Advice to Frank Wildhorn

Get a meeting with Tim Burton, preferably next week, and make an announcement (a year from now) that SVENGALI will be made into a Hollywood motion assignment. I would LOVE to see this filmed. Not the others though. Svengali is the best thing Frank wrote, and the most cohesive and well-structured.

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I have advice for Frank Wildhorn, too:

Stop polluting Broadway stages with your music. Your talent would be better focused on radio jingles.

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Another point of view some agree with & many do not . I would like to ask those who continually carp about how bad his music is: Have you ever written anything ? If not, how can you stand in judgment over something you no nothing about ? If you do not care for it , fine. To say he should stay off Broadway to suit your whims are a bit selfish.

Try writing a song & see how hard it is before you complain

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Updated On: 10/16/04 at 10:33 AM

Yes, I have written music. I'm not going to brag, though.

It takes a special talent to capture "the Broadway Sound". Wildhorn doesn't have it. His music is strictly for jingles or "bubble gum pop"

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There are some Wildhorn songs I like, some I don't. And for some reason there are a few songs from DRACULA (a show I really did not care for) that are growing on me the more I hear them.

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Another opinion I agree with. I think in Dracula he tried to please the critics ( waste of time) & it showed. Some songs such as the ensemble numbers didn't cut it. We want power ballads. By the way, & correct me if I am wrong , isn't "You Will Never Walk Alone" a power ballad. Which is worse : A song opening the Olympics or one closing a telethon ?

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Memo to Frank Wildhorn:

Get out of show business.

Lose the damn baseball cap and grow up.

Updated On: 10/16/04 at 11:12 AM

Looks like the hatred is not confined to politics & the off topic board. If some one does not like your music, you should stop writing it. Sounds like a very sound position but this is a free country

Oh well

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Yes, only talentless people like Whitney Houston, Sammy Davis Jr. Liza Minelli etc. etc sing this crap! And of course those loser Olympic skaters Christy Yama-whatever and Katerina Vitt(Witt) must have been paid off to skate to "Gold". Imagine a song like "Gold" in the Olympic Games.

Furthermore Frank, who give you the right to mount three shows that even appeared on Broadway..not to mention some still continue to tour. Some nerve.

By all means, call Sondheim and learn a thing or too. Better yet call some of the famous people on this board to learn what quality work is all about. And, get a wig!... but keep the teeth, that charming smile and soft voice.

THERE... now I feel better. You guys really know this business. I think I will let Frank know it's time to ask the theater chat board experts. LOL!

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Updated On: 10/17/04 at 01:35 PM

Alright, back on topic:
Mr. Wildhorn, you seem to be afflicted with a problem that SOOO many modern composers have. You don't know who to get to write the librettos/books for your musicals. You have written some damn fine enchanting tunes that indeed I love. You've also written some ****. Focus on the lyrics. Focus on the story. Let them be your guide to how the music should sound. Remember, in the end, it is ALWAYS about telling a good story.

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Absolutely not! No one minds constructive criticism. AND I'm the first to agree that Frank's "cakes are missing some ingredients" on most of his projects. But flatly rejecting his music as crap is a matter of personal opinion...certaintly not based on fact or history in the industry.

It's the opinionated flying poop that make's this place an arena for fools at times. DUCK!

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Because when I think of compatible I think of songs suited for Whitney Houston and ... Tim Burton.

Maybe Barry Manilow and Terry Gilliam should go to lunch too.

My, oh my, doesn't PatiB get testy when she's defending one of her "theater pals"? One would think that Frank W. has joined Pati on Philadelphia's c0cktail circuit. Hmmmm....maybe that's why Linda left him.

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