ALW writes 6 new songs for WIZARD OF OZ... — Page 3

Best12, "Kansas Mornin'" (with the ' as far as I know) is the melody that would later appear as "I Don't Know How To Love Him". Perhaps you are confusing this with their Eurovision song contest (winning?) song that became "King Herod's Song"? Either way, both those songs appear on the last disc of the ALW Boxset.

The melody for "Jesus Christ Superstar" appears in the "Bring Me My Coloured Coat" sequence at the end of JOSEPH (before the godforsaken megamix), and always has. It is GLARINGLY obvious, at least in the orchestration for the licensed version of the show, but ALW may have toned it down or removed it completely as it is in the accompaniment and not the melody line that the motif appears. It sticks out like a sore thumb, it really does.

My biggest question is: does ALW intend on using a 30s big band style sound or is he going to completely re-orchestrate everything (with Cullen or whoever) to accomidate the more modern sounding material he is adding?

For some reason I think "The Jitterbug", which was excised from the film for fear that it would date it too quickly, will look positively cutting-edge compared to whatever ALW comes up with now to those who look back on it in seventy years. I hope I'm wrong, but I just don't see ALW being able to shed all pop/rock influence - he certainly couldn't and didn't in ASPECTS, despite the overly adorned and perfumed orchestrations's best efforts, and the less said about POTO and its disco title song the better, but SUNSET's score gives me a tiny glimmer of hope for this.

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Updated On: 9/21/09 at 04:30 PM

Help us all...

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Even if the songs were:

1. "It's Such Fun (Sucking Donkey Bollocks)"
2. "Colors In My Poop"
3. "I'm A Lion (And I'm A Poofter Too)"
4. "(Why Is Everyone White) In The Emerald City"
5. "Sex Magic"
6. "Hot For Toto"

Even with THOSE, this version would still be better than the MUNY version.