kern.) ;-) |
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| re: St Bridget - throwaway | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 06:57 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:56 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
| In reply to: re: St Bridget - throwaway - Chromolume 05:30 pm EDT 07/06/17 | |
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| I can't swear to this but I think that guitar opening to Man of La Mancha was there from the beginning, or at least from the Broadway opening night. The Guitarist was in the opening night cast list, and the condensation in the 1965-66 Best Plays mentions a guitar playing in the opening sequence. It may be that it was, as you suggest, improvised early in the run and then later set, but something was there. Perhaps some financial arrangement had to be made with the original guitarist, and that's why it was not in the first publication of the score. | |
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