Aspects of Love- Page 3

[chernjam]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 1:59am

jo said: "If there is no present interest in a revival of a  pared down production, I have wondered why there has been no interest in a concert staging.  The musical score is lovely and has a number of song standouts. Even George has his musical musings in that lovely song OTHER PLEASURES!

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Jo - I have a feeling that a revival will materialize at some point it really is just a matter of timing all the right ingredients together at the right time.  For example, there was the mini-revival of Sunset with the actors performing the acting, singing and instruments at the same time in the West End that really didn't go anywhere (and which I worried at the time might damage this shows future by having two "unsuccessful" runs)  Enter the ENO, Lonnie Price, Glenn Close and Sunset is enjoying a renaissance.  I kind of think the same will happen at some point with Aspects.  You have to find the producer who is passionate about the piece and wants to do it and goes all in.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 4/24/17 at 9:05am

Aspects of Love can be accurately compared (as I think it often is in this thread) to a soap opera. As the inimitable George Carlin once put it, "everybody's ****ing somebody," and it all turns into a horrific psycho-sexual mess, involving some borderline (in one case directly) incestuous twists and turns.

Now, if somebody wanted this to work better than it did, I think it would need a larger scale revision. More specifically, since one of the most criticized elements is the recitative, one could go back and -- between the recitative and the source novella -- construct an actual book to replace everything that isn't one of the main musical numbers.

However, that wouldn't change the show's main problem: soap operas do plots like this and manage to make them entertaining. Be it novel or musical, Aspects of Love is boring, and replacing the recitative with an actual book won't change that.