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#26

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:26pm

No Robbie - please tell me she doesn't have pics of her children's deliveries on her website!! I'm BEGGING!!!!

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#27

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:28pm

Avenue Q? The most seamless book/score for a musical ever? I dont think so...

I second Into the Woods; what a clever show.

#28

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:30pm

Rath: She does.

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#29

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:31pm

Oh. My. God.

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#30

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:31pm

WICKED!!!

#31

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:32pm

For me my votes would be for Fiddler, West Side Story, and Sweeney Todd.....Urinetown would certainly be right there as well.

#32

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:33pm

I'd say anything from R&H....most ALW....Assassins is on my list too. And Once Upon a Mattress has a perfect fit, even though it's not that powerful.

But I'm not voting for Wicked.

Updated On: 8/12/04 at 04:33 PM

#33

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:35pm

As much as I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Wicked, it does not have the most seamless book and score ever. Although they work very well together.

#34

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:39pm

I was joking about Wicked. It is far from the most seemless book/score.

#35

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:41pm

As I said, they do work very well together but they are NOT the most seamless. I wish other Wicked fans would admit this....

#36

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:43pm

Also, Oklahoma! the Musical.

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"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

#37

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:52pm

True

#38

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 4:56pm

Les Miserables was the first thing to come to mind. But thinking back on it now, I think it ties with Fiddler. After seeing that on Broadway last week, I was so touched...I don't think there has ever been a more seamless book. The score is wonderful, too. But Les Mis has just as good a book as a score, which makes these two musicals the top of my list.

#39

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 5:26pm

Almsot any Sondheim show, mainly INTO THE WOODS, COMPANY, SWEENEY TODD, and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC come to mind. Others are GYPSY, WEST SIDE STORY, LES MIS, RENT, MY FAIR LADY, and URINETOWN. sry, but i don't think rodgers and hammerstein should be at the top of the list for a seamless book and score.

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#40

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 5:37pm

My adoration of Sondheim knows no bounds, and I love Company, but that musical is not a good example of a seamless book-score integration. On the contrary, the integration is very poor. But it's intentional, and works on its own terms- that's why it's a concept musical as opposed to a book musical.

#41

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 5:41pm

That's why i think it's seamless. it doesn't keep the show moving, but it does tell us about the relationships between each character and what they're like, or would like us to think they are. It may not be traditionally seamless, but it is exactly how the creators wanted it to be, and since they were dead on with what they wanted i put it on my list.

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"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

Updated On: 8/13/04 at 05:41 PM

#42

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 5:47pm

That doesn't make sense. Either the songs are a seamless part of the plot or they're not. The people in Company don't sing fluffy songs that are all sparkle and no meaning, but there is no plot, really, to advance with the songs.

#43

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 5:48pm

You may all yell at me for this - but I can take it...

The Producers

There... go and flame away!

~Jessica

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#44

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 5:53pm

A Little Night Music

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#45

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 6:02pm

I don't htink Oklahoma! should be on the list. "What a Beautiful Morning" makes me want to vomit.

#46

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 6:06pm

She Loves Me

#47

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:44pm

MY FAIR LADY

#48

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:48pm

How to succeed

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#49

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 8:53pm

" Almsot any Sondheim show, mainly INTO THE WOODS, COMPANY, SWEENEY TODD, and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC come to mind. Others are GYPSY, WEST SIDE STORY, LES MIS, RENT, MY FAIR LADY, and URINETOWN. sry, but i don't think rodgers and hammerstein should be at the top of the list for a seamless book and score."

COMPLETELY AGREED. especially GYPSY and INTO THE WOODS... brilliant! Sondheim is a genius! and Sunday in the Park with George.

#50

re: The most seamless book/score for a musical

Posted: 8/12/04 at 10:12pm

west side story-nuff said!