Taboo OBC Album- Page 2

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 10:51am

Dress Circle didnt have it last Saturday and it was them who gave me the explanation ive given a few posts up this thread! Happy hunting tho and good luck!

[TheBoyDownstairs]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 10:56am

I got the OBC recently, and listened to it and agree that its a great score. But I had such a hard time following what the hell was happening that I've not listened to it since. Without any synopsis in the CD and I cant find one online, so I'm pretty clueless what is happening in each song, which really ruins listening to it for me. Still a great score though.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 11:04am

I was in your boat tbd - loving the music but not really being able to understand the story. A friend explained it to me, and it made a world of difference. This is one on my top played cast recordings.

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:13pm

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[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:22pm

The cover of the Special Edition your looking for!

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:28pm

The original single release DVD, which is getting increasingly harder to find.
There is a copy on Amazon but its the Spanish release priced at $47

[folkyboy]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 12:45pm

i LOVE "Taboo!" it's really such a genius score!

[amoni]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 2:01pm

"Ive said it before and i'll say it again-Rosie ruined the perfect show that London had."

And your love for the show is great but I give Rosie credit for having the balls to tackle it in the first place. I absolutely loved the Broadway version. I was satisfied. Rosie introduced us here in the states to that phenomenal score, and to the talented Euan Morton and that amazing cast. Like I've said before, this show will live again. It was just a little before it's time. Remember "The Rocky Horror Show" played exactly 45 performances on Broadway, with Tim Curry & cast, no less and now has been performed in every little city in the world.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 2:20pm

If she loved the show in London as much as she told the world why wasnt that the show that was staged in NY!

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 2:26pm

I'm glad Rosie brought the show here. I loved it, I could have watched it many more times, but she did it a disservice. I've had some conversations with people involved in the production and I learned some interesting things.

One of the main criticisms of the show was that we never got to know the characters and therefore didn't care about them. Well, I was told that she cut a lot of scenes which would have allowed us to know them.

I didn't see the London version and I wonder if the lack of character development was evident there.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 2:38pm

Yes it was there and strong enough for you to follow the show.
If you get to see the DVD you'll see.

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[Jane2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 2:39pm

What kind of reviews did the show get there? I'm sorry if this was already discussed way back then.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 2:45pm

Considering its subject it was very well received by the UK press. I dont know if you know this but it was in a great little theatre called 'The Venue' which only sat 250. Thats the show Rosie saw one matinee and then threw it at a large Broadway stage! If you love something that much you dont take it and give it to new writers etc etc and then tell people that this is the wonderful show i saw in London!

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 3:14pm

thanks Wicked Boy. I think the reason a lot of good shows close early is because they aren't in the right venue.

Taboo, Trailer Park, Evil Dead, Rocky Horror, Die Mommy Die, off the top of my head are some shows which I think should have played small houses.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 3:16pm

The Venue was smaller than the theatre where Evil Dead played!

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 3:34pm

'Hey! smile everyone ! We've just got our closing notice!'

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 3:54pm

"The Venue was smaller than the theatre where Evil Dead played!"

that's good - ! Evil's venue was two seats short of a broadway house.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 3:56pm

I like those theatres -The Dodgers.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 4:05pm

Yay! (New World Stages now)

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

Posted: 2/19/08 at 1:52pm

So can anyone tell me what the synopsis is? I'm can't find it anywhere else.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 2/19/08 at 2:33pm

It actually got some great reviews here in the UK (and so deserved them)

I have to say though i didnt hate the Broadway version i just thought it was glossed a bit to much, i did like a lot of the musical arrangements for the Broadway one

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 2/19/08 at 2:36pm

One of the best scores in the last 10 years. Even Sondheim liked it!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 2/19/08 at 2:40pm

it was robbed for best score at the Tonys

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

Posted: 2/20/08 at 1:34am

I thought Caroline, or Change was robbed, but Taboo was better than the other scores nominated.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 2/20/08 at 2:31am

I disagree that the book was better in London. I've seen both and I much prefer the changes made for Broadway, but I don't know if they had anything to do with Rosie. It's clear that she saw potential, but anyone could see that the show needed some work. I felt like the London book focused way too much on Marcus and his parents and the Broadway book did a pretty good job of refocusing the material on the more interesting characters. They also did away with all the seemingly ad-libbed scenes from the London production which maybe worked over there, but they didn't really have anything to do with a plot and therefore bored me to tears so I was fine with loosing them. The only change I would have liked to see was having Marcus being introduced a little earlier in the narrative so we didn't have to loose the scene in the bathroom between him and Leigh Bowery. That was one of my favorite scenes in the London version.