| re: Aida wasn’t nominated for best musical |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 03:57 pm EST 02/14/20 |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 03:52 pm EST 02/14/20 |
| In reply to: Aida wasn’t nominated for best musical - dramedy 03:27 pm EST 02/14/20 |
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I'm sure you'll not be shocked that I'm going to argue about act two. I agree "People Like Us" was the best of the show and of the season, but act two (i assume you mean the part two after midnight, i.e from "After Midnight Dies" and on, as there was no intermission) has other incredible developments and pay offs and songs, like:
When the Golden Boy Went Down
More
Love Ain't Nothin
How Many Women in the World
When It Ends (wowza!)
This Is What It Is
and that ending!
But either way that isn't even the second half, the majority of the show happens before midnight, and from the opening notes through the entire party section (which ends with "People Like Us") is absolutely thrilling to me - live in the theater and on the album. And I'd say the tone and action in the show and score deflates exactly the right way, the way the party does after it climaxes. I think it's written this way on purpose, and brilliantly. But I'm clearly a bigger fan of the show and of the post-party-climax songs than you. |
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