| re: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 04:23 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 04:15 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
| In reply to: Prediction: Jerry Herman's Musicals will be Relegated to Encores Productions - Zelgo 03:27 pm EST 12/16/17 | |
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| "We Need a Little Christmas" is a holiday perennial. "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" and "It Only Takes a Moment" were used quite prominently in the film "Wall-E" "Hello, Dolly!" is currently selling out. Lots of great songs in the shows you haven't seen; I don't know if you've listened to them or not. "Mame" is hard to cast when the sophisticated actors and actresses who used to be asked to star in Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamoulian, and Billy Wilder films and the like are nowadays spending a lot of time doing Marvel, X-Men and "Star Wars" films. Back then, Angela Lansbury, Janis Paige, Ann Miller and the like could pull it off. Nowadays there are some who could, but there aren't many who are big at the box-office. The problem with many of those composers imitating Sondheim--not all do--is that there really is only one Sondheim. Jerry Herman was carrying on a tradition from among others, Irving Berlin and Frank Loesser, writing enjoyable songs with singable melodies that many great songwriting teams had also promulgated. Sondheim with his concept musicals, at times lacking plot, haven't been too successful for other writers; the most successful concept musical by others since Sondheim started writing is probably "A Chorus Line" (and maybe "Cats", though that's something between a concept musical and a revue). People thought "No, No, Nanette" and "Irene" were passe when they were very successfully revived in the '70s. One never knows when something will become popular again and what will fall out of the standard repertoire. Btw, I'd love to see some of Jerry Herman's less known shows at Encores -- he's one of the major composers whose works they haven't done yet. |
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