Story of my life music?

[coolkid11776]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:22am

Hi,
Where can I hear some of the music to Story of my life? I might be seeing it next week and have herard none of the music.

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:27am

http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh

[Actor 7]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 7:39pm

Was there a CD created after the Toronto 2006 or the Goodspeed pre-Broadway try-out period? I haven't been able to find anything commercially released yet. I was curious to know if Jonathan Tunick's role as orchestrator goes all the way back to the first shows in Toronto or if he became involved during the later Goodspeed try out period in 2008? If someone who saw either would post an answer it would be great to know. In spite of some comments I've read from some San Francisco area people who say they haven't heard much about it, I have heard quite a buzz in bay area theatre groups about this show since last December 2008. The word is that the music is very good.

[lstbutifulgrl2]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 8:40pm

yes there was a CD created after Toronto. There used to be videos/music on the Goodspeed website. Or you know, you could just wait til you see it.

[singer73192]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 8:49pm

http://www.goodspeed.org/uploadedfiles/shows/2008/The_Story_of_my_life/story.wmv

Here's a nice montage.

[Actor 7]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:28pm

Warning to those trying to access the goodspeed upload video of The Story Of My Life from the message board member who placed the link. It may damage your computer. My application quit twice so if this is someone's idea of a nasty joke, it isn't funny. It's too bad this sort of thing happens.

[lstbutifulgrl2]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:32pm

the video worked fine for me, just took a long time to buffer.

[Pianolin717]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:34pm

yeah, it worked for me too, but again, took a long time to buffer, and there wasn't anything holding my attention to watch it all, so after the first two songs, I exited... I didn't really care for the music :/

[Actor 7]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:38pm

I use a Mac laptop. Do you think it has something to do with Mac not being able to buffer it? Is it a Windows application? Thanks.

[lstbutifulgrl2]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:40pm

yes it's a windows application...

here is the link to the page, maybe you can get it in quicktime...

http://www.goodspeed.org/shows_more.aspx?id=1018

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 10:40pm

Really awful.

[Actor 7]

Posted: 2/1/09 at 11:01pm

Many thanks to the person who suggested trying Quicktime on my Mac to access The Story of My Life video with music clips. It worked fine. Thank you for taking the time to suggest this. I liked what I saw and heard very much. The music and the Jonathan Tunick orchestrations sounded quite beautiful. So much of what we perceive when we see or hear something new is individual. I saw the Roundabout 2004 production of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins and was overwhelmed by the beauty of it. Michael Starobin's smaller orchestrations for this production worked very well, with the orchestra located in the boxes on the right and left side of the Studio 54 Theatre. It was quite amazing how many different instruments each person played and the sound was very beautiful. I found the reaction was different with some who saw this show but for me it was a first class theatre experience and I have a feeling based on the short sound clips I just heard from The Story Of My Life that I would probably embrace this new musical. Can't wait to see and hear it first hand.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 6:08am

thud.

[bob8rich]

Posted: 2/2/09 at 6:32am

This looks and sounds very interesting. I've already booked to see the show when I'll be on New York in May. Now I'm really looking forward to seeing it.