| re: not bad, CINDERELLA |
| Posted by: GavinLogan1 09:00 am EDT 04/08/23 |
| In reply to: re: not bad, CINDERELLA - theaterislife 02:59 pm EDT 04/06/23 |
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100% agreed.
I’ve always hated the statement about it being an unmemorable score… Whenever that is used, I roll my eyes. No score is memorable after one listen, even if a couple of tunes might stick in your head… It’s after repeated listens that you become familiar with a piece.
Stephen Sondheim always hated when people would talk about how his melodies were unhummable. Every melody is unhummable if you’ve heard it once—it’s the repeated familiarity with a show that allows you to start understanding the nuances in intricacies of all the different songs, as well as how the melodies of certain songs are woven into others to make a tapestry of a score…
You’re not getting that on one listen, and especially not getting that if you go to the theatre deciding already that you’re going to hate the show because of who wrote it. |
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