| re: CORRECTION: Regarding frequency of HERE'S LOVE productions in Chicago area | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 09:28 pm EST 01/01/19 | |
| In reply to: CORRECTION: Regarding frequency of HERE'S LOVE productions in Chicago area - BroadwayTonyJ 07:49 pm EST 01/01/19 | |
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| Your earlier post, combined with Jax’s posts, persuaded me to listen to the OBCR, including the tracks that I'd never listened to before. It is nice that Masterworks Broadway keeps these on youtube, although it’s not always easy to find the complete playlists in order. (I think I’ve figured out that you have to include a principal cast member’s name in your search, e.g., Here’s Love Janis Paige Original Broadway cast, in order to easily find the complete playlist.) Anyway, there are a few decent numbers in there, apart from "You Don't Know," and they are mostly the ones that the critics liked. I can see how "That Man Over There" and "My State" must have played well in the theatre. Even “Pine Cones and Holly Berries / It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” comes off well enough on the recording. So now I would say that not all of the score is awful, and it does seem like both “That Man Over There” and “My State” were played for a certain degree of intentional absurdity in the original production. Still, even “That Man Over There,” though a decided highlight, would have profited from less repetition in the lyric. It was surprising to me to hear how well Paul Reed sang. It probably shouldn’t have surprised me since I had at some point come across some operettas, including some Gilbert and Sullivan, among his credits. There’s a passage in it that musically makes me think of “The Ruler of the Queen’s Navy,” not that it’s identical or that it’s really anything much like a G and S patter song. Anyway, Reed comes off very well on the recording. Btw, there’s a really noticeable little flub during “My State.” I’m surprised that Goddard Lieberson chose that take (or decided to leave it at only one take). Unfortunately, some of the score remains something like unbearable to me, and Craig Stevens should have been dissuaded from sustaining any notes. :) |
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