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#26

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/3/05 at 10:52pm

I love that song. I was stuck between that and Maybe This Time for my Callback audition. I wound up going back to my first song, whih was Streetsinger from BKLYN.

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#27

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/3/05 at 11:00pm

Call back for what? They have sheet music for "Streetsinger"? If you have the range to do that, don't do a song like "I Don't Care Much," which is better for a male.

-Vincent

#28

I think it was originally written for a prostitute (the Frau Kost character I assume) but in a Hal Prince book he mentions before he added it to the 87 revival (which also added some gay stuff for Cliff, Don't Go instead of Why Should I Wake Up and combined the movie and stage Money songs) it was almost in the original production as a song for Fraulein... Umm the main older lady--Lotte Lenya's character (i'm blanking on the name)

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#29

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/4/05 at 6:52am

Frau Schneider

#30

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/4/05 at 7:16am

It makes more sense for Schneider to sing it than Kost: why would Kost sing a wistful ballad late in the show when she has little bearing on the story at that point and is basically comic relief anyhow? But I did see a production back in the '60s where Sally sang it in the flat after Cliff slapped her and walked out and it worked very well.

#31

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/4/05 at 10:30am

I never thought of it that way; with Sally or Kost singing it. That does work, and I'd actually be interested to see a production with those sorts of changes. I suppose that with the most recent revival, as the Emcee became even more of a narrative presence than he'd been in the past, it made sense for him to sing this song as a comment to everything he saw going on around him.

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#32

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/4/05 at 10:40am

Rethink 'Stars'. Not only is it used a lot, but to ask those auditioning you to see you 50 years from now is a huge task. Don't pressure them with that.

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

#33

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/4/05 at 10:59am

Just a friendly, yet solomn *bump* for my finger nails are green and the show closed today.

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#34

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/5/05 at 4:13am

Actually as much as I love the revival--i think having the Emcee sing it in some ways ruins the original character of the Emcee who literally *doesn't care much*--he has no real human presence.

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#35

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/5/05 at 11:12am

Eric-Joel Grey once said that he thought the original Emcee was Hitler.

The director of the revival wanted to make the Emcee the product of Hitler's actions. That is why at the end of the show The emcee appears with a pink triangle(sign of sexuality) and a yellow star(sign of Judiasm)

David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

#36

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/5/05 at 8:30pm

Ya aand I found that powerful but I agree the original view was quite diff (tho Hal Prince did give the song to the Emcee for his 87 revival which he claims is how he always wanted to stage it so...)

#37

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/5/05 at 8:33pm

Yes, but it's not like they kept the character the same and then just tossed him the song. The original Emcee, like jacob said represented Hitler himself, whereas as he developed in '87, and that development continued onto '98, he became a representation of what Hitler would destroy. He's much more of a narrative presence, almost a person with no identity at all.... just an observer, and totally ephemeral. In that sense, maybe he really wouldn't care much.

... just my two cents.

A work of art is an invitation to love.

#38

re: I Don't Care Much

Posted: 1/5/05 at 8:39pm

I know they changed him for the Mendes--but from what Hal has said about the 87 his role wasn't changed much (except giving him star billing--somethign critics hated)

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