Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)- Page 2

[Rentaholic2]

re: Sung Thru Musicals on Broadway ( Famous & Infamous)#25

Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:33pm

TheGaIsSilent, read the stuff BEFORE Plum's post.

[Michael Strathmore]

Jane Eyre...#26

Posted: 12/20/04 at 12:50pm

Alas, the best through-composed musical NEVER to make it to Broadway was the initial version of Paul Gordon's JANE EYRE. This show was incredible in Toronto. Unfortunately, the revamped Broadway version didn't compare.



--M--

[andyf]

[ ]#27

Posted: 12/20/04 at 1:02pm

I was waiting for someone to mention Sideshow.
How can you forget all the awkward "Seriously...why aren't we just speaking??" moments of conversation.

Andrew, tonight isn't about you! It isn't even about me!!! - [FD]

[StickToPriest]

[ ]#28

Posted: 12/20/04 at 1:03pm

SWEENEY is not sung-through.

It almost is. But not quite.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[Unknown User]

[ ]#29

Posted: 12/21/04 at 5:37am

And Ragtime is not sung thru at all....

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[Loge]

[ ]#30

Posted: 12/21/04 at 10:48am

I think you can largely consider shows like Ragtime and Sweeney Todd as sung-through because an enormous amount of those shows is sung rather than spoken. They rely much more on song than dialogue. I tend to think of the sung-throughs as "mega-musicals". If were saying any dialogue excludes a show from being deemed as sung-through, then it would be difficult to name any show as sung-through. Even Caroline, or Change has a small amount of dialogue.

La Boheme is an opera that played on Broadway, not a musical! Just wanted to clarify.

"What the hell happened to you? You look like a Make-A-Wish Kid. You know, I just knew you were gonna bring shame on this new family of ours, and it just figures you had to go make yourself over into some heroin-shootin skate board chic on the only day E! could interview you!" - Cherry Cherry, on her daughter Mary Cherry

[Mister Matt]

[ ]#31

Posted: 12/21/04 at 11:06am

The Human Comedy

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[robbiej]

[ ]#32

Posted: 12/21/04 at 11:16am

Loge,

I think what separates a sung-through musical from a 'traditional' musical is not necessarily the amount of music, but how that show employs the use of recictative. A musical like CAROLINE uses it quite a bit. Sweeney and Ragtime, not so much.

"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."

[munkustrap178]

[ ]#33

Posted: 12/21/04 at 11:18am

Margo - JANE EYRE wasn't completely sung through.

Neither was BARE.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson