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| re: "Me and the Sky" | |
| Posted by: MikeR 02:04 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "Me and the Sky" - Delvino 01:39 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
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| Maybe that will become more clear when you see the show. | |
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| re: "Me and the Sky" | |
| Posted by: Ann 03:02 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "Me and the Sky" - MikeR 02:04 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
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| I had some of the same feelings when I saw the show (which was my introduction to the score). It takes a long time to get to "And the one thing I loved more than anything was used as the bomb," but that's what places it in the show. I don't remember thinking about her being more isolated than anyone else - she was away from her passengers, but she was lodged with her crew and with other pilots and crews, and a lot of the passengers were in small groups. My question about the show (and the same from the friend I was with) is why does Rodney Hicks speak in such an odd way when portraying the character who was scared his wallet would be stolen ... he speaks very loudly and in an awkward way (a non-pc description would be that he seems to have some kind of mental disability). |
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| re: "Me and the Sky" | |
| Posted by: mikem 06:24 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "Me and the Sky" - Ann 03:02 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
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| I saw Josh Breckenridge, Hicks's understudy, who did not speak in that fashion. I'm not sure why the character would need to be that way. By the way, Breckenridge was really excellent in the role. |
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| re: "Me and the Sky" | |
| Posted by: mikem 06:18 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "Me and the Sky" - Ann 03:02 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
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| I really like Me and the Sky as a song, although I think it's a bit derivative of Life Story from Maltby and Shire's Closer Than Ever, down to the somewhat random mention of the protagonist's age plopped into the middle of a verse (49 in Life Story, and 51 in Me and the Sky). Jenn Colella's rendition of Me and the Sky is wonderful. But it's very weird to hear this song within this show. As others have mentioned, the song sticks out as being the only solo song in the entire production. And the song is mostly a backstory about the protagonist's struggles against sexism, and it has very little to do with the remainder of the musical. And in the staging, the song ends abruptly before the last lyric when the phone rings, and Colella picks up the phone, says she'll be right there, and walks off the stage. It's a peculiar ending for the audience -- is she coming back? Is the song over? There's no clear explanation later of who called her or where she went; it's just a method to get her off the stage. And none of the themes brought up during the song are ever brought up again in the show. (On the cast recording and in TV show appearances, Colella sings the last word - "sky" - but not in the show. I get that Christopher Ashley wanted to eliminate the applause button, but if you don't want to have the applause button, there are other ways of handling that. ) |
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