"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
To dreamcoat, who claims of "Masculinity" and "Cocktail Counterpoint" in LA CAGE that "both of those numbers are better when staged then listening to them on the cast album, IMO"
I hate to be the grouchy grouch on this thread, but I'm REALLY familiar with the original 1983 staging of those numbers: I worked on the original production, the 1st national tour and the 1st bus and truck, and had to suffer through countless performances of those 2 numbers, each time capped with the tepid applause they would generally receive.
Jerry Herman never really found a good way to musicalize the bigots in that show-- you should have heard his original number for Monsieur Dindon that was cut in Boston that was basically a string of racial epithets set to music. Sheesh!
And honestly- the show is effective without the Dindons having a real musical number (other than "Cocktail Counterpoint"). They don't need a musical voice.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
I have to say SPRING AWAKENING. Though the cast recording is crap, every single song is beautiful, and full of emotion (again, the songs, no the recording).I've seen it live multiple times, and if performed well, I am in tears by the end of Act 1.