| re: NEW - LOLITA, MY LOVE - Talkin' Broadway's Review | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:27 am EST 02/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: NEW - LOLITA, MY LOVE - Talkin' Broadway's Review - keikekaze 05:26 pm EST 02/26/19 | |
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| Just a couple of little things: In the show, Mark Bruckner is not married. FWIW, I happen to think that the show is unfixable, that the problems are too basic. Lerner produced at least four versions, and he never fixed it. Maybe if he hadn't been having his drug problems, he would have figured it out. Anyway, if it could be fixed now, it would need new songs. Mandelbaum wrote that Lolita, My Love was "as good a musical as could have been made from the novel." Much as I admire a lot of the score, I can't agree with him on that. Even after just posting a long reply to NewtonUK in which I said that I don't like to separate books from scores, this is a case where I do separate them. For whatever reason, on this show the quality of Lerner's writing in his lyrics was generally — not always, but most of the time — a good deal higher than his dialogue. The basic scheme of the show was pretty sound, and most of the score was good to excellent. Too much of the dialogue was not, and Lerner needed a collaborator on the book. Thank you for your eloquently stated points on Paint Your Wagon. I'll just add that I think Love Life is one of those shows where the flaws don't matter much. I think it was a good show and it is a good show, if a bit too self-conscious and clumsily written in some places (mostly in the final sequence). Other than that, my earlier reply to NewtonUK on the subject of Lerner pretty much states what I feel. |
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