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| CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 11:03 am EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: what might their next hit revival be? - Chazwaza 03:57 am EST 01/05/22 | |
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| I love the original production of Contact, although I would not have voted it the Best Musical Tony award. It certainly has a score. It's just not an original one, and it's not sung live, and the music is not performed by a live orchestra -- too many caveats (IMO) to be the Best Musical winner. That said, it was a great show (Notice: I am not calling it a musical) and I'm glad I saw it with the original cast. | |
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| re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:38 am EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! - BroadwayTonyJ 11:03 am EST 01/05/22 | |
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| Thanks for intently not calling it a musical! :) Yes, plays have scores too... movies have scores. Of course I mean an original tapestry of songs written for the show and sung by performers in the show. |
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| re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 12:01 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! - Chazwaza 11:38 am EST 01/05/22 | |
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| I knew what you meant. I was just trying to chide you, to get you to lighten up a bit. I wanted to get in my joke about a Broadway show really having a soundtrack and to emphasize my feeling that Contact is a show, but not necessarily a musical. BTW (and changing the subject), the '54 film On the Waterfront has a great score by Leonard Bernstein. He doesn't conduct the orchestra on it, but he does play the piano on at least one cue. There is a complete CD soundtrack recording of its score, and it is just as memorable as his Broadway scores. There are moments in the score that forecast (I hope that's the right word) the music he would compose for West Side Story. |
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| re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:20 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! - BroadwayTonyJ 12:01 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
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| Oh, I got it. Did my smiley face not signal that? :) |
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| re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 12:31 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! - Chazwaza 12:20 pm EST 01/05/22 | |
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| I'm too old to figure out emoticons. Of course, I should have just googled it, my bad. | |
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| re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! | |
| Posted by: writerkev 11:41 am EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! - Chazwaza 11:38 am EST 01/05/22 | |
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| The creators of the piece themselves didn't call it a musical until the critics did. When the show started at the Mitzi Newhouse, it was billed as "a dance play." | |
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| re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:56 am EST 01/05/22 | |
| In reply to: re: CONTACT -- a Rare Original Broadway Production that has a Recording that Can Legitimately Be Called a SOUNDTRACK! - writerkev 11:41 am EST 01/05/22 | |
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| Yep! And I didn't mean this thread to veer into a debate on if Contact is a "musical (luckily there's been no debate yet, those who replied seem to agree with me), but it's just such a shame it got forced into that category in a year with so many worthwhile and actual musicals. It wasn't in one of the years where Jukebox musicals dominated... it took the award from musicals where the craft of writing and performing musicals was on full and varied display in The Wild Party (easily my choice for "best musical"), Aida, Marie Christine, even James Joyce's The Dead... and even Putting It Together might have snuck in with a Best Musical nomination had it not been for Contact. At least Swing! was a revue with singing (though of course not better as a piece of original theater than Contact). I suppose if one doesn't like either LaChiusa musical or Aida then this must seem like a very weak year, but I happen to love them both and I respect Aida for what it was as an original musical and production and its long run and many passionate fans who must have been quite perturbed and confused by the Tonys that year. |
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