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| re: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 07:59 pm EDT 08/14/20 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 07:58 pm EDT 08/14/20 | |
| In reply to: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC - Leon_W 03:55 pm EDT 08/14/20 | |
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| I only saw it on Broadway and liked it quite a bit. I don't remember the book being so bad and I loved the final ballad. My biggest problem were the Leigh Bowery outfits which I thought were dumbed down. I'm a huge Leigh Bowery fan. | |
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| re: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC | |
| Posted by: 37Rubydog 03:18 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC - singleticket 07:58 pm EDT 08/14/20 | |
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| It was a totally different storyline involving a Vivienne Westwood like character...Boy George and Leigh Bowery we’re not the central story. But Imo London was far superior to bway. | |
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| re: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 09:24 pm EDT 08/14/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC - singleticket 07:58 pm EDT 08/14/20 | |
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| I loved Taboo! Beautiful score. It was overproduced and complicated by Rosie's high profile. If it had played at NY Theatre Workshop first or in some funky downtown space it could have been "discovered" and then moved to Broadway. | |
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| re: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC | |
| Posted by: mattyp4 12:30 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC - Billhaven 09:24 pm EDT 08/14/20 | |
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| Yes this would have been perfect. And a Broadway transfer to Circle in the Square-- as someone mentioned above-- would have been ever better. I still enjoyed the show when I saw it but yes, it was very flawed. And Boy George (the real Boy George....who played Leigh Bowery in the show) apparently stormed out of the theater before curtain the night I went b/c the cast had just been informed of the closing. Curtain was very late & there was no mention of an understudy. Kind of a bummer but at least I got to see it. (I still listen to the cast album a lot.) |
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| re: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC | |
| Posted by: 37Rubydog 03:22 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC - mattyp4 12:30 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
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| Boy George used to visit a playwright in my sister’s building...I suspect at the time he was having substance issues (she mentioned that his hygiene was less than one might expect)...but being upset isn’t a surprise...this was such a personal story and he had a lot of which to be proud. The score is beautiful. | |
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| the score as a whole is quite a bit better on Broadway, but the book... and direction... | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 09:40 pm EDT 08/14/20 | |
| In reply to: re: I wish the original London production of Taboo had come to NYC - Billhaven 09:24 pm EDT 08/14/20 | |
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| I adore the score, and the revisions/cuts/additions for broadway i think make for a quite notably better overall score and collection of songs. But the rest of the show... i wish it were better but it just isn't. | |
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| re: the score as a whole is quite a bit better on Broadway, but the book... and direction... | |
| Posted by: sf 02:07 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
| In reply to: the score as a whole is quite a bit better on Broadway, but the book... and direction... - Chazwaza 09:40 pm EDT 08/14/20 | |
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| I didn't see the show on Broadway, but the Broadway cast recording gets the music quite badly wrong. British pop music of that era, including Culture Club, is characterised by a combination of slickness and artlessness. The Broadway arrangements are a little bit too smooth, too glossy. They take a score that in London did quite a good job of evoking the show's milieu and render it bland. And also the accents from everyone who isn't British are laughably appalling and the keychange-too-far that's shoehorned into the Broadway version of Talk Amongst Yourselves brings new meaning to the word 'bathos'. The London show wasn't perfect, but the Broadway album is almost unlistenable. |
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| re: the score as a whole is quite a bit better on Broadway, but the book... and direction... | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 02:32 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
| In reply to: re: the score as a whole is quite a bit better on Broadway, but the book... and direction... - sf 02:07 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
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| And yet I listen to it all the time! I never gave a second thought whether the British pop music sounds authentic or not . I just enjoy the songs and the performances. | |
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| yeah, I love the obc album and listen to it often. (NM) | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:08 am EDT 08/16/20 | |
| In reply to: re: the score as a whole is quite a bit better on Broadway, but the book... and direction... - Billhaven 02:32 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
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| re: the score as a whole is quite a bit better on Broadway, but the book... and direction... | |
| Posted by: sf 03:17 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
| In reply to: re: the score as a whole is quite a bit better on Broadway, but the book... and direction... - Billhaven 02:32 pm EDT 08/15/20 | |
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| If I hadn't seen the London production before I bought the Broadway cast album - and if the early-to-mid 80s hadn't been my major period of pop fandom - I might dislike the Broadway album less. The voices are terrific, although they're not always matched well with the songs. It wouldn't be any easier to get past the dreadful accents, though. | |
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