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newmoonstar) wrote2009-01-30 06:55 pm
newmoonstar) wrote2009-01-30 06:55 pm
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Just spent far too much money on random pretty things at Barnes and Noble. A journal with a Lady of Shalott cover (notice my icon!) and an oriental rug bookmark and lots of post cards and greeting cards, so if I have your address you will get a pretty card for Valentine's Day! :) Was much amused and almost tempted by the Stephen Colbert bookbag, but frugality finally triumphed.
Listened to Titanic: The Musical cast recording last night, and was quite impressed. I saw one number from it on a TV show back when it first came out, and I remember thinking it was very pretty (it was probably "Godspeed Titanic" since I knew the tune when I heard it again), but the whole score is quite top notch. The stoker has the most lyrical music of all the characters in two wonderful numbers, there's even some fun stuff in a cute period-inflected number about "Doing the Latest Rag", and even the rather ominous stuff leading up to and during the sinking has a strange beauty about it. It's pretty heavy story-wise, since unlike the famous movie of the same name, it's about 'Titanic as microcosm of and commentary on society' rather than a single character who happens to be on the Titanic, but it's never confusing and comes together very well, as well as being just downright more interesting. I think I'll read the libretto, and give it another listen before moving on in my Broadway Odyssey. :)
Listened to Titanic: The Musical cast recording last night, and was quite impressed. I saw one number from it on a TV show back when it first came out, and I remember thinking it was very pretty (it was probably "Godspeed Titanic" since I knew the tune when I heard it again), but the whole score is quite top notch. The stoker has the most lyrical music of all the characters in two wonderful numbers, there's even some fun stuff in a cute period-inflected number about "Doing the Latest Rag", and even the rather ominous stuff leading up to and during the sinking has a strange beauty about it. It's pretty heavy story-wise, since unlike the famous movie of the same name, it's about 'Titanic as microcosm of and commentary on society' rather than a single character who happens to be on the Titanic, but it's never confusing and comes together very well, as well as being just downright more interesting. I think I'll read the libretto, and give it another listen before moving on in my Broadway Odyssey. :)