| re: LuPone or Close or Buckley... |
| Posted by: bway1430 02:33 am EDT 06/16/20 |
| In reply to: LuPone or Close or Buckley... - peter3053 05:28 pm EDT 06/13/20 |
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"what made it hard for the show to succeed was that it simply didn't need the songs. The film script is tight as a wire and the intended suspense comes from it. Most of the songs are stage-waits, people telling us things we already know about them or things that were best left unsaid and available to our emotional imagination. "
You've just described about 75% of what has counted as a musical since The Black Crook. And as for the "Miss Desmond" moment that you found so 'maudlin', to a whole lot of folks that was pure theatrical magic and the song that follows that moment one of the finest in a musical these past few decades (and Sondheim claims he wish he had written it). |
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