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| re: The rejected multi Tony Winner REDHEAD for years | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 12:26 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The rejected multi Tony Winner REDHEAD for years - PlayWiz 11:03 am EDT 03/18/22 | |
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| I know you have mentioned Greenwillow in the past, which is another show whose score I love. Are you familiar with the 1957 Broadway musical Simply Heavenly or the 1963 off-Broadway musical The Streets of New York with the score by Richard B. Chodosh and Barry Alan Grael? | |
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| re: The rejected multi Tony Winner REDHEAD for years | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 12:52 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 12:48 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The rejected multi Tony Winner REDHEAD for years - BroadwayTonyJ 12:26 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
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| I've listened to "Simply Heavenly" on the internet, as it was mentioned by Ken Mandelbaum in "Not Since Carrie" as being among excellent scores in a flop show. Some very good songs indeed. That book is excellent in pointing out some of those relatively undiscovered great scores. I believe some folks have mentioned "The Streets of New York", but I've never heard it. I would love to see "Goldilocks" especially with a full orchestra playing those Leroy Anderson (lyrics Walter and Jean Kerr and Nancy Ford) songs with their great orchestrations. I saw a Musicals Tonight small-scale production some years ago (a newspaper article said that even Elaine Stritch went to a performance!), and it was enjoyable even on a small-scale. "The Happiest Girl in the World" has an OCR that has a full fabulous orchestra (maybe bigger in the studio than in the theatre), but hearing those Offenbach tunes with the E.Y. Harburg lyrics with a big orchestra would be thrilling. |
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| If you want some idea of the charms of GOLDILOCKS in actual performance, here are excerpts of a university | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 01:57 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 01:49 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The rejected multi Tony Winner REDHEAD for years - PlayWiz 12:48 pm EDT 03/18/22 | |
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| performance of it at University of Sheffield in England about 10 years ago. I don't know if it's an American touring troupe or if they are British students, because their American accents sound pretty darn good. It's a small orchestra, but the strength of the score is very evident. You, of course, don't have to, but I watched the whole thing since I love the score. The girl in red doing the Elaine Stritch part is actually very good in her own way. At the end, the audience appears to love it, too. (You may have to go back to start of clip.) | |
| Link | GOLDILOCKS by University of Sheffield |
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