Favorite Jerry Herman?- Page 3

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:24pm

Still you're a sweet little thing in your pajamas.

Me, PG2, and some friends (I'm the one in pink):

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:25pm

I remember that night. Joanne got SOOOO wasted (the one in yellow).

[Dollypop]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:26pm

PG's the one in the middle.

Gotta go. My Eric's new TV show is on. Trust me, it's good!

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:27pm

Just for reference, Dolly was around 81 when that picture was taken.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:28pm

PG, it looks like Joanne's trying to put the moves on you!

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:29pm

I told you she was wasted. She threw up on me right after that picture was taken, and then she took another swig of cooking sherry and asked who wanted to dance.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:30pm

It's from listening to all that racy music. I TOLD you my parents wouldn't approve of the Wiggles.

And I thought it wasn't just milk that Vince (the one in orange) slipped into Joanne's bottle. Always had a bit of a shifty look about him.

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:31pm

I never have been able to settle on a favorite Jerry Herman score, and I don't think I ever will. I love them all!

If I had to choose his top three though, they'd be:
(In no particular order)
Mame, Mack and Mabel, and The Grand Tour/La Cage Aux Folles.

I cheated a little bit, but it's too hard to choose. La Cage and The Grand Tour are both so elegant and beautiful. All of his scores are, really.

[Scripps2]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 1:51pm

I'm bumping this because I got to see The Grand Tour last month when it had its European premier at a fringe theatre in London.

I think the show's problem is simply that it doesn't know whether to treat WWII as being a dangerous and stressful time for those involved or jolly good fun. It is possible to get away with the latter as several television sitcoms have done but the book alternated between the two and this did not sit comfortably with Mr Herman's wonderful score.

Having said that I don't think the book is anywhere near as bad as Mack and Mabel's, which will have hopefully received further improving revisions by the time it reaches Chichester this Summer.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 1:57pm

La Cage Aux Folles

[Fantod]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 3:39pm

Mame, Dear World, Hello, Dolly!

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 4:32pm

My favorite score is hands down DEAR WORLD. Though the show itself sounds like a mess (never actually seen it).

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 5:08pm

Like nearly every show ever written, there are things I love and things I loathe in each Jerry Herman score.

His calliope-based ballads that shift from minor to major (SHALOM, RIBBONS DOWN MY BACK, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW, TIME HEALS EVERYTHING, SONG ON THE SAND) are the high points of nearly every show he writes. Those pick-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps numbers are usually my second favorite (MILK AND HONEY, PUT ON YOUR SUNDAY CLOTHES, OPEN A NEW WINDOW, EACH TOMORROW MORNING, TAP YOUR TROUBLES AWAY).

But then comes along those out-and-out clunkers (WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS, DEAR WORLD, LOOK OVER THERE) that just derail the show a bit for me.

The one score I can listen to with all favorites and no derailments is also the show I'd always welcome back on Broadway the most--HELLO DOLLY. A perfect creation.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 5:15pm

Red Bandana.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 9:22pm

Without naming a particular show, I have an old Greatest Broadway CD set from years ago. I line up the three production numbers "Hello, Dolly," "Mame," and "The Best of Times" and each is better than the next, or they are all wonderful.

Listening to them always elevates my mood.

[Showface]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 9:24pm

I like Hello, Dolly! and Mame, If I had to pick two...frankly, I'm not really familiar with his works. Mame's songs never really interested me (except for "It's Today" and "Bosom Buddies")


Updated On: 3/1/15 at 09:24 PM

[philly03]

Posted: 3/1/15 at 9:28pm

"La Cage" is my favorite as a whole, but "Time Heals Everything" is my favorite song from him/one of my favorites of any composer.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 3/2/15 at 12:12am

"Don't mention garnets or pearls from Manilla./Forget them as fast as you can./Don't speak of ginger or lime or vanilla/Until ya have kissed Marianne."

This lyric from The Grand Tour tickles me because his stab at the interior rhyme - "vanilla/unil ya" - is so cheesy but I just kind of love it anyway, and the way it references "Manilla" earlier. And it's a lovely song. Although I think both Mame and Dolly are extraoridnary scores, I'll go with Mack and Mable as a personal favorite.