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| re: Happy 70th birthday to Lucie Arnaz! | |
| Posted by: pecansforall 09:25 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
| In reply to: Happy 70th birthday to Lucie Arnaz! - WaymanWong 04:48 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| She deserved a Tony nomination but I wonder if she didn't get nominated because THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG was generally considered to be "not much of a musical". Critics of the show often point out how little there is of a score. Compared to other musicals the score was rather slight (especially sparse in Act II). The show won no Tony Awards. I thought the original Broadway production was fantastic. One of my favorite memories. |
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| re: Happy 70th birthday to Lucie Arnaz! | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 11:12 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 11:06 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Happy 70th birthday to Lucie Arnaz! - pecansforall 09:25 pm EDT 07/17/21 | |
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| I really enjoy Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager's score to ''They're Playing Our Song,'' and it's better than it's given credit for. The title tune is especially fun and catchy, and I adore ''Fallin','' which has one of Sager's best lyrics, and ''Fill in the Words,'' cleverly done with toy pianos. Obviously, nothing could've (or should've) beat Stephen Sondheim's spectacular ''Sweeney Todd'' for Best Score. But I would've nominated ''They're Playing Our Song'' over the disappointing scores from the flop shows ''Carmelina'' (by Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner) and ''The Grand Tour'' (by Jerry Herman). And I don't know how ''Eubie!,'' a revue of songs by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle, largely from the 1910s and 1920s, qualified for Score. (I also believe Carol Hall deserved a Tony nomination for her wonderful pop-country songs to ''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.'') Musical taste is subjective, but it's as if the Tonys chose to recognize more traditional musical-theater scores over more pop-sounding ones. |
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