The Drowsy Chaperone Vs. The Wedding Singer Scores

[JudasIscariot]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 2:40am

Well, I recently picked up both of these recordings, and I must say that I enjoy The Wedding Singer much more. The score for Drowsy is very simple, has very few songs, and doesn't really have any show stoppers, except for maybe 'Show Off' and 'Aldolpho'. Wedding Singer has been in my CD player much more, I think it's a better score.

So, what do you all think? Which score do you like better and why?

[ErikInTheCity]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 2:49am

Wedding Singer, hands down. Much more repeatable. Even my almost 60 yr old mother has been listening to it over and over.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 2:55am

They're both simplistic, but I find that I like the Wedding Singer's score more. I love the style of the songs and the young cast more. However, Drowsy's songs are great in the context of the show, but they're not the type of songs I want to listen to while driving on a two hour car trip.

[Tiny-Toon]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:07am

Wedding Singer all the way! It's much more fun and unlike DROWSY it will not put you to sleep.

Updated On: 6/20/06 at 03:07 AM

[PARISinNYC]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:35am

I love both shows so much, but The Wedding Singer has a much better score. The Drowsy Chaperone is exactly the way it was advertised: a musical WITHIN a comedy. It has very few songs and only three of them are considered as "show-stopping" numbers. The Wedding Singer is much better. My sister came with me to NYC last week and she knew nothing of either shows and she even prefered Wedding Singer. "If I Told You" is such a beautiful song.

[whimsical]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 4:05am

I pretty much agree with the posts above. Not that I think Wedding Singer has a fabulous score or anything, but it's much more fun to listen to than Drowsy. HOWEVER. I prefer Drowsy as a complete package. It's a better overall show (of course).

[JasonM12480]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:50am

"The Drowsy Chaperone" won best score for a reason, folks. True - everyone has their own differences, and likes and dislikes. If "Wedding Singer" does it for you, go for it. If "Drowsy Chaperone" does it for you, then go for it. We each like what we like, no questions asked. But musically speaking, I think "Drowsy's" score is much more 'musical theater', and HIGHLY clever compared to "Wedding Singer", which I found to be generic, banal, and uninspired to me.

[GirlforTartaglia]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:53am

Wedding Singer is more bubbly - it's more enjoyable to listen for "music's sake". Drowsy is good to listen to for the story line.

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:21am

I love drowsy, but Wedding Singer makes me want to hug someone.

[renthead92]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 9:44am

While I love both, I think The Wedding Singer is just a little bit better. It makes me want to start dancing every time I listen to it. Me favorite song is "Right in front of Your Eyes." Amy Spanger rocks! But, however, there are some not so great songs. Such as "It's All About the Green," or "Single."

[Katurian2]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 9:47am

Wedding Singer makes me feel like I have landed in a time machine and am stuck in a bad 80s music video. Drowsy rules for me.....but Jersey Boys is the ultimate in replay value for me...

[Princeton78]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:00am

While clever, Drowsy's score is rather simplistic and heavily reliant on being seen as well as heard. In my mind, this is why on CD, TWS score comes across better. I personally prefer TWS score.

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:01am

I have both scores on my IPOD, and I bought them the day of the TONY's, and I love how Drowsy is a throw back to the twenties in its music and style (of course due to the fact the show takes place in 1928 respectively) and Wedding Singer just seems like you can dance to it (its like Hairspray, you can dance to it and it sounds alot like the music of the era.) plus when do you hear an old woman call someone a "skanky ho" in a Broadway musical, I havent heard any other.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:15am

Wedding Singer tries to sound 80s in the orchestrations, but the lyrics are trite rather than witty. And there are many references that are not 80s (the terms "skanky" and "word to the..." didn't exist in the 80s) or are the wrong part of the 80s. Styles and trends moved very quickly and the lyrics cover almost the entire decade (and beyond). They just didn't do their homework. Had they been more accurate and worked harder at refining the score, then I might have liked it. To me, it sounds sloppy and hastily put together. As an 80s teen, Wedding Singer is one of those 80s tributes that seems more like it was created by those who either weren't there or didn't pay attention. It would be like the appearance of flower children in Hairspray because the show takes place in the 60s. Sorry, try again. This CD will be a dust magnet.

Drowsy is delightful. Sure it has fewer numbers, but so what? They are all very well written. I enjoy each and every song. It will definitely be played more often.

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:19am

Very nice obverstations, Mister Matt- I adore you're avatar by the way. Gotta love Natalie.

Who wants to be a skinny pencil? I'm happy being a magic marker!"-- Natalie, Facts of Life.

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:21am

There are about six songs I LOVE in the Wedding Singer and four I LOVE in Drowsy - but on the other hand there's more songs that I just can't stand in the Wedding Singer score. "Single"??? WTF.
Sadly, they're both fairly mediocre.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:24am

"the terms "skanky"...not in the 80s..."

I forgot what the name of this movie was called, but it was a corny movie about a loser girl named Louise who finds out that she is a witch on her 16th birthday. I remember one of the scenes involving a pool, someone calls someone a "skank," and that movie is 80s.

Anyways, the Drowsy and Wedding Singer CDs are like comparing apples and oranges. Drowsy has your more traditional musical theatre sound, while Wedding Singer is generic 80s music. I love both, and I'm glad Drowsy won.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:28am

I never heard the word "skank" in the 80s. Not once. I have no idea what that movie is, but it was not a common slang term. "Scuzzy" would have been something we would have used.

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:30am

millie- its called Teen Witch, believe me, I've seen it like a billion times. Its an 80's movie all right, right down to the jean jacket and scrunchy.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:30am

The movie was called Teen Witch with Robyn Lively...it was 1989 though. I saw it on the Disney Channel a while ago. Maybe the part I'm thinking about was dubbed by Disney...but I remember hearing it.

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:32am

Me too Millie- I think I heard it when it aired on a different network, but I too saw it on Disney Channel.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 12:18pm

The Drowsy Chaperone is simplistic because it is satire. It is SUPPOSED to be simplistic because the songs of the 1920's were all "june and croon" simple lyrics and 2/4 melodies. The music in Drowsy is very clever and certainly deserved the recognition it got and the awards it garnered at the Tonys.

The music from The Wedding Singer, except for "It's Your Wedding Day" (and even that song, come to think of it) are the buibblegum crap from the 80's that we hoped we had grown out of. The Wedding Singer score got every recognition it deserved, too, at the Tonys.

Posted: 6/20/06 at 12:24pm

I guess I'm the only one who enjoys Single. For me, it's a hilarious homage to the boy bands of the 1980s.

[roseaddams]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 12:29pm

There are more songs on The Wedding Singer that work on their own. It's hard to skip around in the Drowsy score.

Krazy -- I liked Single.

[timote316]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 12:31pm

As a whole, I think Drowsy's score is better. I enjoy Wedding Singer more, however.

And shesamarshmallow described both perfectly: mediocre. That basically described all of the past season. Mediocre.