God, those orchestrations! No matter how often I listen to the cast recording, I never cease to marvel at them.
Yes, they are really wonderful. (I seem to remember a long time ago out here extolling the wonderful quirky wind writing in "We Don't Matter At All" among other things.) It's a shame that the licensed version did so much rearranging - in particular, cutting all the strings and reassigning the most prominent string stuff to winds and brass. Just not the same at all.
But it is an odd show. Jack Cassidy as Max Menken got star billing, and that caused problems, according to Prince.
Yes - among other things, having a show ostensibly about Superman with an unknown character getting top billing instead of Clark/Superman does seem more than just a little crazy. ;-) Though it's also always been funny to me that Cassidy is essentially playing Kodaly again, just in a different setting. ;-) |
