Arthur: The Musical

[joeyjoe]

Arthur: The Musical#0

Posted: 6/23/04 at 1:37pm

Does anyone know if this Kopit/Yeston show was ever recorded?

[Matt_G]

re: Arthur: The Musical#1

Posted: 6/23/04 at 1:41pm

You mean Christopher Cross didn't do the score for it???

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[joeyjoe]

re: Arthur: The Musical#2

Posted: 6/23/04 at 1:48pm

nope... i think i would fall asleep in the theater if he had...

[Mr. Tuttle]

re: Arthur: The Musical#3

Posted: 6/23/04 at 1:49pm

Are you talking about the stage version of the movie?

If so..I didn't know that Yeston wrote it! (Is that right?)

I remember reading the reviews from it's Chicago run which were not very kind. They seemed to like Greg Edelman as Arthur(I believe that he met Carlee during this show).

Don't know about a full recording but I know that a song or two were recorded on those "Lost In Boston" CD's.

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[EffieWhite]

re: Arthur: The Musical#4

Posted: 6/23/04 at 2:00pm

Greg met CAROLEE during the Goodspeed run of ARTHUR. I could be wrong but I don't believe that it was written by Maury Yeston.

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[joeyjoe]

re: Arthur: The Musical#5

Posted: 6/23/04 at 2:07pm

nope, i was wrong... it's a Skloff/Kauffman/Crane show... and i have NO idea who they are... although i think they may have written a show called Personals... Updated On: 6/23/04 at 02:07 PM

[magruder]

re: Arthur: The Musical#6

Posted: 6/23/04 at 2:38pm

Two of the creators of Arthur, The Musical (and Personals), David Crane and Marta Kauffman, went on to create a little show on NBC called "Friends".

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Updated On: 6/23/04 at 02:38 PM

[robbiej]

re: Arthur: The Musical#7

Posted: 6/23/04 at 2:45pm

And PERSONALS!

Don't forget PERSONALS, mags!

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[JohnPopa]

re: Arthur: The Musical#8

Posted: 6/23/04 at 2:47pm

PERSONALS very well may be the worst musical ever written.

[MusicMan]

re: Arthur: The Musical#9

Posted: 6/23/04 at 11:27pm

ARTHUR shares pride of place as well.

[Jon]

re: Arthur: The Musical#10

Posted: 6/24/04 at 8:49am

And Skloff wrote the "Friends" theme song!

I saw "Arthur" at the Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre (outside Chicago). One problem with it was that they used much of the movie dialogue verbatim, so I literally heard the people in the row in front of me saying the punchlines to the jokes along with the actors. Also, Arthur's first song sounded like the melody was lifted directly from Bert Bachrach's movie score (the lyrics were "Fun - itn't this fun - isn't fun the best thing to have?").

The creators were very lucky that FRIENDS was a hit, so they didn't have to earn a living writing musicals.

By the way, I like many of the songs from PERSONALS.