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Matrixman wrote:
lucimay wrote:man! i didn't know this thread was here!!! WOOOOO HOOOOO!!

lets turn it into yet ANOTHER lyric thread!!! YAY!!


Noooooooooooooooooo... (heh)

heh. i knew that would get you! teeeheee :twisted:
Matrixman wrote:Very glad you mentioned this one, Lucimay. I hold Sunday In The Park With George in the highest esteem: the music affected me profoundly in a way that no musical before or since has. Alas, I never saw the original 1984 show w/ Mandy Patinkin and Bernadette Peters, but only heard the cast recording of it. Still, it was magical, even with the visual element missing.
OMG...IT WAS BRILLIANT. i've seen it several times! (not live, recorded, they play it every now and then on public television stations) Patinkin was GREAT as Seurat and Peters! phew! what can i say? does that woman AGE???? she must have a painting hidden somewhere in an attic because i SWEAR i've been watching her since she used to appear on the Steve Allen show when i was a little kid AND SHE STILL LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME!!! bizarre. she was great in Sunday!!


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Spoiler
(see the apology thread MM. :biggrin: )

every day a little death
(a little night music)


CHARLOTTE:
Every day a little death
In the parlor, in the bed
In the curtians, in the silver
In the buttons, in the bread
Every day a little sting
In the heart and in the head
Every move and every breath
And you hardly feel a thing
Brings a perfect little death

He smiles sweetly
Strokes my hair
Says he misses me
I would murder him right there
But first I die
He talks softly of his wars
And his horses
And his whores
I think loves a dirty buissness

ANNE:
So do I
So do I

CHARLOTTE:
I'm before him on my knees
And he kisses me
He assumes I'll loose my reason
And I do
Men are stupid
Men are vain
Love's disgusting
Love's insane
A humiliating business

ANNE:
Oh how true

CHARLOTTE:
Ah well
Everyday a little death

ANNE:
Every day a little death

CHARLOTTE:
In the parlor, in the bed

ANNE:
In the looks and in the acts

CHARLOTTE:
In the curtains, in the silver
In the buttons, in the bread

ANNE:
In the murmurs, in the gestures
In the pauses, in the sighs

CHARLOTTE:
Every day a little sting

ANNE:
Every day a little dies

CHARLOTTE:
In the heart and in the head

ANNE:
In the looks and in the lies

CHARLOTTE & ANNE:
Every move and every breath
And you hardly feel a thing
Brings a perfect little...
Death
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio


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the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
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Yes, that Patinkin guy is one heckuva vocalist. And I agree about Bernadette Peters: she's an ageless wonder. :)

That brings me to another diva of musicals I love: Kim Criswell. I had never heard of her, nor had ever listened in full to a Cole Porter work, until I heard John McGlinn's recording of Anything Goes with the London Symphony Orchestra featuring Criswell. I was blown away by her powerhouse voice, and by the enthusiastic performances of everyone else involved. This was a great recording that I fell immediately in love with. An instant classic. 8)
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phew...that's high praise. i've never heard of her either but if you've got it on your computer, send me a sample! :biggrin:
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio


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:lol: Hey, I'm supposed to be the ignoramus here! Kinda surprised you haven't heard her, Luci. Criswell seems to have had a busy career in American musical theatre over the past two decades, though I admit I've never actively followed her recordings since Anything Goes.

Wish I could send you a sample, but I don't have the CD on me. I copied the CD onto cassette some 15 years ago. Remember those quaint things? I can still listen to it on my old Walkman, but I don't have a tape deck anymore, so I can't output the cassette audio to my computer. Of course, you could always wait while I go browse local pawnshops for a good, used tape deck...but you could've bought the CD online and had it delivered to you by the time I got all that mess straightened out.:biggrin:
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:lol: ok! hahaha!!! i'll look for it!! thanks MM.
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i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio


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Speaking of Cole Porter...last week the PBS program American Masters aired an episode about him. Interesting fellow. He presented himself as an everyman, though he came from a privileged background, and arrived on the scene "just at the right time" for his exuberant songs to define a certain kind of post-Depression optimism in America. He was deemed remarkable as the one great songsmith who wasn't a Jew. :lol:

For his time, Porter was also remarkable as an artist who wrote his own music and lyrics. I think his songs are fabulous. The glamourous Astaire-Rogers musicals, or even the Hope-Crosby comedies, got a lot of their charm from the Porter songs featured in them. I saw a bunch of them on TV when I was a kid, and I remain fond of them, even if it's all just glitzy artifice. But Hollywood is, after all, the factory of dreams, and the movie musicals of the '30s and '40s represent perhaps the most idealized version of America ever put on film. So, according to your taste, you'll either smile and tap along to to what they have to offer, or you'll think they're meaningless artifacts of a lost and irrelevant age.

As for Anything Goes, I had not seen the version starring the late, great Ethel Merman, but the show played a clip, and I can see why people are touting Kim Criswell as carrying on the spirit of Merman. Criswell's vocal style does evoke Merman.
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My favorite musicals are:
Jesus Christ Superstar (head and shoulders over the rest!)
Sweeney Todd (next tier down, also head and shoulders over the rest!)
West Side Story
The Man of La Mancha
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Heh...I had no idea this thread existed till now.
Did I mention before anywhere that I've done theater since the late 1970's? I've done almost all the ones mentioned in the thread at some point.
The most impressive the lead in "Hair" for most of a year and a couple hundred performances in L.A. during its 20th anniversary year.
But, although I'll do almost any, I'm picky about what I really like.
Hardly any Rogers/Hammerstein, or Gilbert/Sullivan, or such.
JC Superstar is great, Evita ok, the rest meh.
Assassins is great.
Hair is great.
West Side is great.
Godspell--about 1/2 the songs are really good, the rest meh.
The rest vary from fun to crap.
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