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| re: Anyone see 'Look to the Lilies,' the Broadway musical of 'Lilies of the Field'? | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:59 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone see 'Look to the Lilies,' the Broadway musical of 'Lilies of the Field'? - den 06:48 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
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| Look to the Lilies did not get a Broadway Cast Recording. The show received mostly bad reviews, including 3 pans, according to Suskin. However, both Suskin and Mandlebaum lead me to believe that the critics were too tough on the show. Booth and Freeman seem to be well cast. Styne's music sounds pleasant, but he really needed collaborators like Comden, Green, and Laurents. The source film, Lilies of the Field, was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and is regarded as a classic. Poitier won the Best Actor Oscar -- the picture got 5 noms total. Jerry Goldsmith's score, including the rousing gospel number "Amen", probably could not have been equaled by Styne's music. Cahn's lyrics were not very good. |
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| re: Anyone see 'Look to the Lilies,' the Broadway musical of 'Lilies of the Field'? | |
| Posted by: den 08:25 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone see 'Look to the Lilies,' the Broadway musical of 'Lilies of the Field'? - BroadwayTonyJ 07:59 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
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| I think that may have been one of the reasons for the show's failure. The 'Amen' number from the film was not in the show, but I suspect that's what audiences came to hear, and there was nothing in the score, pleasant though it was, that compensated for its absence. | |
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| re: Anyone see 'Look to the Lilies,' the Broadway musical of 'Lilies of the Field'? | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 05:22 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone see 'Look to the Lilies,' the Broadway musical of 'Lilies of the Field'? - den 08:25 pm EST 01/09/22 | |
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| I bet the stage adaptation of the film SISTER ACT had the same problem, although it seems to have had a life post-Broadway. The stage adaptation of PRETTY WOMAN finally included the Roy Orbison song as a post-curtain call sing-a-long because, apparently, audiences were disappointed that it wasn't included in the show's otherwise original score. I always wondered if the cast got a salary bump for performing added material after the opening night. Actually, there's probably been a lot of movie-to-stage adaptations that had to deal with the "Do we include the hit song?" question. Did the flop BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S musical include "Moon River?" |
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| re: Anyone see 'Look to the Lilies,' the Broadway musical of 'Lilies of the Field'? | |
| Posted by: larry13 01:05 am EST 01/11/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Anyone see 'Look to the Lilies,' the Broadway musical of 'Lilies of the Field'? - JereNYC 05:22 pm EST 01/10/22 | |
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| "Moon River" was NOT in the flop musical according to both the Internet Broadway Database and Wikipedia. Even thought neither source is infallible, I would have been greatly surprised to learn the song had been included in a 1966 Bob Merrill musical. | |
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