>>This could quite possibly have been intentional but... The words "Couldn't be happier" from Wicked sound just like "Follow the yellow brick" from Wizard of OZ. <<
I'm a little freaked out I never noticed this before...
>>This could quite possibly have been intentional but... The words "Couldn't be happier" from Wicked sound just like "Follow the yellow brick" from Wizard of OZ.
It was intentiol, as was the allusion to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the recurring "Unlimited" motif.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
Thuy and Kim's first confrontation after Dju Vui Vai in Miss Saigon echoes the "Look Down" motif from Les Miserables. It's most obvious on the London recording.
SWEET CHARITY's "There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This" is a virtual, perhaps knowing/honoring re-write of WEST SIDE STORY's "America"
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Here's another one from Miss Saigon. My old band director pointed it out to us (as a rip-off) when we played a Miss Saigon medley, and I couldn't believe I never noticed it before:
In "The Heat is on in Saigon" (etc), the phrase "the heat is on in Saigon" and all similar melody lines sound just like the phrase "That ain't no way to have fun, son" from 3 Dog Night's "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (except for the "son" part). Now I can't think of that song without hearing the other one in my head!
NCGUY I noticed the BATMAN/JCS similarity. I've also thought that "The Worst Pies in London" (SWEENEY TODD) sounds very much like "Tomorrow" (ANNIE).
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
to me, whenever i listen to Dance of the Robe (Aida) and when it comes to the part when the slaves are singing, "Aida," I always think of when the Argentinians are singing, "Evita!" hehehe
JRB definitely has is own style. When I listened to Parade for the first time I actually laughed during the Funeral sequence because the piano does a riff that is EXACTLY like other piano riffs in The Last 5 Years.
And Top of the Tree from Me and My Girl is almost EXACTLY the same melody as Shy from Once Upon A Mattress.
"There are only a few (contemporary) composers out there who have "found there own voice." Adam Guettel LaChuisa "
Oh, please, that is too hilarious. I've been involved with countless readings of new musicals by unknowns over the last two decades. They are all the same and Guettel and LaChiusa sound like every last one of them: churning, pretentious, and melodically bereft with nary an emotional payoff in sight.
The beginning of "As Long As You're Mine" from Wicked reminds me of SOMETHING, but I can't think of what it is! 'Tis driving me crazy. Can anyone help?
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ I remember days Or at least I try But as years go by They're sort of haze And the bluest ink Isn't really sky And at times I think I would gladly die For a day of sky ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ "You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~