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newmoonstar) wrote2011-03-24 06:56 pm
newmoonstar) wrote2011-03-24 06:56 pm
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musicals
Today's dose of happy stuff is: Musicals! While my Broadway Odyssey of exploring musical theater through listening to as many cast recordings as I can find has dropped off for the last year or so, I still do it when I can, and my most recent happy discovery is 110 in the Shade. A lovely little musical from 1963, it has an extremely fine score; highlights include the melodious 'Gonna Be Another Hot Day' and 'Rain Song' among other gems. The cast is great, filled with really talented singers of the kind that unfortunately are getting quite rare in musicals these days. Definitely required listening.
Also watched the Les Miserables 25th anniversary concert on PBS. I never cared for the show itself, but hey, free musical theatre is free musical theatre, and this had a really great cast of the aforementioned increasingly scarce amazing singers. The only unfortunate point was Nick Jonas as Marius, since he is pop star with a pop voice, and couldn't hold his own against all those powerful operatic voices. But everybody else was great, and even though I find most of Les Mis way too heavy and ponderous, there were some nice moments that made it worthwhile to sit through all four hours. (Although finding out they've got school children doing this show is rather disturbing; I hope they changed it A LOT for the kids, because asking some ten year old to play a prostitute would be more wrong than I can possibly imagine!!)
Now that I'm over whatever weird virus I had for the last two weeks, hopefully I'm done being ill for the foreseeable future, and might possibly start sewing again. So maybe the Broadway Odyssey might continue at a jauntier pace, since I'm going to need something to listen to when I'm cutting and laying out pattern pieces. :)
Also watched the Les Miserables 25th anniversary concert on PBS. I never cared for the show itself, but hey, free musical theatre is free musical theatre, and this had a really great cast of the aforementioned increasingly scarce amazing singers. The only unfortunate point was Nick Jonas as Marius, since he is pop star with a pop voice, and couldn't hold his own against all those powerful operatic voices. But everybody else was great, and even though I find most of Les Mis way too heavy and ponderous, there were some nice moments that made it worthwhile to sit through all four hours. (Although finding out they've got school children doing this show is rather disturbing; I hope they changed it A LOT for the kids, because asking some ten year old to play a prostitute would be more wrong than I can possibly imagine!!)
Now that I'm over whatever weird virus I had for the last two weeks, hopefully I'm done being ill for the foreseeable future, and might possibly start sewing again. So maybe the Broadway Odyssey might continue at a jauntier pace, since I'm going to need something to listen to when I'm cutting and laying out pattern pieces. :)