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| re: John Simon on "Musicals Endangered" | |
| Posted by: Ncassidine 01:07 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
| In reply to: John Simon on "Musicals Endangered" - bwayjoey 12:51 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
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| What a strange article, mentioning the lack of songs to hum and the lack of a new musical from an 89 year old writer criticized for lack of hummable songs in the same paragraph. | |
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| half the article is on a show that isn’t on broadway | |
| Last Edit: dramedy 01:20 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
| Posted by: dramedy 01:18 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
| In reply to: re: John Simon on "Musicals Endangered" - Ncassidine 01:07 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
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| Clearly the theater owners and/or producers knew it would bomb on broadway. And I consider tootsie a crappy musical. Hadestown score outshines even Andre. We are due for another good musical comedy like producers and book of Mormon |
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| re: half the article is on a show that isn’t on broadway | |
| Posted by: JohnPopa 04:05 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
| In reply to: half the article is on a show that isn’t on broadway - dramedy 01:18 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
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| And, of course, Steinman - and a good deal of the songs in 'Bat out of Hell' - started in theater. He recycled them as pop hits but they were intended to be show tunes, 50 years ago. | |
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| re: half the article is on a show that isn’t on broadway | |
| Posted by: Sam890 08:51 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
| In reply to: re: half the article is on a show that isn’t on broadway - JohnPopa 04:05 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
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| I was about to make the same point. I have no intention of 'defending' Bat Out of Hell, but the most cursory research on Simon's part would reveal that a lot of the material was always intended for a musical theatre production. | |
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| re: half the article is on a show that isn’t on broadway | |
| Last Edit: JohnPopa 09:16 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
| Posted by: JohnPopa 09:16 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
| In reply to: re: half the article is on a show that isn’t on broadway - Sam890 08:51 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
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| Right, I haven't seen it but have no doubt it's something of a hot mess, but it's the hot mess musical Steinman's been working on for years! | |
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| re: half the article is on a show that isn’t on broadway | |
| Posted by: mikem 12:01 am EDT 09/03/19 | |
| In reply to: re: half the article is on a show that isn’t on broadway - JohnPopa 09:16 pm EDT 09/02/19 | |
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| JohnPopa, I did not know much about the show until you mentioned this. I did not realize that he literally wrote some of the songs in 1968! It's impressive that he has been working on this for so long. | |
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