Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and viceversa???

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 2:55pm

i thought "The Woman in White" was just ok when i saw the show for the 1st time, but then you listen to the score and the show was way more enjoyable. Any other examples??? or shows you can enjoy a lot even if you're not familiar with the score?

[sanda]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:08pm

rent. The live music was so loud and noisy I hardly understood any lyrics the first time I saw it.

I knew nothing about "Light in the Piazza" before I saw it and I enjoyed it very much.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:12pm

yes! Rent is another example...if you don't know the lyrics...the show is very hard to follow...i did enjoy the 1st time i saw it though. But i hear all the time from people "i didn't understand anything when i saw Rent"

[bigrab1018]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:12pm

I agree with Rent, but I understood it much more after seeing the movie, not listening to the lyrics.

I enjoyed Caroline, or Change very much, but it wasn't until I read the lyrics that I realized how genius it is.

Updated On: 3/5/06 at 03:12 PM

[triplethreat101]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 3:18pm

when i saw Light in the Piazza i had only heard one song and it was just from my friend caroline singing it to me in physics class. and when i saw it last week i loved it.
i also saw sweeney todd and i had never heard any of the music and i didnt like it very much b.c i didnt really understand it and had no idea what it was about. but i just bought the cd and love it and i wish i had bought the cd b4 i saw the show

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 4:13pm

When I saw "Piazza," I had never even listened to the recording all the way through. Now I can't stop listening to it which furthers my appreciation for this wonderful show! I also think "Passion" is a show that is better appreciated when you are familiar with the score.

[MarkCohen]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 6:54pm

Urinetown was great without knowing the score.

Sondheim is probably better knowing the score.

[Kristen_0509]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 9:20pm

Definitely footloose

[Attendthetale331]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 10:12pm

Once I saw the show, I loved the score to The Light on the Piazza.

Sondheim it helps to know the score but you also need to know the show to understand the score.

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 3/5/06 at 10:43pm

Rent is so hard to follow if you don't know the lyrics. Its so fast paced, when I saw it, I was thinking, "what the f*ck is going on?"

I think that to understand any Sondheim score, you have to know at least what the show is about and what his ideas were composing the score.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 12:50am

Not ONLY enjoy, but PIAZZA helps, as does any Sondheim.