Amazing Scores
Amazing Scores
#1Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 1:22am
Does anyone have a show where they LOVE every single song in the score.
For me next to normal does not have one weak song and has one of the strongest scores I've heard. Also, South Pacific.
#2Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 1:40am
There are only 2 scores that when I listen to them I don't want to skip a song:
Gypsy
South Pacific
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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#3Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 1:45am
I was just watching Sister Act on TV and that got me wanting to listen to the cast album. That is what I am listening to as I am typing this and I think that it is a great cast album and a very fun and catchy score. I know that there are people on here who have said that the aren't fans of the two male songs "When I Find My Baby", and "I Could Be That Guy." However, after giving them another listen I like them better than before.
I also think that a great score is one where all the songs that are there have a reason for being there to at least advice the plot. I think that any of the songs that are part of the scores of the musicals that have won the Pulitzer can fit this category.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
starspangledjenny
Chorus Member Joined: 5/24/10
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#6Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 2:02am
Jekyll & HYDE.
or A Tale of Two Cities, depending on my mood!
#7Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 2:16am
The only two musicals I listen to without skipping a song are:
Company
Little Shop of Horrors
Gypsy would also make the list if it weren't for "All I Need is the Girl," which I cannot stand as a song and I feel is sorta useless.
#8Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 2:59am
Caroline or Change
Merrily We Roll Along
Sweeny Todd
Allegro
Caroline or Chnage
Just give the world Love.
#9Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 4:47am
""All I Need is the Girl," which I cannot stand as a song and I feel is sorta useless."
I know this has been talked about before...
But doesn't it kind of set up the backstory for June leaving? And there is kind of a bit of development of Louise's character I guess..
And then it just 'happens' to be a contrasting male voice and cool tap number too.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#11Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:44amNext to Normal and West Side Story.
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rmusic11322
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/07
#13Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 12:20pm
The only one I have never skipped through is The Last Five Years.
I love Company, Sweeney Todd, RENT, Les Mis etc but I skip songs depending on my mood or whatever. But that never happens with L5Y. Not sure why.
#14Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 12:34pmJesus Christ Superstar, Bare, Evita, Next to Normal, West Side Story, Gypsy, Babes in Arms, Last 5 Years, etc.
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Jonny boy
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
#15Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 12:38pmNext to Normal and The Last Session are my 2 favorites....
#16Amazing Scores
Posted: 5/31/10 at 2:27pm
House Of Flowers
The Most Happy Fella
St. Louis Woman
Baby
The Marvin Trilogy
Evita
Whoop Up!
The Human Comedy
With Irma you gotta do something!
