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Winterim Musicals:
By Jeeves
Goya
Mamma Mia
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
In the music room right now, I am shifting my composer focus to George and Ira Gershwin. I have already taken in Porgy and Bess and have tickets to see it on stage this coming Sunday which will give me a much deeper look into their shows. Additionaly, I listened to Strike Up the Band which was full of ironic humor and big brassy theatre music. I am also trying to build on my base of experience with Andrew Lloyd Webber because he's coming up so much in my bigger pictures such as metadrama and the pop musical world and thus my recent experience with By Jeeves. Additionaly, Goya, concerning the Spanish artist, blew me away musicaly and now takes its place as the first representative from Spain for my musicals around the world map although that position will most likely be shared eventually by Man of La Mancha, the most famous Spanish orinted show based on the novel Don Quixote. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown was good for examining famous vocalists such as Kristen Chenowith (Music Man, Wicked) and Anthony Rapp (Rent, Hedgewig and the Angry Inch). Additionaly, I finished watching the filmed DVD of Sweeny Todd. Though act 2 is less impressive musicaly, it moves the story along well and I found it more enjoyable. The other DVD work I did over winterim was to watch the movie musical, Footloose, which would go on and inspire the stage show. It was interesting to see what songs were from the original and how the movie format changed the presentation of the story, but Im still ruminating on the exact techniques though immediately aparent were the video editing techniques to show the dancing as has been the trend with movie musicals since the advent of MTV.
By Jeeves
Goya
Mamma Mia
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
In the music room right now, I am shifting my composer focus to George and Ira Gershwin. I have already taken in Porgy and Bess and have tickets to see it on stage this coming Sunday which will give me a much deeper look into their shows. Additionaly, I listened to Strike Up the Band which was full of ironic humor and big brassy theatre music. I am also trying to build on my base of experience with Andrew Lloyd Webber because he's coming up so much in my bigger pictures such as metadrama and the pop musical world and thus my recent experience with By Jeeves. Additionaly, Goya, concerning the Spanish artist, blew me away musicaly and now takes its place as the first representative from Spain for my musicals around the world map although that position will most likely be shared eventually by Man of La Mancha, the most famous Spanish orinted show based on the novel Don Quixote. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown was good for examining famous vocalists such as Kristen Chenowith (Music Man, Wicked) and Anthony Rapp (Rent, Hedgewig and the Angry Inch). Additionaly, I finished watching the filmed DVD of Sweeny Todd. Though act 2 is less impressive musicaly, it moves the story along well and I found it more enjoyable. The other DVD work I did over winterim was to watch the movie musical, Footloose, which would go on and inspire the stage show. It was interesting to see what songs were from the original and how the movie format changed the presentation of the story, but Im still ruminating on the exact techniques though immediately aparent were the video editing techniques to show the dancing as has been the trend with movie musicals since the advent of MTV.