"Nevertheless, after the show (Finding Neverland) premiered to tepid response, Weinstein fired the entire creative team and hired another one. Chief among the changes made was jettisoning a beautiful operatic score by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie and replacing it with an anachronistic, more poppy score by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy. "
Having heard the score to Finding Neverland, I agree 100% with the author's opinion that the score was "anachronistic and poppy". But, having never heard the original score, I wonder if it truly was "beautiful and operatic". Did anyone here see the show in its original inception? How was the score? Was any of it recorded? Will it ever be recorded in the future? It would be interesting if the songwriters were to find a book writer who could take their songs and put them into a totally new version of the Finding Neverland story. After all, "true" stories cannot be copyrighted and there are several books, two plays and a BBC mini-series that basically tell the same story as FINDING NEVERLAND. |
