The Bee CD
The Bee CD
#0The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 3:29pm
First off, here's my review of the show: https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?lastpage=on&thread=854150&dt=061205043001
As I said, "the score is just too bland."
I stick by that statement.
However, after listenign to the CD, I am finding it more nejoyable. There is nothing "great" or "grand" about it. It just sounds a lot better when it's playing into my ears, I guess.
They recorded a lot of the show, which I was happy about. Not the whole thing, but enough that brings me back to the Circle in the Square laughing.
The show is, without a doubt, laugh out loud funny. The CD, I feel, captures that.
I now find myself always humming "Magic foo-ooot."
If you saw the show, buy this CD. Even if you weren't over impressed with the score - buy it. It sounds 74.768% better on the CD.
#1re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 3:30pmI LOVE the cd! My two favorite songs are "the I love you song" and "I speak six languages"
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
#2re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 3:34pmlife is random and unfair... life is pandemonium!!
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#4re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 3:49pm74.768% better, eh? Sounds good to me. Amazon's still selling them right?
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#6re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 4:06pm
I completely agree! When I saw the show, I was debating whether to get the CR or not, but I'm so glad I decided to. It's definitely a score that gets better with each listen, as you start to discover new gems that you didn't notice before.
But I must ask everyone's opinion of The I Love You Song...
As I was leaving the theatre, I heard one woman comment that she loved that song, but felt that the "depression runs in our family" line was unneccessary and took away from the overall beauty of the song. I myself could lean either way, but I almost feel like I agree with her, that it's adding a bit of comedy that doesn't really need to be there. Like the song overall is touching and sweet, but this line pulls it away from that.
What do you think? I'm curious to hear other people's thoughts.
~Jessica
"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure."
~Roger Bart
Updated On: 6/20/05 at 04:06 PM
#7re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 4:09pmI thing that you need some comedy. I mean, it's a child singing.
#8re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 4:12pm
BSo- you sure its not, 74.769% better on the CD. but 768? lol.
i still need to buy the OCR, i love the i love you song.
#9re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 4:13pm
Look, I did the calculation 10 times, at least.
Get off my back.
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#10re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 4:38pmI think the reason people don't realize the music is good until they're listening to it on cd is because the score perfectly fits the show and is telling you so much about the characters, etc, that you don't have time to take in the melody and walk out humming it. This is definitely the cd of the season that I enjoy the most.
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Broadway Star Joined: 11/28/04
#11re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 4:42pm
I am in love with Pandemonium, My unfortunate Erection (coz i can belt it out), The I LOve you Song is just an eargasm all round...i also like the Counsellors Prayer thingy, and the 'Second' song is awesome....i just find the 'Goooddbyyeeee' bits a bit tedious thats all :)
XXX
#12re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 5:30pmHello!!!! It's William Finn! Of course the music is brilliant!
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#13re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 5:32pmHello.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
#14re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 6:13pm
Hello.
Bonjour.
Здравствуйте.
Hola.
Guten Tag.
Ni hao.
Konnichi wa.
Olá.
Dobrý den.
Shalom.
Sawubona.
Buon giorno.
Bon jou.
Salam.
I speak six languages
And I can say hello
In at least 7 more
#15re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 6:16pm
Thank you, Marcy Park...
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"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
#16re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 6:29pmmy copy just arrived today!
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#18re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 6:54pmI love the Bee! My CD has been playing non-stop. I'm liking the music so much that I think i'm going to try and see it again in September!
"If we don't wake up
and shake the nation,
we'll eat the dust of the world,
wondering why...why?"
#20re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 8:01pmI LOVE imitating them! Esp. Leaf!! haha
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
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#23re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 8:19pm
I love when Leaf is talking about his hair, and the way he says 'pleasant to the touch'.
I want Jesse Tyler Ferguson for my own!
"Well, obviously Company is about the Kennedy family. Bobby is played by Raul, and JFK is played by Harvey Fierstein."
-vfd88
#24re: The Bee CD
Posted: 6/20/05 at 8:22pmThe subtle nuances in the score are what makes the musical for me. It is just fantastic how many little expressions that nobody else hears but me get me to laugh out loud. Then the person next to me will laugh at something I hadn't heard. I hear something new every day on that recording.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
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