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| Posted by: PlayWiz 11:32 am EST 12/19/17 | |
| In reply to: Don't chop "Chop Suey"! - WaymanWong 11:04 am EST 12/19/17 | |
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| Not to mention "Sunday", another wonderful up-tempo, cheery song not always cited in the R&H output. "Don't Marry Me" and " I Am Going to Like It Here" are enjoyable as well. I agree that it's a terrific score, and Pat Suzuki on the OCR sounds like an American girl with a great big voice singing show-stopping tunes. Miyoshi Umeki's character, being an immigrant to the US, sounds different than the others in the cast, and that's intentional, as the others are as American as Curley and the folks from "Oklahoma!" or "Carousel". | |
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| "I Am Going to Like it Here" | |
| Posted by: Delvino 01:50 pm EST 12/19/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Don't chop "Chop Suey"! - PlayWiz 11:32 am EST 12/19/17 | |
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| When I was a kid, it was my favorite song from the show, and its performance in the film (which came out, and I saw in the theater) just captivated me, mysteriously. It's still one of Rodgers most beautiful and simple melodies. | |
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| re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 04:48 pm EST 12/19/17 | |
| In reply to: "I Am Going to Like it Here" - Delvino 01:50 pm EST 12/19/17 | |
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| It was my favorite song in the show too, as a kid, and it still is. I think it's one of the most extraordinary songs ever written for Broadway, with its gorgeous melody, ever gentle but gaining surprising emotional power by the end. I also love the lyric, the way the second and fourth lines of each stanza become the first and third lines of the next. Hammerstein patterned it on an east Asian verse form whose name I can never remember--but AlanScott can tell you! : ) | |
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| re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 12:38 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" - keikekaze 04:48 pm EST 12/19/17 | |
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| I'm not AlanScott (nor have his encyclopedic knowledge), but Hammerstein based it on a pantoum, derived from pantun, a Malay verse form. It involves interwoven quatrains, and ''I Am Going to Like It Here'' is just another one of ''Flower Drum's'' enchanting songs. |
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| re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 04:37 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" - WaymanWong 12:38 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
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| Yes, thank you, Wayman--"pantoum" is the word I was looking for. | |
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| re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" | |
| Posted by: BruceinIthaca 12:48 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
| In reply to: re: "I Am Going to Like it Here" - WaymanWong 12:38 pm EST 12/20/17 | |
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| I, like others, have always found it haunting--I remember my mom taking me to the movie when I was a child at the Lake Theatre in Oak Park, IL, and loving the whole show, but the simplicity of the song was so appealing to a child. My mother had grown up with the wife of the advance man for the Rodgers and Hammerstein organization, so when a touring company of one of their shows (or one the organization had produced) came through Chicago, my parents, who at the time were a young couple, poor as church mice, got comps--allowing them to see South Pacific, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music, among others. And they somehow also saw My Fair Lady--as my mother remembered Anne Rogers, who I later saw as Lucille in the tour of No, No, Nanette. Memories. | |
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