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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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