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Jan. 22nd, 2009 06:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newmoonstarOkay, the BBC has just gotta stop making such good Bronte adaptations, because I'm being converted into a total Bronte fan against my will. Now mind you, Wuthering Heights is still totally stupid in my opinion, but it's also lots of fun. The first episode on Masterpiece Theatre was Victorian Soap Opera a-gogo. So much crazy! So much drama! In Regency clothes! And I love the interior they used for Thrushcross Grange. But the best of all is the spectacularly brooding emo craziness of Tom Hardy as Heathcliff. It's like if Gary Oldman had played Heathcliff 15 years ago, but more so. It has to be seen to be believed. I think this is why I never liked Wuthering Heights before, I was taking it too seriously. You have to embrace it's campy Days-of-Our-Lives-in-petticoats side. With that in mind, I totally can't wait for the next episode!
On the Broadway cast album front, I'm utterly in love with The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The music is great, and the cast is great, and it's a great idea, and well, the whole thing's just great! 'Moonfall' is an eerily beautiful number, and all of the numbers that Howard McGillin sings in are great because he's great in them. Now, mind you, because of it's unique 'solve it yourself' format, it's an entirely confusing cast album toward the end, no matter how familiar you are with Drood as a book or the many theories surrounding it's conclusion. However, once you read the libretto, it not only makes sense, you find out how bloody brilliant it is. All I can say is go read the libretto, then go listen to the cast album. You won't regret it! All I regret is that Rupert Holmes hasn't made any more musicals! (As far as I've been able to discover.)
On the Broadway cast album front, I'm utterly in love with The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The music is great, and the cast is great, and it's a great idea, and well, the whole thing's just great! 'Moonfall' is an eerily beautiful number, and all of the numbers that Howard McGillin sings in are great because he's great in them. Now, mind you, because of it's unique 'solve it yourself' format, it's an entirely confusing cast album toward the end, no matter how familiar you are with Drood as a book or the many theories surrounding it's conclusion. However, once you read the libretto, it not only makes sense, you find out how bloody brilliant it is. All I can say is go read the libretto, then go listen to the cast album. You won't regret it! All I regret is that Rupert Holmes hasn't made any more musicals! (As far as I've been able to discover.)
