I loved this show, is the CD worth purchasing? Thanks.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
"I think Glee is way too sharp, smart, witty, clever and emotionally confronting for the masses." - Dave19 -
"What's next? Snow Black and the 7 Swaggers? Shasquirta and the Beast? 101 Weavematians?
Willis in Ghettoland?" - Dave19, in reference to the new ANNIE remake.
No, it's the right thing. It's just Marin Mazzie complaining about the temperature in the room and then 72 minutes of a vamp from Into the Woods. Really disappointing for fans of the show.
Oh, so you were trying to be funny? Many of the songs are very close to the original songs from the musical (CARRIE, EVE WAS WEAK, EVENING PRAYERS, UNSUSPECTING HEARTS, I REMEMBER HOW THOSE BOYS COULD DANCE, WHEN THERE'S NO ONE)..so I think it's confusing/misleading to say that "The Carrie cast album turned out to contain none of the music from the show".
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
And on the second disc you just hear her eating a buritto bowl from Chipotle for 20 minutes. And it ain't pretty.
"I think Glee is way too sharp, smart, witty, clever and emotionally confronting for the masses." - Dave19 -
"What's next? Snow Black and the 7 Swaggers? Shasquirta and the Beast? 101 Weavematians?
Willis in Ghettoland?" - Dave19, in reference to the new ANNIE remake.
Seriously, I listened to it a lot when I first got it, and now the only song I listen to with any regularity is When There's No One. The score doesn't really hold up to frequent listening.
I've enjoyed it, too. The only number I find uninteresting musically or dramatically is "Why Not Me," which is too ruminative and subdued to pinpoint the sense of the expectation of a teenager; it also meanders on without its hook catching. Even if "I'm Not Alone" was tonally wrong, it had more youthful hope. The rest of the score holds up well enough, or features songs that contribute to the story ("The World According to Chris" does its job nicely, and is catchy). If you ever liked any aspect of the score, this album is a must. What struck me is how much of the story has been musicalized. Many colleges and others will try to produce this, thinking the story a slam dunk, but I think it's deceptively complex.
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"I think Glee is way too sharp, smart, witty, clever and emotionally confronting for the masses." - Dave19 -
"What's next? Snow Black and the 7 Swaggers? Shasquirta and the Beast? 101 Weavematians?
Willis in Ghettoland?" - Dave19, in reference to the new ANNIE remake.
I'm one of the few Broadway aficionados who hadn't heard the score until this album came out (I like bootlegs only if I'm already familiar with a score). I now totally get why people are fascinated by this show. I don't think a lot of the songs necessarily hold up (I find "The World According to Chris" extremely jarring after "Eve Was Weak" and "Unsuspecting Hearts" makes me roll my eyes, but I get why people like them), but oh my God, some of the songs are as good as something from a Sondheim musical. Both "Eve Was Weak" and "I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance" (the Margaret section, the "Mama, don't you think it's time..." section and the end should have been separated into a different track just to have the song as a solo for Mazzie) are absolutely thrilling musical theatre. Mazzie is spectacular as Margaret on the recording, I eventually listened to the original bootleg and love Buckley in those numbers as well, both of them great in their own way. I definitely recommend getting the album, it's pretty fascinating stuff.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
I think Sondheim is a stretch, especially since the lyrics range from the effective to the abysmal - "I prayed this day would never come I might have know. Now I'm alone."
Oh, definitely the lyrics are not Sondheim-level, I guess I was referring more to the ability to musicalize an entire scene and establish a dramatic relationship between the characters, something I think Sondheim is an expert at. Total overkill to compare it to Sondheim, I was trying to say that those songs are incredibly effective dramatically speaking, and they're sort of unconventional in their style (they're not just arias, like say "When There's No One" or some of the more traditional numbers).
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
I first 'got into" musicals because I saw Sweeney Todd and thought wow, I can't believe how the composer (who obviously I later learned was Sondheim) used music to so effectively tell a story for so many of the songs (e.g. MY FRIENDS, EPIPHANY) - it really made me understand why the music was necessary and without it I knew something would be missing.
And I really think that some songs in CARRIE (specifically EVE WAS WEAK and perhaps THOSE BOYS) are that good in terms of musicalising a scene, drama etc..
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
I thought the musical was great fun. Shakespeare it was not, but I was never bored watching it. And while I like the original bootlegs better, the new Carrie CD is a welcome addition to my collection.
"...even if it's only one minute - with a man talkin' quiet and his hand touchin' her face."
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Posted: 12/15/12 at 06:01pm