Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
soulman83
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
#0Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Posted: 7/25/06 at 9:20pmIts seriously one of my favorite shows and some great broadways performers do an amazing job with it. Brian D'arcy James steals the show with his song "And the Rain keeps falling down". Anyway, is ther anyway to get the score or some of the music? it would be amazing to have. There isnt a vocal selections, right?
soulman83
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magic8ball
Broadway Star Joined: 3/28/04
#2re: Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Posted: 7/26/06 at 2:52am
There are no vocal selections, and the score isn't even available at the Lincoln Center library. The only way I can think of getting the music is to contact someone you know who attends a musical theatre school... most have extensive libraries comprised of music that has been "donated" by artists in residence. Something like AMDA, CCM, Julliard, CMU, NYU, etc. I'm sure that they'd have it there or that someone at the school would be able to get it easily.
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Updated On: 7/26/06 at 02:52 AM
#3re: Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Posted: 7/26/06 at 12:38pmJust as an FYI, my church has plans to present it as a one-night fundraiser for our AIDS Crisis Fund on December 01.
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TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#4re: Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Posted: 7/26/06 at 12:42pmI'd sign a petition to get this material published and/or licensable. Great great great score. Used to love the selection from it that the Flirtations did in concert....
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Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#5re: Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Posted: 8/6/06 at 11:58pm
I absolutely adore this music. The monologues are amazing too. "Fa_bu_lous"
It's strange, cause I know Samuel French has the Libretto you can publish. And I've seen "Angels Punks and Raging Queens" and "My Brother Lived in San Fransisco" in different vocal books.
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#6re: Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Posted: 8/7/06 at 2:28amI know it really is a shame. I just shows how many shows are out there that seem to just get ignored. It's a shame because there is some great art out there that is hard to expose yourself to with the way things are going right now. At any rate, thanks for the help. I have a friend who's a voice major at the CMU summer session and I think she's still there. I'll ask her. thanks!
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#7re: Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Posted: 8/7/06 at 2:44am
That's all I can think of, too: colleges and voice teachers at the colleges. That's how I got the music to "And the Rain..." I know that my voice teacher personally knows the composer and even got her to play in the pit of a show I was in. I hope some, or rather some more, of the music is published soon.
~Steven
Pinky
Broadway Star Joined: 3/31/04
#8re: Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Posted: 8/7/06 at 4:56amI saw a few songs (Celebrate, My Brother Lives in SF, & Learning to Let Go) in The Contemporary Singing Actor books. I haven't seen a book with all the songs (especially And the Rain Falls).
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camp_actor
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/04
#9re: Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Posted: 8/7/06 at 6:23amIt's such a great show. And really popular. I'm confused as to why a vocal selections hasn't appeared yet! Updated On: 8/7/06 at 06:23 AM
camp_actor
Featured Actor Joined: 1/5/04
#10re: Elegies: for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Posted: 8/7/06 at 6:29amTheatreDude15, the thing is, it's just weird. Because the show has not been ignored. There's hundreds of productions of it going on...ALL THE TIME. And it's very very popular. It's known by most people who know anything about musicals, and it has a number of cast recordings. So it just seems WEIRD that they haven't released a vocal selections. Surely they could and put some of the proceeds to an AIDS charity and they would sell like hot cakes.
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