| re: I Married An Angel | |
| Posted by: Musicals54 09:16 am EDT 06/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Remembering really forgotten Broadway musicals - hanon 02:31 pm EDT 06/15/22 | |
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| I saw it as well. It is exactly a perfect Encores show. It was a hit in its time. No show I've seen makes it so clear as to the art form Oklahoma! transformed - some would say turned into an art form. Here we have a fantasy set in Hungary about the complications wrought by marrying a real angel. So what happens in Act II, a minor character says something like "if we were in NYC we could see the show at the Roxy Music Hall. Suddenly we spend something like 20 minutes to half an hour with a satire of the acts at the music hall with the major players playing entertainers at the music hall including the leading man making fun of a show he starred in "to hell with burgundy" (joke being not the place, but the wine)... Had Oklahoma! followed that template we have taken a half an hour out of the show the what Will Parker saw at the KC Burley Que. Imagine - Ado Annie is the stripper, Aunt Eller is the star stripper, Laurie is the naive girl in the comic sketches.... Etc Etc. Many of the old shows had stage directions such as "Mr. Bolger will now do 15 minutes of business." Mack and Mabel, btw, has a book that doesn't fit the score as was made clear. My view of Dear World is that it is a small show and it should be a play with songs - for the the Countess and the other mad women. (may ½ the score). This, by the way, was Michael Langham's solution for Cyrano out of town, cut most of the score, do it as a play with songs. He got fired and replaced by Michael Kidd in yet another of his decades long series of flops. |
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