Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Musicals with bluegrass feel?
aces25
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/13/04
#1Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/8/17 at 4:13pm
Like Bright Star, what musicals have more of a bluegrass feel?
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#3Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/8/17 at 11:31pm
Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge is pretty dope.
#4Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/9/17 at 12:02am
THE DARK OF THE MOON is sometimes called a play rather than a musical per se. But bluegrass music is sung throughout. IMO, it's a beautiful work.
trpguyy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/05
#6Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/9/17 at 3:15am
THE SPITFIRE GRILL and FLOYD COLLINS both have bluegrass influences, although they are not bluegrass scores on the whole per se.
Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated
#7Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/9/17 at 8:32am
Robber Bridegroom came right to mind for me.
#9Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/9/17 at 9:44pm
poisonivy2 said: "Painted Wagon? Come From Away?
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Uh, no. Sorry. PAINT YOUR WAGON is as much bluegrass as OKLAHOMA!
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PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES has some numbers that border on bluegrass, but on the whole I think you'd call it "country", not bluegrass.
thirtythirtyninety
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
JennH
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#11Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/10/17 at 10:34am
poisonivy2 said: "Painted Wagon? Come From Away?
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No, absolutely neither of these. I'm not entirely sure what I might call PYW but it's for sure not bluegrass and CFA is modern Celtic rock.
bwayandstuff
Stand-by Joined: 5/5/16
#12Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/10/17 at 10:36am
I would also say Come From Away. Maybe Hadestown? Not sure if that would be classified as bluegrass...
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#13Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/10/17 at 2:57pm
I'm not making any claims to the authenticity of any arguable bluegrass feeling in either score, but GRASS HARP? ANGEL?
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#16Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/10/17 at 4:22pm
VIOLET also some bluegrass feel so it. Also Song Bird, but unfortunately that was never recorded.
The Ballad of Little Jo's production in New Jersey with Teal Wicks was just recorded and should be released soon-ish. That a similar style of music too.
#17Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/10/17 at 4:27pm
Smoke on the Mountain
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
HiredMan
Swing Joined: 7/7/17
#19Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/10/17 at 11:13pm
henrikegerman said: "I'm not making any claims to the authenticity of any arguable bluegrass feeling in either score, but GRASS HARP? ANGEL?
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I don't know the score to ANGEL, henrik, but THE GRASS HARP is really standard Broadway with the occasional "C&W" inflection. (An argument might be made over the speaking in tongues section; I'm not sure what you'd call it, but to my ear it's just a Broadway interpretation of the phenomenon.)
#20Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/10/17 at 11:15pm
JennH said: "...I'm not entirely sure what I might call PYW but it's for sure not bluegrass and CFA is modern Celtic rock.
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PAINT YOUR WAGON is Broadway or "Great American Songbook" or "Tin Pan Alley" style with a few "C&W" inflections. I'd wager its hits appeared on the regular Billboard charts.
#21Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/10/17 at 11:18pm
bwayandstuff said: "I would also say Come From Away. Maybe Hadestown? Not sure if that would be classified as bluegrass...
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With respect, I think you're mixing "blues" and "bluegrass". The latter is "white" music, usually stemming from the Scotch-Irish in the Appalachian Mountains. The blues were originally "black" music from New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta. Obviously, all these styles are mixed today, but to my ear anyway, HADESTOWN wants to be a blues musical.
As someone said above, COME FROM AWAY is contemporary Celtic rock.
#22Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/10/17 at 11:23pm
henrikegerman said: "The Ballad of Booth ASSASSINS
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:rolls eyes affectionately:
You New Yorkers and your aversion to crossing the Hudson!
I assume you mean the Balladeer/Banjo section and not Booth's actual ballad, the latter ("The Country Is Not What It Was"
being a classic show tune. The banjo part before and after isn't really bluegrass either, but, yes, banjos are often used in Appalachian music.
#23Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/10/17 at 11:54pm
Floyd Collins would be the closest thing I could think of
AmeliaBedelia
Chorus Member Joined: 4/3/17
#24Musicals with bluegrass feel?
Posted: 7/12/17 at 8:30pm
I don't know if you're looking for just Broadway shows, but Spoon River by Soulpepper theater company is solidly bluegrass. It's currently playing off-Broadway, and the Toronto production has a cast recording which can be found on Spotify.
scarlet721
Understudy Joined: 5/6/11
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