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| Frozen Cast Album Disappointing Debut | |
| Last Edit: Naughty_Rob 07:26 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| Posted by: Naughty_Rob 07:21 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| The cast album only sold 4,601 in its debut week! Ouch Hamilton sold more copies last week! Maybe Frozen isn’t going to be such a mega hit on Broadway |
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| re: Maybe Broadway has a future after all ... | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 07:22 am EDT 05/20/18 | |
| In reply to: Frozen Cast Album Disappointing Debut - Naughty_Rob 07:21 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| When I was a sprite I wasnt taken to see TYA shows masquerading as Broadway - they didnt exist. I saw MUSIC MAN, and MY FAIR LADY, and THE MERRY WIDOW, HOW TO SUCCEED, FIORELLO, MOLLY BROWN, CAMELOT .... and fell in love with the theatre ... and perhaps became more of an adult seeing adult theatre as a kid, rather than being pandered to with dancing sponges and singing icicles produced by corporations rather than 'people'. | |
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| re: Maybe Broadway has a future after all ... | |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 12:18 pm EDT 05/20/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Maybe Broadway has a future after all ... - NewtonUK 07:22 am EDT 05/20/18 | |
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| I enjoyed Frozen well enough, but really like your point. Young people in the past found their way to loving the theatre without shows blatantly aimed at them. I remember being taken to community productions of Gypsy, West Side Story, The Fantasticks, and yes Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz, as well as countless viewings of The Sound of Music film. In junior high I was taken to see the tours of Into the Woods, Dreamgirls, and Cabaret starring Joel Grey (little did I know what that meant!). I danced around the living room as a kid equally enthralled with the OCR's of A Chorus Line and Jacques Brel as I was with Annie. And really you haven't lived until you've seen a nine year old create and perform a full dance number to Marathon. :-). I was 11 when my grandparents returned from London with the cast recording of Phantom, and 14 when I saw my first Broadway show in New York, Les Miz. These are all the influences that hooked me, and very few aimed at kids. | |
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| The "Let It Go" video. | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 10:48 am EDT 05/19/18 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 10:47 am EDT 05/19/18 | |
| In reply to: Frozen Cast Album Disappointing Debut - Naughty_Rob 07:21 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| Surprised me. Understandably, it doesn't have any footage of the number (the one spoiler the show keeps under wraps) but plays like a crafted trailer, with backstage shots, etc. What intrigued me is how the number comes across: like an expert cover of Menzel. Levy is a powerful singer, and lands all the money notes perfectly. Yet nothing really feels like her own take except that egregiously interpolated last note. Maybe I've heard it too many times. I expected something that takes the song up a notch emotionally, not just the final overcooked reach. Maybe it's so locked into "if it ain't broke don't fix it" that nothing can be excavated. I did remember again that the number is fairly early in the film, memorably, and that the real act one ending -- in story terms -- is the sisters' reunion in the ice palace. That's the emotional suspense beat. I still find the song a forced save for the end of the first act, though I understand the inevitability of the song's move. As noted, "Anastasia" had to reposition the I Want song in the same place. Maybe one reason both shows suffer is the need to treat the songs as audience expected events rather that pieces of a well-told story. Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe, maybe, maybe; who cares, right? They're both hits. |
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| re: The "Let It Go" video. | |
| Posted by: sf 11:42 am EDT 05/19/18 | |
| In reply to: The "Let It Go" video. - Delvino 10:47 am EDT 05/19/18 | |
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| "Levy is a powerful singer, and lands all the money notes perfectly. Yet nothing really feels like her own take" That's also a perfect description of her performance in 'Ghost', in which she didn't sing the one song everybody knew going in. |
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| Probably a lot of potential buyers have the soundtrack | |
| Posted by: dramedy 10:37 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: Frozen Cast Album Disappointing Debut - Naughty_Rob 07:21 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| So less of a need to buy cast recording especially since the new songs really dont stand out in my opinion. | |
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| re: Probably a lot of potential buyers have the soundtrack | |
| Posted by: Delvino 10:51 am EDT 05/19/18 | |
| In reply to: Probably a lot of potential buyers have the soundtrack - dramedy 10:37 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| "Monster" just isn't ... well, another "Let It Go," to put it kindly. I still marvel at how unsuccessful the number is, at least out of context. The literal, prosaic lyric, the pop-push in the meandering melody. If only the moment was reconsidered in a search for a different color of Elsa. But the pop sensibilities, the need to give a diva another expected root rattler, dominates the strategy. | |
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| re: Probably a lot of potential buyers have the soundtrack | |
| Posted by: lowwriter 12:32 am EDT 05/19/18 | |
| In reply to: Probably a lot of potential buyers have the soundtrack - dramedy 10:37 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| I agree! In comparison the new songs written for Anastasia are quite enjoyable. | |
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| re: Frozen Cast Album Disappointing Debut | |
| Posted by: Pokernight 09:34 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
| In reply to: Frozen Cast Album Disappointing Debut - Naughty_Rob 07:21 pm EDT 05/18/18 | |
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| It'll melt under the heat of blistering reviews | |
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