kitten@pertec.UUCP (karen hettinger) (12/27/84)
This weekend I had the opportunity to watch for the first time since
childhood the movie version of R & H Sound of Music. Sure, it was
edited for television (by Joe the Butcher down the street from the
studio), but I enjoyed it even more than I had as a child. I hummed
the overature and sang along with the songs as if I'd heard them last
week.
What I'd like to discuss is what makes the R & H formula work? I know
in the back of my brain that I have been exposed to several of their
works in the past, but I'm having trouble recalling, and some I'm
afraid I may've mixed up with other playwrights/composers. Does
anyone have a list? Which is your favorite, and why? Have you
seen different productions of the same play? Working on Cinderella
this fall was fun, but SoM is my all time favorite. Unlike many
productions, I like *all* the musical numbers, and with an adult's
insight into the situation of Nazi-occupied Austria, I find the
story more than merely entertaining.
Write, I love a full mbox.
--
kitten~
{ucbvax!unisoft | scgvaxd | trwrb | felix}!pertec!kittenadolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) (01/02/85)
*** YOUR MESSAGE *** > What I'd like to discuss is what makes the R & H formula work? I know > in the back of my brain that I have been exposed to several of their > works in the past, but I'm having trouble recalling, and some I'm > afraid I may've mixed up with other playwrights/composers. Does > anyone have a list? Which is your favorite, and why? Have you > seen different productions of the same play? Working on Cinderella > this fall was fun, but SoM is my all time favorite. Unlike many > productions, I like *all* the musical numbers, and with an adult's > insight into the situation of Nazi-occupied Austria, I find the > story more than merely entertaining. A related question is whether The Sound of Music, if released today, would be as popular, or is it so listenable/watchable because the music is SO INCREDIBLY familiar. I mean, although I really like "16 Going On 17", it really is quite a corny song when you get right down to it. By the way, I saw a production of this several years ago in a dinner theater in the round. Very interesting the way they used such minimal set pieces, none of which was more than a few feet tall so that no view would be blocked. I think it worked quite well. -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph "We'll cross out that bridge when we come back to it later"
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (01/04/85)
> I mean, although I really like "16 Going On 17", it really is quite > a corny song when you get right down to it. > I'm as corny as Kansas in August...(to quote another R&H musical)
sck@elsie.UUCP (Steve Kaufman) (01/04/85)
> > I'm having trouble recalling, and some I'm > > afraid I may've mixed up with other playwrights/composers. Does > > anyone have a list? I imagine there must be at least one library in this country where the card catalog can help you put together such a list.
chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui Q. Koala) (01/05/85)
>A related question is whether The Sound of Music, if released today, would be >as popular, or is it so listenable/watchable because the music is SO INCREDIBLY >familiar. Now? Probably not, but theater goes in cycles. There was a time when a Cats or a Sweeney Todd or an Evita would have died at the gate, and a Chorus Line would have languished off broadway somewhere as well. One of these days someone will start doing serious light musicals again and they will be back. For a while, of course. -- From the ministry of silly talks: Chuq Von Rospach {allegra,cbosgd,decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA Deadbone erotica is the prickly panic of forgotten milleniums, it is the moldy billion year madness that creeps deep along the spinal behind of my mind.