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.) ;-) |
