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| All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Posted by: frankm 01:54 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: My Fair Lady last night - StanS 12:09 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 07:50 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm - frankm 01:54 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| Reality hasn't measured up to his imagination when hearing all those lovely voices on the ORC. | |
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| re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Last Edit: Unhookthestars 08:05 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| Posted by: Unhookthestars 08:05 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm - PlayWiz 07:50 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| Kinda like how I felt after listening to the cast recording of “Spring Awakening” on repeat for months all the while imagining what was happening on stage and feeling excited about how seeing the show live would resolve the enticing mysteries suggested by the lyrics. Then I finally see the tour and feel disappointed that the reality doesn’t match the fantasy. Biggest disappointment: I thought the book would clarify why the summer was “purple.” It didn’t. I still love the recording, though. | |
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| re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Posted by: SCH 10:21 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm - Unhookthestars 08:05 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| The summer is purple because Sater's prose is purple, and so is his verse. | |
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| re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Posted by: Unhookthestars 12:10 am EDT 05/19/18 | |
| In reply to: re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm - SCH 10:21 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| SCH — Uh, thank you for the clarification. Now, I can rest in peace with Wendla and Moritz. 😂 | |
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| re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Posted by: JayBee 03:11 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm - frankm 01:54 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| I have to admit I was also baffled by someone claiming My Fair Lady being a favorite musical, but never seeing a production s/he liked. Seems an odd choice for a favorite musical if you never liked seeing it. | |
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| re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Posted by: Budinsky 03:55 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm - JayBee 03:11 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| Bingo. | |
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| re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Posted by: StanS 04:22 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm - Budinsky 03:55 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| Did you or the poster you replied to bother reading my reply to this question before you posted? And if you did, why is the concept of loving a musical independent of any production of it so difficult to understand? |
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| re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:47 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm - StanS 04:22 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| FWIW, I don't find it difficult to understand. I love The King and I, Carousel and Oklahoma! despite feeling that I've been disappointed every time I've seen them onstage. But I don't blame the shows. I know they're very good. Not perfect but at least very, very good. It helps that the film versions of the first two are good, even though I don't like many film versions of musicals, and I no longer love the film of The King and I as I did at one time. But it's good enough, better than most film versions of Broadway musicals. | |
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| re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Posted by: StanS 11:44 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm - AlanScott 06:47 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| Thank you AlanScott, WIW is a lot. I was beginning to wonder whether people were being deliberately obtuse or if the concept was just too foreign. I'm reminded of Shaw himself, who regarded Don Giovanni as the greatest of all operas, but despaired of ever being able to witness a production in his lifetime that did Mozart justice. | |
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| re: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm | |
| Posted by: StanS 02:56 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: All time favorite yet no production has ever made you happy? Explain, please. nm - frankm 01:54 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| It's my all time favorite score (with West Side Story a close second). The score is the main thing for me in a musical. It also happens to be my all time favorite book. I base this on a reading of the script, playing through the score on the piano, and listening to the Original Broadway Cast recording. From these materials, I have in my mind how a production that serves this material would play out. Of course I try to keep an open mind to accept different interpretations as long as they still serve the material. But as someone already implied on this thread: The secret to happiness: low expectations. |
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