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

[muscle23ftl]

Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and viceversa???#0

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?

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[sanda]

re: Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and viceversa???#1

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]

re: Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and viceversa???#2

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"

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[bigrab1018]

re: Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and viceversa???#3

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.

"Billy, put down that phylactery...we're Episcopalian." - Spelling Bee

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

[triplethreat101]

re: Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and viceversa???#4

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

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[sidneybruhl]

re: Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and viceversa???#5

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]

re: Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and viceversa???#6

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

Urinetown was great without knowing the score.

Sondheim is probably better knowing the score.

[Kristen_0509]

re: Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and viceversa???#7

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

Definitely footloose

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us..

[Attendthetale331]

re: Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and vi#8

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.

"Listen to the song that I sing and trust me..."

[TheaterAddict7652]

re: Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and vi#9

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.

There's a lot I am not certain of...

[munkustrap178]

re: Musicals you can only enjoy once you are familiar with the score and vi#10

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

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

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