| re: Valjean's journey & Bring Him Home | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 11:07 am EST 02/09/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 10:59 am EST 02/09/22 | |
| In reply to: Valjean's journey & Bring Him Home - jo 11:53 pm EST 02/06/22 | |
|
|
|
| For what it's worth I always felt Bring Him Home was as much a prayer for Marius as for Valjean himself, and that he was thinking of his own earthly mortality during it (and singing of it). And directors love to hide behind "focused on the drama" or "the acting", or in revivals "on the text" (to excuse having a disappointing/"spare" set, in that case) ... to that I say f*ck off, it's a musical, find a cast and a way of directing it that *utilizes* the score as a *musical* text and way of expressing things. In a musical characters sing to express emotion and both inner-thought and outer-thought. It's so disrespectful and misguided and insulting to the form of the musical when a director decides that you don't need good singers because they're prioritizing the acting. In a musical you need to do both, that's the design, the character's text and the acting need to be done IN their singing and in conjunction/harmony with the music. Not always, not for all songs and all characters, but for Valjean, yes. For Javert, yes. For Fantine, yes. For Les Miserables, yes. This isn't a Sondheim show. This is an epic musical with big songs and big singing and we have had it treated this way for decades in London, Broadway, touring, and around the world, in as many (or more?) cast recordings as any other musical has ever had, including two major filmed staged concerts. You cannot write a score like this, condition the world to hear it at certain levels for 20 years, and then when the film finally comes, say "well we want to focus on the acting this time, the singing will be secondary, and if it sounds bad that just means it's real." |
|
| reply | |
|
|
|
| Previous: | Valjean's journey & Bring Him Home - jo 11:53 pm EST 02/06/22 |
| Next: | re: Fully Agree - Chromolume 12:27 pm EST 02/06/22 |
| Thread: | |
Time to render: 0.008839 seconds.