| re: The Encores "Not Pal Joey" | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 01:23 pm EDT 10/06/23 | |
| In reply to: re: The Encores "Not Pal Joey" - Chromolume 12:30 pm EDT 10/06/23 | |
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| I agree about Anything Goes (or even the new Pal Joey), but the ratio in Crazy for You is quite different, though, as is the construction of the play. The script is wholly original, with Ludwig keeping only the starting premise of Girl Crazy (Easterner goes West and falls in love). The score includes 21 songs, of which only 6 are from Girl Crazy. Of the remaining, 4 are from the movie “A Damsel in Distress”, 3 are from the movie “Shall We Dance”, 2 are from “Treasure Girl”, and then 1 each from “Oh, Kay!”, “George White’s Scandals” (being “Stairway to Paradise”, which is not sung in the show but serves as the main theme for the showgirls’ entrance), “Ladies First” (which featured the first song written by the Gershwin brothers), and “Primrose” (which was written for the West End and didn’t premiere in the States until 1987), as well as excerpts from the musical pieces Rialto Ripples and Concerto in F. The resulting musical is much more like the films “An American in Paris” and “Funny Face” - both arguably jukebox musicals by the common definition of a show featuring songs not written for it - than it is “Girl Crazy”. It’s not a show with some interpolations, it’s something crafted entirely from the ground up pulling from the Gershwin oeuvre. |
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