In My Life Official Site
In My Life Official Site
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
In My Life Official Site#0
Posted: 8/12/05 at 2:10pm
The official site is sort of up and running--it has a sign up page, where you can be informed of news and whatnot
http://www.inmylifethemusical.com
--Dont Forget to check out my IN MY LIFE fansite
http://broadwaybelter.tripod.com
Updated On: 8/12/05 at 02:10 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
re: In My Life Official Site#1
Posted: 8/12/05 at 2:39pmI know NOTHING about this. Are there even demo recordings to hear?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: In My Life Official Site#3
Posted: 8/12/05 at 2:56pm
Link not working...
http://www.inmylifethemusical.com
re: In My Life Official Site#4
Posted: 8/12/05 at 2:56pmI plan on being there for the first preview.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/03
re: In My Life Official Site#5
Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:13pmME TOO Margo... I wouldn't miss this one for the world!!!
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
re: In My Life Official Site#6
Posted: 8/12/05 at 3:46pmlemme know what you think when you go Margo
re: In My Life Official Site#7
Posted: 8/12/05 at 4:45pmI plan on seeing it the 2nd week of November when I am there.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
re: In My Life Official Site#8
Posted: 8/12/05 at 4:57pmI love the poster...broadwaybelter...when does it start rehearsals? cause Bway.com usually does videos of shows in rehearsals.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
re: In My Life Official Site#9
Posted: 8/12/05 at 7:36pmumm...if i'm not mistaken....they begin either this month or early next month...i cant quite remember, it was on the casting notice that i just threw away *slaps himself*
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
re: In My Life Official Site#10
Posted: 8/13/05 at 12:31amBwaybelter, can you post a link to some of these demo's please?
re: In My Life Official Site#11
Posted: 8/13/05 at 1:33am
OK, I went to see "Primo" tonight (which was great) and in the Playbill was a flyer for "In My Life" which said "Be the first to hear IN MY LIFE with a FREE CD Sampler, available in the back of the theatre following the performance." Not sure the connection between an extremely serious one man show about Primo Levi surviving the Nazis at Aushwitz, and a musical about a contemporary relationship between a person with Tourette's Syndrome and one with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but, um....... whatever ................
So I just got home and am playing the three songs now. The CD doesn't mention who the singers are. The title track isn't bad -- a more or less decent middle of the road pop ballad sung by a female singer with a nice voice. Not a great song, but not a bad one.
But then, the next two songs are ..... wow. Easily the most cliched, awkward, embarassingly crafted lyrics I've heard since "BKLYN," paired with two very pallid and generic melodies.
"I Am My Mother's Son" is a country-flavored ballad sung by a male singer that is simply dripping with earnestness and facile sentimentality. I just can't imagine how this song could ever be effective in a book show.
And then the CD ends with "Life Turns On A Dime." Yet ANOTHER syrupy, cliched ballad. The title phrase is invoked throughout and there is an endless assortment of tortured rhymes and awkward phrasing that basically had me sitting her with my jaw dropped, speechless after the first verse. Terrible.
All three songs strike me as third rate Debbie Boone album filler, which might have worked in 1978 or something at the height of her "You Light Up My Life" (which writer/composer/director wrote) fame, but now just sounds like lame, out of touch, pathetic and utterly forgettable Muzak.
This sampler confirmed my worst fears about this show. I'll most certainly be there to see what ends up on the stage at the end of September.
re: In My Life Official Site#13
Posted: 8/13/05 at 2:20am
Alright, the songs.
IN MY LIFE - I wouldn't be surprised if this is recorded by solo artists. It has a very nice rock melody to it...that will definitely get stuck in my head. The lyrics aren't THAT bad, either. It's a little draggy in my places, but it is quite nice. Actually, I did like the song.
I AM MY MOTHER'S SON - Starts off nicely, very country, as Margo said.. (Something I could see myself singing over and over.) Not too bad. I agree, it will be interesting how this Tourette's (or is ithe one with OCD) pulls this song off. I wouldn't imagine a Tourette's patient could finish this song.
LIFE TURNS ON A DIME - "The world is spinning with imperfect rhymes" As is the song. It's like a dictionary of words that rhyme with dime (heh, yeah, they use that rhyme, too!) The song isn't too harsh. Some of the lyrics seem trite.
In all, the music isn't too bad. Rockish, but not too overbearing. But if this is the best the show has to offer...
"Cause tomorrow begins with today"
But I don't see these songs as character songs, more like solo recording songs.
"It's raining flowers from the sky
Don't let this moment pass you by"
I can see someone turn around and say this show touched them.
Then again, people say BKLYN touched them.
And let's not start on all the people Jacko touched.
Updated On: 8/13/05 at 02:20 AM
re: In My Life Official Site#14
Posted: 8/13/05 at 2:31am
*I wanna add, I thought this show was going to be a comedy.
re: In My Life Official Site#15
Posted: 8/13/05 at 12:00pm
Incidentally, the advertising on the sampler and the rest of the show's marketing features images of lemons floating above a green field. Lots of lemons.
Now, perhaps they are some oblique reference to the tired old adage "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" but, if this isn't some in-joke by their marketing people, then it strikes me that they're simply BEGGING to be ridiculed.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
re: In My Life Official Site#16
Posted: 8/13/05 at 12:01pmThernardier, it's beginning to sound like it *will* be a comedy even if the writers/director/cast don't intend it to be.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
re: In My Life Official Site#17
Posted: 8/13/05 at 12:28pm
its intended to be a comedy/drama i believe--i hope it doesnt flop--but i am always a fan of them!
Updated On: 8/13/05 at 12:28 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
re: In My Life Official Site#18
Posted: 8/13/05 at 12:50pm
Can someone put these demo's on SendtheFile.com so some of us can hear em?
That'd be greatly appreciated!
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
re: In My Life Official Site#20
Posted: 8/14/05 at 2:53am
The music doesn't sound like it is supposed to be funny.
Unless, they are supposed to be acting in a comical manner while singing the songs?
BORING songs.
re: In My Life Official Site#21
Posted: 8/14/05 at 7:00pmbtw, to whoever asked the correlation between primo and in my life (sorry, I forgot who) In My Life is going into The Music Box theater.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
re: In My Life Official Site#22
Posted: 8/14/05 at 8:12pmsomeone please PM me, I want to hear these songs so bad. Is it weird that i'm somehow drawn to the poster for "IN MY LIFE." For some reason, I want to see this show so bad? Weird.
re: In My Life Official Site#23
Posted: 8/14/05 at 8:13pm
i want to see this show because it is going to be a huge flop! 
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