#1
Posted: 8/5/06 at 1:06am
A few days ago, I had read the thread about Hugh Jackman possibly being in a new movie version of "Carousel," and I thought that as much as I love the show Carousel, I couldn't see any way it could work today as a film. It is too outdated.
But yesterday I was playing a CD from Broadway: the American Musical in my car on the way to work, and the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music, another show by Rodgers and Hammerstein, was playing. Something occured to me while I was listening to it, and that was that though R&H may not prove as popular with audiences today, their show scores sure were terrific. Whereas many of today's shows have nary a tune that stays with you after seeing it, R&H would have three or four great songs that would go on and on. Tonight, I looked up the songs from The Sound of Music and it had "The Sound of Music," "Maria" (as in "How do you solve a problem like..."), "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi," "You Are Sixteen," "So Long, Farewell," and "Climb Every Mountain" -- and that was just in the first act!!!
And look at Carousel's first act: "The Carousel Waltz," "If I Loved You," "June is Bustin' Out All Over," and "Soliloquy," among others. Can you imagine? And "You'll Never Walk Alone" was still to come in the second act. I mean, WOW!
Do you even want me going into the songs from "South Pacific," "Oklahoma," and "The King and I"?
Why can't today's composers come out with more memorable scores?
But yesterday I was playing a CD from Broadway: the American Musical in my car on the way to work, and the song "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music, another show by Rodgers and Hammerstein, was playing. Something occured to me while I was listening to it, and that was that though R&H may not prove as popular with audiences today, their show scores sure were terrific. Whereas many of today's shows have nary a tune that stays with you after seeing it, R&H would have three or four great songs that would go on and on. Tonight, I looked up the songs from The Sound of Music and it had "The Sound of Music," "Maria" (as in "How do you solve a problem like..."), "My Favorite Things," "Do-Re-Mi," "You Are Sixteen," "So Long, Farewell," and "Climb Every Mountain" -- and that was just in the first act!!!
And look at Carousel's first act: "The Carousel Waltz," "If I Loved You," "June is Bustin' Out All Over," and "Soliloquy," among others. Can you imagine? And "You'll Never Walk Alone" was still to come in the second act. I mean, WOW!
Do you even want me going into the songs from "South Pacific," "Oklahoma," and "The King and I"?
Why can't today's composers come out with more memorable scores?
