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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: lanky 06:46 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 06:10 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| Quite likely that I confused the two articles. Time and memory will do that. Now that you cite these, I do remember Champion's comment about cutting the overture from "Carnival." Was it rather unusual, or a departure, for a show not to have an overture at that time? Have to disagree with Champion, though, when he says that overtures are dull. Tell that to someone who just s saw "Gypsy." If audiences talk through overtures, the audience, not the overture, is likely the problem. Also, did "Dolly" have an overture at any time during its tryouts? |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:49 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - lanky 06:46 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| Audiences did talk through overtures even then, at least if I can trust anecdotal evidence, including some of the great ones. But I like overtures, too, as I just posted in reply to BigM. It was unusual for a show back then not to have an overture. Not quite unheard of, but unusual. |
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| re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: lanky 08:59 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - AlanScott 06:49 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| I remember a letter to the Times Arts and Leisure section, probably appearing in the summer of '62, in which the writer complained of hearing "not one bar" from the overture to "Milk and Honey" at a then-recent matinee. Wanna bet you can find it, AlanScott? lol | |
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| LOL, yes | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:36 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
| In reply to: re: "Bye Bye Birdie" overture - lanky 08:59 am EDT 06/28/19 | |
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| June 17, 1962, Very good. Funny letter. Thanks for pointing me toward it. | |
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