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Broadway Fetishes
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#25re: Broadway Fetishes
Posted: 9/29/08 at 5:15pmIt's probably easier for us gents to take care of it on the spot. :)
#26re: Broadway Fetishes
Posted: 9/29/08 at 8:32pm
actors playing the instruments
really high notes
insane harmonies
when several characters are singing different verses (like in Don't Do Sadness from SA, Kiss Me Part II from Sweeney Todd, 96,000 from ITH...I think you get the point)
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
#27re: Broadway Fetishes
Posted: 9/29/08 at 8:36pm
Call me crazy, but I'm kind of getting this vibe that you like Sweeney Todd. 
I'm surprised no one else on here listed key changes. I always feel bizarrely emotional whenever I hear a key change, even in "The Song That Goes Like This."
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#30re: Broadway Fetishes
Posted: 9/30/08 at 12:15am
Call me crazy, but I'm kind of getting this vibe that you like Sweeney Todd.
haha, you caught me. What can I say? It's the perfect musical (to me). I'm in love with it. Too bad I disliked the film :/
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
Mekroth
Broadway Star Joined: 2/23/08
#32re: Broadway Fetishes
Posted: 9/30/08 at 12:36am
This is totally my first post, how exciting.
So, for moi, any show with an ensemble cast i.e. lots of principal characters, when it's hard to pick who the real leads are. Rent, In The Heights, etc. Even Company, though obviously it's all about Bobby, it still has that ensemble feel.
Kat
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