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Am I the only one that thought they did a great job turning EVITA into a musical picture?
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
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BEST: "The Sound of Music" "West Side Story" WORST: Another vote for "Godspell" "The Wiz" I did like the film of "Evita". I think its the best ALW transfer to film
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The Ava Gardner Showboat is the 1950's inferior production. The 1936 Showboat has Irene Dunne and Helen Morgan, et al. It is indeed far superior (excepting the "galavanting around" blackface number that Irene does in the 1936 version...*shudders*) version of the show.
Helen Morgan singing "Bill" is one of the treasures of cinema.
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BEST: -Sound of Music -Chicago -Evita -The King and I -Guys and Dolls -Jesus Christ Superstar (it grows on you if you watch it more than once) -Grease -Fiddler on the Roof
WORST: -Sweet Charity -Hair -Phantom of the Opera -Cabaret -A Chorus Line -Damn Yankees -West Side Story-for the following reasons: - Switching Gee Officer Krupke and Cool, -adding men to America-because now people think they have to do that in the stage version -The singing-if you are going to dub the voices anyway why dub them in a lower key???? (Tony) -Cutting the Somewhere ballet -Casting actors who are not at all believeable as teenagers (Natalie Wood being the exception)
"1936 Showboat has Irene Dunne and Helen Morgan, et al. It is indeed far superior (excepting the "galavanting around" blackface number that Irene does in the 1936 version...*shudders*)"
Why shudder? This number is very typical of the kind of olio routine that would have been seen on show boats in the 1880s.
Hammerstein always intended the number to reappear at the end of the movie done by Kim and the cast of her play, first as a traditional dance then as a hot jazz number. In teh final editing all the modern section was cut, diluting the point but if you listen you still hear the tune unserscoring the first part of the dance.
The 1936 SHOW BOAT is as close as we will ever get to a document of the original production. Wasn't there supposed to be a boxed DVD set containing all 3 SHOW BOAT films?
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks." Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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"Why shudder? This number is very typical of the kind of olio routine that would have been seen on show boats in the 1880s"
Because it wasn't as socially acceptable in 1936 to show it, even in film (we certainly wouldn't do that today). But I think Cabaret and A Chorus Line are two of the worst. 'Cabaret' hardly resembled the stage show, and save for a few songs purged most of the score as well.