Joseph- Page 2

[clarky]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 11:33am

do you mean lower the songs even more? I think it is just perfect. Because, when they do stunt casting, it still sounds nice even with a none singer (like the broadway revival one). When you have a real singer (like Sam Harris or Donny Osmond)you can spice it up a little by adding some high notes..

[lostwallflower]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 11:55am

When I did Joseph a few years ago we split the Narrator in two (It was a kids production so part of it was range and part was just making us happy.)

Posted: 12/13/04 at 12:13pm

I did Joseph twice, once in concert and once full blown production. It's a blast, pure and simple.

[cturtle]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 12:18pm

in the original work, there was no part of NARRATOR, and all that music was sung by a chorus, which sounded GREAT.

[BroadwayBaby21]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 2:44pm

Congrats!

I just did Joseph this summer for a community production as a wife, and I had a BLAST! True, the songs DID get on my nerves after awhile, but that happens with every show.
Mythus- OMG the megamix dance... totally exhausting... but SO much fun! :)

[AnothaPartofMe]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 2:50pm

I did JOSEPH... and my Narrator couldn't sing most of the score the way it was written (The original Bill Hutton/Laurie Beechman key), so we had to drop most of the score down three steps (saving the opening "Any Dream Will Do", "Close Every Door", "Grovel, Grovel", "Who's the Thief?", and the "Any Dream... Finale"). I think when you take the key for JOSEPH down, it transforms the score to a very different mood, darker and almost contorted. The part of Joseph is written as a tenor because the character is young, light and buoyant, not a gruff and older man. I disagree with the changing of key in general, but especially when it affects the show itself. Andrew Lloyd Weber wrote in the keys he did intentionally.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 3:06pm

"Andrew Lloyd Weber wrote in the keys he did intentionally."


yep. changing keys of musical passages after ripping them off from his other shows is way too much work between counting his money and jingling his change.

[AnothaPartofMe]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 3:19pm

Even so, they're in the keys they're in for a reason.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 3:20pm

and your point is??????? Keys are changed ALL the time.

[jczelyph]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 6:29pm

well, Joseph probably wasn't ripped off from ALW's other works because it was the first thing he wrote.

Posted: 12/13/04 at 6:56pm

Thanks everybody! I'm really ready to start on it.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 8:55pm

I am sick of hearing about ALW taking songs from other people or himself and adding them to his musicals. Almost everyone does that. If you listen to the end of "If I Love You" from Carousel, it is the same as the end of "Dis Flower" from Carmen Jones (Actually it comes from Bizet's Carmen but I don't know the title of the song from the Opera). People bash on Webber because it is the quote, unquote "cool thing to do." I say Pistosh. Leave the man alone.

Updated On: 12/13/04 at 08:55 PM

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 12/13/04 at 8:58pm

I have heard a little bit of Superstar in "Jacob in Egypt."

[Necromancer07707]

Posted: 12/14/04 at 4:35pm

Can't forget "Cats" in the opening