| re: Time Out's 50 Best Broadway Songs (not an April Fool joke) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:40 pm EDT 04/01/24 | |
| In reply to: re: Time Out's 50 Best Broadway Songs (not an April Fool joke) - ryhog 08:54 pm EDT 04/01/24 | |
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| I'm also not the biggest of fan best lists, although I don't mind lists of favorites so much. "All the Things You Are" was not, to my knowledge, a trunk song. So it was at least written specifically for Very Warm for May. Within the show, it was a performance song, part of the show within the show. And it does serve the function, along with a couple of other songs in the show, of demonstrating that even though the show within the show seems, at least as originally put together, pretty ridiculous, the songs written for that show are anything but. I've actually seen Very Warm for May onstage in one of its few productions after the original. This was back in the 1980s at Equity Library Theatre. A few years later, John McGlinn produced it in concert. While "All the Things You Are" can't be said to work as a character song, not even a sort of indirect one (as "Bill," for example, works), it does work its magic within the show, and thereby can be said to be essential to the story. Another thing complicating the question you raise is that the show that opened on Broadway was not the show that its authors intended. Max Gordon, the producer, forced changes that made the authors unhappy. |
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