Re: Brilliant? Ayn Klaynigkeit!grandiva1968November 26 2008, 01:17:32 UTC
What used to get on my nerves:
When I still had my shop, I’d be sitting (with not much to do) listening to Falsettos and people would keep coming in wondering if it was Sondheim.
Finn has never had Sondheim’s gift of language, and the whole of Falsettos is fully-produced proof. Not that the show doesn’t have songs that rip my heart out and stomp on it, but really, most of the lyrics sound like a high-school poetry project, with all manner of non-sequiturs where Finn tries to force the metric and rhyme scheme (not to mention no concern at all for how lyrics serve character development).
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WHIZZER and JASON:
We do not tippy-toe.
WHIZZER:
We charge ahead to show--
MENDEL:
We're good in bed.
(WHIZZER puts his hand on MENDEL's shoulder.)
WHIZZER:
Excel in bed.
(MARVIN puts his hand on WHIZZER's shoulder.)
MARVIN:
We smell in bed.
(WHIZZER puts his hand on MARVIN's. JASON picks up the bed and hides it behind his back.)
JASON:
Where is the bed?
MENDEL:
I love the bed.
JASON:
Who has the bed?
WHIZZER:
I want the bed.
(MENDEL takes the bed from JASON.)
JASON:
Who stole the bed?
MARVIN:
Who stole the bed?
**I wish they would all go to bed. I never understood his commercial appeal. Yuck!
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What used to get on my nerves:
When I still had my shop, I’d be sitting (with not much to do) listening to Falsettos and people would keep coming in wondering if it was Sondheim.
Finn has never had Sondheim’s gift of language, and the whole of Falsettos is fully-produced proof. Not that the show doesn’t have songs that rip my heart out and stomp on it, but really, most of the lyrics sound like a high-school poetry project, with all manner of non-sequiturs where Finn tries to force the metric and rhyme scheme (not to mention no concern at all for how lyrics serve character development).
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