"Oh...DUH!" moments with shows and cast recordings

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 9:57am

I'm totally willing to admit how stupid/oblivious I am. this morning was the first time I really comprehended that Eva's lead in to "A New Argentina" ("It doesn't matter what those morons say"...) is the same melody line as "I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You". I know there are a few other similar instances in Evita, but I'm never able to tell.

also, the other day was the first time I noticed that, during "A Weekend in the Country," when Charlotte tells Carl-Magnus "there's no need to shout," he's been saying her name. ::face palm::

anyone else have any "Oh...DUH!" moments?

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 10:38am

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Ok, so it took until about my fourth listening to Next to Normal to realize that Gabe is dead. I thought dan was lying in "He's Not Here" because I knew Dan and Gabe had a rough relationship.

It took a really long time for me to realize that in "Happy New Year" from Rent, They are breaking back into their building. It wasn't until I heard the line "pan to the padlocked door, new year's rockin' eve, the breaking back into the building party" that wasn't on the cast recording when I found out what they were doing.

And, about repeating themes in Evita, actually, Andrew Lloyd-Webber does that quite frequently. In Joseph, the Prologue and A Pharaoh's Story have the same music, Parts of Joseph's Dreams and Jacob Came to Egypt have the same melody, and, of course, Poor, Poor Pharaoh has the same music and melody as Poor, Poor Joseph.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 11:03am

Please, Andrew Lloyd Webber is the MOST repetitive composer to ever earn a living at it. (Sorry, that's just one of the reasons I don't like his work.)

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 1:45pm

**SPOILERS??**

It wasn't until I saw Wicked live, in April of 04, that I realized it was Joel Grey's voice during the opening song.

I also didn't realize that Peter's Dream at the beginning of bare is foreshadowing.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 1:47pm

I just now learned of the 'marijuanas' in Hare Krishna/Be-in

[Leia947]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 1:51pm

Didn't realize until waaayyyy after, that "Contact" from Rent was all about sex. And the bed sheet was supposed to represent a condom. Right.

I was a sheltered teen.

[Mr.Tenor]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 1:54pm

I just realized about a month ago that in sweeney todd, in Poor Thing, that Sweeney's wife got raped... At least i think they did... right?

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 2:01pm

Mr. Tenor, I have always assumed that. One of mine was during Into The Woods Prologue. I always assumed Jack's father was dead but then his mother says, "You're father isn't back." So I guess we could assume he has went off somewhere.

[winston89]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 2:41pm

My favorite one of these kinds of moments is one that I didn't even notice until I saw saw Seth Rudetsky do one of his breakdowns of The Wizard and I from Wicked. During I think it was April he did either a new deconstruction video every day or a new one ever week. There was one where he was talking about Idina Menzel and of course he mentioned her in Wicked among other shows that she was in.

During The Wizard and I when it gets to the line " unlimited, my future is unlimited." those notes are the same notes as the phrase "Somewhere over the rainbow" in the song of the same name from The Wizard of Oz. The Wicked part of the video starts at 8:40 and ever since that was pointed out to me, I have never been able to hear that part of the song the same ever again.
Seth Rudetsky's deconstruction of Idina Menzel.

[BwayTday]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 3:19pm

I have these all the time, just from repeated listenings.

The one that I remember is when I was watching Aida during "Dance of the Robe" Nehebka says, "Your robe should e golden your robe should be perfect, instead of this ragged concoction of thread..." And I also thought she was talking about what Aida was wearing(which didn't make sense because she was wearing a pretty nice purple dress)but then I realized she was talking about the robe the made...

Thats a total, "OH...DUH" moment

[thejcm]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 4:36pm

I didn't fully comprehend Valjean's line in the finale of Les Miz until yesterday, when he says "Yes Cosette, forbid me now to die. I'll obey, I will try." I guess I never really paid attention to it or really bother to listen, even when I sang it. I never got that he was trying to comfort her and say that if she doesn't want him to go, that he'll try to fight it, haha.

[Jon]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 6:12pm

BroadwayBound02 - there is a theory out there that Jack's father is, in fact, The Mysterious Man. When Jack firsrt meets the MM and mentions his mother, the MM reacts with distaste. When he hears the mother coming, MM runs and hides. MAYBE, after he deserted the Baker and his mother, he hooked up with Jack's mom, and after Jack was born, he deserted her as well. Thus, Jack and the Baker are actually half-brothers.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 9:42pm

Whoever said they didn't understand "Contact" in Rent at first, you aren't alone. I saw the movie, which left out that song, when I was eleven. My sister then dug out the original cast recording my mom bought ages ago, and we put it on our iPods. I really didn't understand "Contact" until my sister said I don't need to listen to it because it's inappropriate, which made me think, "Hmm, what's inappropriate contact--oh, ew, they're doing it."

In Next to Normal, I didn't get the "Didn't I See This Movie" reference to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" because I had never heard of it. I was telling my mom about how awesome that song is, but how I really didn't get it, and she explained the reference. I guess it wasn't an "oh... duh" moment because there's no way I could have known.

I first heard "Legally Blonde" when I was 10, and I didn't get many sexual references besides the obvious bend and snap. The most inappropriate line in "So Much Better" I could understand was suggestive was "... in the hot tub every night". Then came middle school. I listened to that musical less, and one day I decided to listen to it again, maybe a year and a half later. I said, "Wow, this is REALLY suggestive". Although the reason I didn't get it was because in my elementary school's sex ed. program, they teach you about adolescence in fourth and fifth grade, and in fifth grade, they don't explain anything sexual; they give you a booklet and say "read this". Of course, no ten-year-old wants to read a book about that unless they already know everything and find it funny.

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 8/4/09 at 10:03pm

And thank you for making me feel elderly at age 24.

Signed, someone who saw the midnight premiere of RENT during her senior year of college.

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 7:55am

^If you feel elderly at age 24 imagine what I feel like at age 36...LOL.

As for the topic I don't think I have any Oh DUH! moments.

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 8:09am

Jon- No way! I am in a production of Into the Woods (rehearsing) right now. I am so telling Jack and the MM that tonight. HAHA Wow the Baker is related to so many people!

[tommigyrl5]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 8:09am

AwesomeDanny

Do you actually go see shows, or just listen to them?

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 9:57am

"Please, Andrew Lloyd Webber is the MOST repetitive composer to ever earn a living at it. (Sorry, that's just one of the reasons I don't like his work.)"

With Frank Wildhorn at a close second.

[TimesSquareRegular]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 10:13am

In I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE, listen closely to the orchestrations for that moment in "The Sound Of Money" when we get a bar or two of "Do-Re-Me" from The Sound of Music.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 10:22am

Well, that explains a lot about Awesome Danny.

[AwesomeDanny]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 12:59pm

tommigyrl5, I do get to see shows, as my signature says, but not very often, because I have to see shows with my mom and my sister, so it gets a bit more expensive with three people. I usually have to rely on cast albums, movies, and filmings for musicals.

Oh, and dramamama611, I'm not quite sure about your above comment. Do you mean my age explains a lot? It probably does.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 1:02pm

In Next to Normal, I didn't get the "Didn't I See This Movie" reference to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"

Wow...I just now realized that.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 1:06pm

'Do you actually go see shows, or just listen to them?'

AwesomeDanny is still very young and he probably doesn't GET to see shows. I'm lucky that my parents will take me to as many shows that are playing nearby to me as they can, but maybe his parents aren't the same as mine. If he doesn't get to see shows it's probably not because he doesn't want to, it's because he can't.

Updated On: 8/5/09 at 01:06 PM

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 1:10pm

I first heard "Legally Blonde" when I was 10

Oh god.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/5/09 at 1:59pm

For some reason, I never really paid attention to the iTunes wording and thought "Easy to Be Hard" from Hair was called "Easy to Be Heard."