| re: The Encores "Not Pal Joey" |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 10:56 am EDT 10/06/23 |
| In reply to: re: The Encores "Not Pal Joey" - KingSpeed 03:53 pm EDT 10/05/23 |
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Many of the songs in CFY were written for story-based musical theater. Many of them were written for story-based movies. Some of them were written as stand-alone songs in follies show. One of them is a piano roll that George wrote when he was a piano salesman. One of them is a concerto that Gershwin wrote for classical orchestras.
While a good chunk of the songs were written for Girl Crazy, Ludwig also pulled a bunch of the other songs in order to fit the plot of the musical he was writing, including using one song that had been effectively lost until 1982.
It may not be a full-fledged jukebox musical, but it was a significant step along the way, and it uses a great deal of songs that weren’t intended for musical theater as we know it. |
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