| The two closing songs in the Bacall musicals, APPLAUSE and WOMAN OF THE YEAR: dreadful. | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 09:14 am EST 12/09/17 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:10 am EST 12/09/17 | |
| In reply to: WORST LYRIC IN A SONG IN A MAJOR MUSICAL - Jax 02:15 pm EST 12/08/17 | |
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| She couldn't sing well, which means she should've been given the best lyrics imaginable. Yet she was stuck with two horrors in both of her shows. "Something Greater" (Start with, "Being to your man, what a woman should be-eeeeee...") and "We're Gonna Work It Out," in which she and Sam prosaically visited Dr. Joyce Brothers. I'll just leave the title as the stellar example of the wit. Both songs have that "place holder" feel, things that might've been written to be fixed once the show was up and running on the road. They are among the worst things ever written by both accomplished teams, Adams and Strouse and Kander and Ebb. Applause has such mediocrity baked into its book and lyrics, it's hard to isolate one bad example. Almost everything Bacall was given is either too literal or too earnest. ("I'm a thousand different people, every single one is real!" "Hurry back. There's no life at all with you not here to hold me..." "Number two is sex! All the way...") But Woman of the Year has some enjoyable and professional stuff in it. It's just deadly the way the show moves from its ll o'clock spot between Cooper and Bacall toward that ghastly final duet. |
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