| re: "We Got Annie"... either version is better than none // need help identifying what it sounds like | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 11:21 pm EDT 06/23/18 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 11:12 pm EDT 06/23/18 | |
| In reply to: re: "We Got Annie"... either version is better than none // need help identifying what it sounds like - SRMHAYES 06:52 pm EDT 06/23/18 | |
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| Snippets of "We Got Annie" are sung in the stage show by Grace, Drake and Mrs. Pugh in the title song. This was a revision done only for the 2012 revival. I don't think it's in the licensed materials, so it's not probably going to be heard that way very often. Listening to it on the recording, it only muddies the already inferior title song. Not a revision that was necessary in any way, IMO. The actual title song, shoehorned into the middle of "I Don't Need Anything But You," always feels to me like someone decided they needed a title song, so they threw it in, much like Herman was talked into writing that ridiculous title song for Dear World. To me, one of the weakest moments in the score, save "You Won't Be An Orphan For Long" which also feels like an idea that was written only half-assed. Also interesting that neither song ends on its own - "Orphan" gives way to a curtain reprise of "Maybe," and "Annie" works its way back into a final refrain of "I Don't Need Anything." Neither "Annie" nor "Orphan" really get any chance to develop into anything on their own. Other than that, I've always really enjoyed the score. "Tomorrow", IMO, belongs in a different show stylistically (it's the only song that really has a 1970's pop flavor in a show that otherwise stays close to 20's/30's pastiche) but I do think it's a better score than a lot of people think it is. |
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