Tell Us Your Frank Wildhorn Favorites!- Page 3

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 10:29pm

You missed a few of the other newer frank shows.

Alice (opening in Europe)
Cyrano (opening in London)
Vienna (opened in Budapest) which is supposedly incredible
The show in Japan which I forget the name of.
Frankenstein (opening in Houston?)

And I am sure that I am missing one or two out there.

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 10:43am

THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL is a great score and has a fantastic book and lyrics!!

WAITING FOR THE MOON also has a fantastic, fun, upbeat jazzy score with a very strong book. The only problem with that show is that there is TOO much focus on the two main characters. Secondary characters need to be introduced.

CAMILLE CLAUDEL is by far his strongest music, book and lyrics. The music is sooo different from anything else he has ever written. To me, it sounds very Sondheim-influenced. The lyrics are wonderful, especially to the song, A WOMAN IN HIS ARMS, and the book is breathtaking.

DRACULA... blah. JEKYLL & HYDE... ehhh. THE CIVIL WAR has some great tunes, but there is no book, so the show doesn't work.

HAVANA's music is also incredible, but I've yet to read the book.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 11:03am

During the first J&H tryout after its world premiere at the Alley, it was noted in the program that Wildhorn was working on Zorro. I wonder whatever happened to that.

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 2:25pm

Not quite sure what happened to ZORRO. Apparently, he was working on it with Leslie Bricusse, I've heard. Not quite sure if that's true though.

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 7:27am

I forgot to add, it's incredible to me how much his shows change. There are so many different versions of each of his shows!!!

Updated On: 1/1/08 at 07:27 AM

[MusicalComedyMan]

Posted: 12/19/06 at 7:41am

I love it any time I can see a wildhorn show and sing lyrics from different shows to the same music.