| re: A few FOLLIES thoughts | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:24 pm EDT 04/11/21 | |
| In reply to: re: A few FOLLIES thoughts - Michael_Portantiere 01:12 pm EDT 04/11/21 | |
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| I think it is difficult. It was also not used in the Roundabout production, and I know of other productions haven't used it because they ran out of time for the people to learn it. The three songs were not written to be sung together, and they don't fit together especially well. In 1985, there weren't commercial recordings of the section that might have helped the performers. In the score, the time signature switches from 4/4 to 2/4, which I think is a not big thing. I think the main things to remember about that section in relation to the concert is (a) there was very little rehearsal time, and (b) they couldn't see the conductor. In Everything Was Possible, Chapin writes that at the first preview in Boston "putting the three numbers together in the Montage seemed shaky." Those people had had weeks of rehearsal, and they had a conductor they could see. And that was after two dress rehearsals on the day before the first preview, and one in the afternoon on the day of the first preview. So with very little rehearsal, and all the other factors, to which I would add how long had it been since Comden and Green had sung in public with an orchestra, I think it would have been foolhardy to try it. As I said, the night I was there, Montevecchi had trouble staying with the orchestra. And on the first night, Patinkin stopped "The Right Girl" and started over. And he was young. I think the whole thing was very difficult. More rehearsal was needed. I don't know that lack of rehearsal time was the reason for all the things you mention, but I do think it was probably at least part of the reason for not doing the counterpoint at the end of what the score calls the "Montage." I was certainly hugely disappointed by how much of the score was not played and how many changes were made. |
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