Threaded Order Chronological Order
| re: What are Charles Strouse's best non-hit songs? | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 06:05 pm EDT 07/01/20 | |
| In reply to: What are Charles Strouse's best non-hit songs? - DistantDrumming 12:08 am EDT 07/01/20 | |
|
|
|
| "I've Just Seen Her" from All-American, with its sinuously descending chromatic lines "Night Song," "Everything's Great," "Stick Around," "Lorna's Here," "This Is the Life," "While the City Sleeps," and the title song from Golden Boy--a truly superior score "We Don't Matter At All" from Superman One song from each score I didn't mention because they were all sort-of hits, getting some airplay outside the theater: "Once Upon A Time" from All-American, "I Want To Be With You" from Golden Boy, and "You've Got Possibilities" from Superman |
|
| reply to this message |
| Golden Boy | |
| Posted by: Whistler 06:46 pm EDT 07/01/20 | |
| In reply to: re: What are Charles Strouse's best non-hit songs? - keikekaze 06:05 pm EDT 07/01/20 | |
|
|
|
| Yep, Golden Boy is my favorite work by Strouse and Adams. It seems their most sophisticated. | |
| reply to this message |
| re: Golden Boy | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 12:01 am EDT 07/02/20 | |
| In reply to: Golden Boy - Whistler 06:46 pm EDT 07/01/20 | |
|
|
|
| I think it was their only score together that was a musical play rather than musical comedy. | |
| reply to this message | reply to first message |
| re: Golden Boy | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 06:25 pm EDT 07/04/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Golden Boy - keikekaze 12:01 am EDT 07/02/20 | |
|
|
|
| Not that comedies aren't plays, but couldn't you say Applause was a musical play as well? It has its splashy moments, to be sure, but it's as much a play as a comedy. Golden Boy strikes me as being by far the better of the two, although having never actually seen it I am only surmising. | |
| reply to this message | reply to first message |
| re: Golden Boy | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 05:57 pm EDT 07/05/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Golden Boy - TheOtherOne 06:25 pm EDT 07/04/20 | |
|
|
|
| I agree that Golden Boy is by far the better score of the two. And I think you're right that Applause is technically a musical play too, just as the film All About Eve is really more of a drama than a comedy, except that it has such amusing dialogue and so many really funny punch lines that I think most people tend to think of it as a comedy. I usually think of it as a comedy myself, and I sometimes automatically carry that over to my thoughts about the musical. | |
| reply to this message | reply to first message |
Time to render: 0.016995 seconds.