The Drowsy Chaperone Vs. The Wedding Singer Scores — Page 2

I love 80s bubblegum pop and a HUGE amount of 80s pop never lost its appeal with the public. However, if you are going to use the melodic style and arrangements as a basis for an original score, you need stronger lyrics and a more definitive sound. The Wedding Singer only hints at 80s pop without really capturing any authentic sound. They rely on the lyrics to supply the rest, but the whole thing comes across as one rather long gimmick in which someone got out an 80s reference guide and randomly threw in anything regardless of accuracy or intelligence.

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i think Drowsy is better, i can't stop listening to it.... but wedding singer is great fun too.

I listen to Drowsy to listen and sing along to a great score.

I listen to Singer as background noise to hum along with.

Wedding Singer for sheer listenability. The show might suck, but the CD is fun, light, great to sing along with.

However, I'd probably feel differently if I was able to see Drowsy Chaperone. Altho, that EFFING Toledo Surprise song GRAAAAAAAAAAATES on my one nerve...except for the record-skip part. That's pretty ingenius. And the CD make me fall even more in love with Georgia Engel than I was before and I didnt think that was possible. "OOO, is it going to be a wedding?!" "Oh, I forgot...tendale"

As much as I LOVE TDC (I've been following it since L.A., and it's easily one of my favorite musicals of all time), I think TWS had a much better, stronger, more varied score. TDC's lyrics were fantastic, but yes, that's why it won book. I think the score is great, too, but the second I got TWS's recording, I was hooked. It was just so indescribably perfect. So I think TWS definitely has the better score, but both of them are so strong and hilarious that you can't go wrong with either. It would have been nice to see TWS get at least one Tony, though, for something it actually could have won.

The Wedding Singer may not have won any awards but the opening number on the Tonys probably helped boost the audience numbers and give the show a longer run which is good for all involved. God knows that cast is energetic, but I really believe that Drowsy Chaperone deserved its wins. That funny little show is going to be around for a long time, right down to the eventual Tams-Whitmark high school productions. It is a bizarre but utterly loveable classic.

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Remember when The Drowsy Chaperone first opened and we all sat around thinking about how funny and cute it was because it was so accurate a pastiche of crappy musicals from the 1920s, but we worried that maybe it wasn't so good because it was an accurate pastiche of crappy musicals from the 1920s? IE The play within the play wasn't really all that good?

And then suddenly everybody turned around and changed their opinions and it won a Tony?

I must've been asleep.

There were a few off Broadway scores this past season that sadly were not eligible, and far outdid any of these new musicals that are playing on Broadway right now. As it stands, I think both are cute and funny and work for the show they're in. Not transcendent, earth shaking scores.

Also I think they're completely different scores so it's kind of a weird comparison to make anyway.

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