Look homeward angel musical
Look homeward angel musical
Look homeward angel musical#1
Posted: 9/9/12 at 3:07pmIve always been intreasted on why this musical was such a huge flop, i own the sheet music to the song "fatty" and sing it quite often and it brings down the house with laugther! did anyone see the show??
Look homeward angel musical#2
Posted: 9/9/12 at 3:10pmI didn't see it, but remember that there is a fair bit of information in Ken Mandelbaum's book,"Not Since Carrie". If you're interested in flops at all, it's a great read.
Look homeward angel musical#2
Posted: 9/9/12 at 7:15pm
Actually saw it and don't remember much about it. It was kind of dull if memory serves and didn't improve on Look Homeward Angel.
Many flops have one or two great songs so I'm no surprised you found one that
brings down your house
I remember it taking place in a house, Frances Sternhagen was the lead and I never miss a Francis Sternhagen musical. Think this was her only one but correct me if I'm wrong.
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Look homeward angel musical#3
Posted: 9/9/12 at 8:00pm
It flopped because Adam Guettel didn't write it,
would have been right up his alley.
Look homeward angel musical#4
Posted: 9/10/12 at 11:05am
It was a lazy adaptation, taking the prize-winning play and just chopping parts out to make room for songs, some of which are very nice, but none of which are top notch.
The huge set dwarfed the actors, and the intimacy of the story was lost completely in the Minskoff.
Look homeward angel musical#5
Posted: 9/10/12 at 3:26pm
A cast album was privately made and sold though the producer's office. I recently obtained a CD transfer of the Lp. I wasn't terribly impressed by what I heard - but to be honest I never warmed to any of the Geld-Udell scores (PURLIE, SHENANDOAH.) I will give the song you listed anther listen.
Ken Mandelbaum suggests that the Minskoff theatre was far too large a theatre for such an intimate show, which was probably true. It's also a strange choice as a source play for a musical.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
Look homeward angel musical#6
Posted: 9/10/12 at 3:30pm
I love this score. More so than Purlie or Shenandoah infact.
I'd love to know more about the show and/or the play as I do struggle to work out the plot line and characters from that totally anonymous recording that gives no details away on the packaging.
Look homeward angel musical#7
Posted: 9/10/12 at 3:39pm
I have a rare copy of the vocal selections and they are a blast to play on the piano.
But I know nothing else about the show (other than it's source material). The score certainly sounds fun (again, only based on the sheet music) with its ragtime flavor, but how many shows have great scores and still end up being dreadful?
Look homeward angel musical#8
Posted: 9/10/12 at 3:47pm
It's a musical of "Look Homeward, Angel," a synopsis of that should be easy to find; the play is a summary of the novel, and the musical follows the play like a religion. Character driven - lower-middle class family in early 20th-century North Carolina; Mom's a penny pincher who runs the family boarding house, Dad's a drunk tombstone carver. Two "artistic" sons, both having affairs with women boarders, both of whom want to escape the stultifying home and become great. Heartache eventually for almost everyone.
Updated On: 9/10/12 at 03:47 PM
Look homeward angel musical#9
Posted: 9/11/12 at 7:25amI saw a community theater production. What I felt was that the score (pretty ragtime and waltzes) did not match the intense tone of the story. The original play is great, but they chopped out some thematic elements to put in musical numbers.
Look homeward angel musical#10
Posted: 9/11/12 at 7:53am
Who's Fred Casely?
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Look homeward angel musical#11
Posted: 9/11/12 at 8:12amMy ex boyfriend
Look homeward angel musical#12
Posted: 9/11/12 at 8:28amWhy'd ya shoot him?
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Look homeward angel musical#13
Posted: 9/11/12 at 9:12amI was leavin'.
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Look homeward angel musical#15
Posted: 9/11/12 at 9:21amLike a madman! Still I said, 'Fred, move along...'
Look homeward angel musical#16
Posted: 9/11/12 at 9:45am
(^ He knew that he was doin' wrong.)
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Look homeward angel musical#18
Posted: 9/11/12 at 9:50amHe came toward me.
Look homeward angel musical#19
Posted: 9/11/12 at 9:59am
With a pistol?!
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Look homeward angel musical#20
Posted: 9/11/12 at 10:29amFrom my bureau!
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Look homeward angel musical#22
Posted: 9/11/12 at 10:38am
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