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| re: ‘‘Tis the season; of “Here’s Love”’s unsung small treasures | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:36 pm EST 12/26/18 | |
| In reply to: ‘‘Tis the season; of “Here’s Love”’s unsung small treasures - Delvino 10:17 pm EST 12/21/18 | |
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| I've said before here that Here's Love may be the only Broadway musical of the 1960s whose cast recording I cannot get through. But I've managed to listen to most of it, and the only song I like at all is that one. God, some of it is painful. And as noted elsewhere, Willson was, by Broadway standards, a very well-educated and experienced musician. People sometimes seem to have the impression that he was some sort of musical idiot savant, but that's a completely wrong impression. | |
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| re: ‘‘Tis the season; of “Here’s Love”’s unsung small treasures | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 09:23 am EST 12/27/18 | |
| In reply to: re: ‘‘Tis the season; of “Here’s Love”’s unsung small treasures - AlanScott 06:36 pm EST 12/26/18 | |
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| Try getting through Maureen O'Hara's "Christine" which premiered in 1960. She had a lovely voice, but man, that's a hard one to listen to once through. | |
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| re: ‘‘Tis the season; of “Here’s Love”’s unsung small treasures | |
| Posted by: Ned3301 10:29 pm EST 12/28/18 | |
| In reply to: re: ‘‘Tis the season; of “Here’s Love”’s unsung small treasures - PlayWiz 09:23 am EST 12/27/18 | |
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| Christine is a very uneven and at times even bizarre score, but it does have some nice tunes in it, along with some very dramatic pieces. Here's Love is pretty dead all the way through. Christine also has some good singing voices, both operatic and semi-operatic, while Here's Love gets by on pop singers with a limited expressive range. |
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| re: ‘‘Tis the season; of “Here’s Love”’s unsung small treasures | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:47 pm EST 12/27/18 | |
| In reply to: re: ‘‘Tis the season; of “Here’s Love”’s unsung small treasures - PlayWiz 09:23 am EST 12/27/18 | |
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| It's true that I haven't listened to all of that one, but I've listened to some of it. I think I could get through that one if I tried. :) Christine at least flopped. It's so hard to imagine how 10 months of audiences went to Here's Love, and then it toured. Obviously, it had a big advance, but it just sounds so awful on the cast recording, and the advance alone would not have kept it going that long. I guess people really wanted to see that movie onstage, or it was perceived as a family show, or something. Maybe it played better than it sounds on the recording. |
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