wicked1492, yowza's you are easy to offend. My comments didn't pertain your CHOIR knowing what shows these songs are from, but your audience, who I assume is a lot of parents and residents, no? I live in Bumbutt, North Carolina (Greensboro, a city with a theatre community, too.) and outside of our theatre community, the audiences that come to even the professional theatre productions here would generally have no clue as well. So don't get your tits in a twist, you know it's true! If you think otherwise, poll your audience. Ask even ten audience members who you would call "visitors" to your show what "I'm Alive" is from. I bet you 9 out of 10 don't know.
As for shows such as ZOMBIE PROM, STARMITES and the like -- those shows have been in existence for quite some time. They've had time to build a name for themselves in the theatre market -- even if they are more rarely produced than the OKLAHOMA's. NEXT TO NORMAL and CURTAINS are "fresh."
So KUDOS for exposing Bumbutt, Ohio to these "fresh" tunes and raising awareness of the shows, but I stand by my statement. Who the heck in Bumbutt, Ohio is going to know what shows these songs are from?? (Again, prove me wrong.)
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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