Music meme
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"List 7 songs you are into right now."
Don't really listen to songs as much as I used to, so I can't give you anything new.
(consumer warning - I have progressive hearing loss and don't enjoy music the way I used to. Most of the below accompany visual entertainment.)
I'll give you a gripe: in 1983 The Pirates of Penzance was released in a film version of a Broadway version starring Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, George Rose, Rex Smith, Tony Azito, who all made it into the movie (and some who didn't, but we got Angela Lansbury, who did a great job as Ruth). It came out almost immediately on video tape. It has not come out on DVD. IMDB has a DVD link which takes you to Amazon where you are told it hasn't been released and invites you to sign up to be notified. (I know I have resisted several times, so I don't think they have more than 4 or 5 copies of my email address.) There is a DVD of a film of the Broadway production. The performance is fine; the filming is mediocre. But it is better than nothing. (You still can get it on VHS, I believe. I had it once, and gave another copy. My copy is worn out - don't know how the other is. Tapes have finite lifetimes. I suppose DVDs will, too - haven't got to that point yet.)
Last month, Cinemax showed it once and I got it!
This is a great production. The songs are performed well. The visual action, particularly by Kline and Azito, is very appropriate. Rose is a superb Major General and Smith is a fine Frederick, with a superb voice and great action. The movie format allows closeups which allow the actors full opportunity for mugging that does not come through in the film of the stage performance.
Some of the Pirates songs are omitted - we get no talk about the weather. Ronstadt sings Sorry Her Lot from Pinafore in the stage version, but not in the movie. They adapt Matter, matter, matter from Ruddigore. Both appropriately, IMO.
One of my favorites is When a Foeman Bares His Steel and the subsequent encouragement by Mabel and Edith. Ah, but most of the numbers are well done. Well, they all are, but I like some more than others.
There are more than seven good songs there, but in the spirit of things:
Irish Folk Song - (or several others) by Tom Lehrer (the music is not quite up to Sullivan, but the words of his songs have some of Gilbert's merits :<) )
The finale of Fosse is a choreographed Sing, Sing, Sing. I have seen reviews of the show that went "eh" at that number, but I like the music, the choreography, the energy. I like looking at the dancers, too, but one of my favorite segments is the tap dance to the piano feature.
I like Zefferelli's version of La Traviata. I've heard the party songs, Gypsy and Bullfighter, dissed as for groundlings. I'm a groundling. I like them.
Fantasia is worth revisiting. I have trouble picking a favorite number. The 2d one (EDIT - 2d Fantasia) was nice but not as good.
OK, I'm hard to satiate; I still like Cats
And I was already an old fogey when it first came out, and don't really appreciate audience par-ti-ci-pa------------tion, so I have a copy of Rocky Horror and particularly enjoy the Time Warp as well as several others.
That's enough. You'll have to tag yourself if you want one. I'd like to end with a note of appreciation tocommodorified for her persistent use of quotes from various sources. Some I recognize and smile. Others I have to investigate (OK, I usually ask her or read her response when someone else does). The last instance introduced me to Garnet Rogers, with whom I see I am going to have to get more acquainted.
elfbiter"List 7 songs you are into right now."
Don't really listen to songs as much as I used to, so I can't give you anything new.
(consumer warning - I have progressive hearing loss and don't enjoy music the way I used to. Most of the below accompany visual entertainment.)
I'll give you a gripe: in 1983 The Pirates of Penzance was released in a film version of a Broadway version starring Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, George Rose, Rex Smith, Tony Azito, who all made it into the movie (and some who didn't, but we got Angela Lansbury, who did a great job as Ruth). It came out almost immediately on video tape. It has not come out on DVD. IMDB has a DVD link which takes you to Amazon where you are told it hasn't been released and invites you to sign up to be notified. (I know I have resisted several times, so I don't think they have more than 4 or 5 copies of my email address.) There is a DVD of a film of the Broadway production. The performance is fine; the filming is mediocre. But it is better than nothing. (You still can get it on VHS, I believe. I had it once, and gave another copy. My copy is worn out - don't know how the other is. Tapes have finite lifetimes. I suppose DVDs will, too - haven't got to that point yet.)
Last month, Cinemax showed it once and I got it!
This is a great production. The songs are performed well. The visual action, particularly by Kline and Azito, is very appropriate. Rose is a superb Major General and Smith is a fine Frederick, with a superb voice and great action. The movie format allows closeups which allow the actors full opportunity for mugging that does not come through in the film of the stage performance.
Some of the Pirates songs are omitted - we get no talk about the weather. Ronstadt sings Sorry Her Lot from Pinafore in the stage version, but not in the movie. They adapt Matter, matter, matter from Ruddigore. Both appropriately, IMO.
One of my favorites is When a Foeman Bares His Steel and the subsequent encouragement by Mabel and Edith. Ah, but most of the numbers are well done. Well, they all are, but I like some more than others.
There are more than seven good songs there, but in the spirit of things:
Irish Folk Song - (or several others) by Tom Lehrer (the music is not quite up to Sullivan, but the words of his songs have some of Gilbert's merits :<) )
The finale of Fosse is a choreographed Sing, Sing, Sing. I have seen reviews of the show that went "eh" at that number, but I like the music, the choreography, the energy. I like looking at the dancers, too, but one of my favorite segments is the tap dance to the piano feature.
I like Zefferelli's version of La Traviata. I've heard the party songs, Gypsy and Bullfighter, dissed as for groundlings. I'm a groundling. I like them.
Fantasia is worth revisiting. I have trouble picking a favorite number. The 2d one (EDIT - 2d Fantasia) was nice but not as good.
OK, I'm hard to satiate; I still like Cats
And I was already an old fogey when it first came out, and don't really appreciate audience par-ti-ci-pa------------tion, so I have a copy of Rocky Horror and particularly enjoy the Time Warp as well as several others.
That's enough. You'll have to tag yourself if you want one. I'd like to end with a note of appreciation to
commodorified for her persistent use of quotes from various sources. Some I recognize and smile. Others I have to investigate (OK, I usually ask her or read her response when someone else does). The last instance introduced me to Garnet Rogers, with whom I see I am going to have to get more acquainted.
