Musicals on wars- Page 3

[PattiLover]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 10:55pm

If anyone can get their hands on a recording of JOHNNY JOHNSON, please do so. It's Kurt Weill's forgotten gem. The music is stunning.

It's been mentioned, but it takes place during WW1. Its title was inspired by the fact the name appeared on United States casualty rolls more often than any other.

I wish Encores would bring it back. It's a great show for today's America. It's very, very anti-war.

[PattiLover]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 10:57pm

If anyone can get their hands on a recording of JOHNNY JOHNSON, please do so. It's Kurt Weill's forgotten gem. The music is stunning.

It's been mentioned, but it takes place during WW1. The name "Johnny Johnson" appeared on more US casualty roles than any other name.

I wish Encores would bring it back. It's a great show for today's America. It's very, very anti-war.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 10:57pm

Wow, I never saw that I was responded to. Touche, Evita doesn't really cover WWII.

I wonder if we could throw in Aida, since it's sort of about the wars between Nubia and Egypt?

[PattiLover]

Posted: 11/29/08 at 10:58pm

If anyone can get their hands on a recording of JOHNNY JOHNSON, please do so. It's Kurt Weill's forgotten gem. The music is stunning.

It's been mentioned, but it takes place during WW1. The name "Johnny Johnson" appeared on more US casualty roles than any other name.

I wish Encores would bring it back. It's a great show for today's America. It's very, very anti-war.

[Jon]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 12:24pm

I have a recording of Johnny Johnson on LP. With a very young Burgess Meredith singing the title role.

[sydney23]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 1:15pm

>>and now we can finally add A Tale of Two Cities :) <<

I don't think that was a show/musical :)
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[Scripps2]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 6:37pm

And the Masada/Warsaw Ghetto musical that Musicalkid refers to has just opened in London under the title Imagine This to considerable controversy.

[jagfkb]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 6:58pm

Bye Bye Birdie? Camelot? Were these mentioned?

[alliez92092]

Posted: 11/30/08 at 7:03pm

You can even add White Christmas.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 3:05am

Camelot was mentioned. I think Bye Bye Birdie is stretching it a lot. The guy's going in the army but there's no war and there's not much content about the army or war.

The Johnny Johnson recording with Burgess Meredith and Lenya was issued on CD but has long been out of print. Someone's selling it on amazon for $14.99, not a bad price.

In 1997, a new recording was made that contained every note in the score and some cut material. The cast is all classical singers who don't really understand how to perform the material, but it's still worth having for the modern sound, good orchestral playing and conducting, and completeness. Unforatunately, it's also out of print.

[Mamie]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 9:20am

If you ever have the opportunity to see Letters From Nam, do so. It has some really beautiful music and the story is based on a group of young men who served together in Viet Nam and the letters they wrote home to their friends and family.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 11:13am

Billy Bishop Goes to War is about WWI. There is music in it but not so much to be thought a musical.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/1/08 at 11:29am

Parade begins during the Civil War with a Confederate Soldier about to leave for battle and saying goodbye to his Lila. The action fast forwards fifty years and we see an older actor playing that same Confederate Soldier only fifty years older and missing his left leg (or is it his right?). Basically, one of the underlying themes of the show is that the South is still healing from the wounds of the Civil War.

The Life and Caroline or Change both have references to Vietnam. Caroline's oldest son is stationed in Vietnam and Queen's lover/pimp, Fleetwood is a Vietnam vet going through flashbacks and addicted to cocaine and they talk about how he hocked his Purple Heart and Fleet tells one guy, "I didn't see you in the jungle." So these shows aren't necessarily about war but war is certainly a theme.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 8:05pm

Btw, I just noticed that the 1950s Johnny Johnson recording is available from arkivmusic:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp;jsessionid=708C4AB586C241D702B59B757BDE04E0?album_id=147294

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 10:28pm

The recently shuttered London show Marguerite
King Of Hearts

Updated On: 12/2/08 at 10:28 PM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/2/08 at 10:29pm

double post

Updated On: 12/2/08 at 10:29 PM