The Wizard of Oz: NEW SONG- Red Shoes Blues — Page 2

^Because people do not understand that there can be new interpretations of old material.

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That's a very good point, Almira.

I don't know that that's true, Husk. In what way?

When I was a kid in '74, the annual showing of the movie was one of the highlights of the kid calendar, along with your birthday and Christmas.

I know a lot of twenty-somethings who have never seen it, or saw it once and don't think of it any differently than any other kid film.

There was a point in the mid to late eighties, if I remember correctly, when the powers that be realized that the 1939 film could was a mass marketing goldmine along the same lines as the then new Disney films.

I grew up waiting every year for my one shot to see the film. At that time OZ related merchandise relatively scare and wasn't usually connected to the film (except for my action figure playset that I loved).

Then BOOM! in the mid-eighties there were OZ key chains, stickers, calenders, mugs, action figures, happy meal tie-ins, etc. All connect to the 1939 film. You could even buy ruby slipper tampons! (I jest.)

OZ, as related to the film, now saturated the market place. If you collected OZ stuff you'd go bankrupt trying to keep up because every year there would be a new ton of Judy Garlands/Ruby Slipper crap made in China.


I *think* this shift in mass merchandising is the "hadn't quite taken hold of America like it has these days" Husk is referring to.

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Updated On: 3/4/11 at 02:57 PM

"It is possible to like Lloyd Webber (which I do) and dislike this song (which I do)."

Testify!

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I guess that plot point is always doomed to be confusing, like when the witch says in the film that she's "sent a little insect on ahead to take the fight out of them."

And I always used to go "Huh?"

Yeah, but, you know, now we finally have a song for Professor Marvel!

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I love the song to be honest. I dont know why. Does anyone know when they are releasing a cast album

You all have no idea how "excited" I am that Professor Marvel gets to sing in this, when "If I Were King Of The Forest" lays cut on the floor.

Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber said that the film is missing songs for its two witches, which is a reason why they were adding songs. However, Glinda sings nothing other than the Munchkinland sequence. She doesn't sing "Optimistic Voices" in this version.

I'm also sorry to say that after I watched this video, when trying to remember it, the song "Kiss Of The Spider Woman" popped into my head.

EDIT: So sorry about the triple post.

Updated On: 3/3/11 at 08:45 PM

Updated On: 3/3/11 at 08:45 PM

I couldn't give a toss about the reasoning for this song or how good it is. When you have a voice like THAT singing it, it doesn't matter (to me).

I can honestly judge a song by a minute and a half- that's typically about half the length of a standard musical theatre song. And it went nowhere in that time- the lyrics were repetitive "I want the girl, I want the shoes, I want the power, I want the shoes, I want the power, I want the girl" and there's not much in the way of a discernible "tune". A song should be about the journey, not just the final destination.

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As the song can be important, there's a lot elements to a musical number. So I mean the song could be bad, but the number overall can be great.