| Oh me, Oh my ... | |
| Posted by: StanS 09:52 am EDT 05/11/18 | |
| In reply to: So, how is Me and My Girl? - Ann 08:57 am EDT 05/10/18 | |
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| can that Noel Gay guy write a great tune! "Me and My Girl" is in my top 10 of all musicals because of its wonderful score. I've never actually seen the show, but I fell in love with it when I played piano in the pit for a Village Light Opera Group production in 2003. Last night at City Center I was for the most part in musical comedy heaven with some caveats. The biggest one was the City Center sound system which was terrible from where I was sitting, which was the front of the balcony. It's hard to describe but the voices sounded diffused, sometimes sounding like they were coming from multiple places. I often couldn't get the words even in the dialogue. A friend I was with said he had seen the dress rehearsal from the Mezzanine and didn't have that problem there. The production itself is spectacular. Every cast member was wonderful, and the orchestra MAGNIFICENT (very important to me). Even here though, some quibbles: while I generally liked Christian Borle's singing, his rendition of Leaning on a Lampost fell flat to me. Whereas Robert Lindsay stretched the phrases and was bursting with ecstatic anticipation, Borle sang it straight and kind of sullen, as if he didn't really expect the little lady to actually come by. It almost seemed an intentional interpretation, but why? Quibble 2: Lisa O'Hare constistently sang wrong notes in "What's going to happen to me". Quibble 3: What happened to the whistle section of the dream ballet of "Leaning on a Lampost"? Hey guys, the whistle is the only thing playing the melody there. Otherwise, the dream ballet, my favorite part of the score, was sublime. |
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