This is the Momnet..overrated!- Page 2
This is the Momnet..overrated!
#25This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 2:06amUh...don't yopu really mean JEKYLL & HYDE: Whole friggin' mess of a show overrated?
Urban
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/05
#26This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 2:53am
I like the song alot, but I admit it tends to get old faster then alot of other songs.
stage_door76
Broadway Star Joined: 1/18/05
#27This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 6:52am
i agree that the song is overdone, but what praytell makes it 'audition suicide'????
if you can sing it and sing it well, it's not suicide. it says something about your cast recording collection...but it's not suicide.
what makes singing TITM so deadly exactly in everyone's opinion?
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
voztimbrada
Leading Actor Joined: 4/5/05
#28This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 7:28amI think saying it is audition suicide might be overstating just a bit. If you can really wail, you'll still look good, no matter what you sing. I do think, however, that this song is highly overused. And that can be a problem at an audition. There was a period just after the show got big, that everyone and their uncle was singing it, and everyone in the theatre community got sick of that song really fast. Now, a lot of people sort of role their eyes when they hear it. The song was just completey used up. Plus, a lot of Wildhorne's stuff has this "serious, but not quite serious" feel to it. It all borders on campy, but it can be really fun and moving at the same time. I actually think this is Widhornes intention. This quality in his music can make it problematic at auditions. When the song is presented in all seriousness, it can come across as corny. If it's presented as cheesy and funny, it doesn't seem to fit the spirit of the music and what's being said. Frank Wildhorne is an interesting enigma in the musical theatre. But, the fact remains, "This is the Moment" is in most cases, not a wise audition choice. By choosing to sing that song, you are stacking the cards against yourself unnecessarily before you even step in to the room. That's just my two cents.
WildhornFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 2/5/05
#29This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:09am
voztimbrada - You made some very interesting points regarding Frank Wildhorn's music. I never thought about some of the things you mentioned.
A quick note to those who say he follows the same format in his music structure:
Yes, he does, for the most part.
But why does he do that?
Because he writes theaterical "pop" music. If you listen to pop music, there is a certain structure that most pop songs use. Frank tries to make ties between the theatrical and popular music worlds and his song structures reflect that.
That's my two cents.
#30This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:40am
I really like the show, and at first I really liked this song, but the lyrics are kinda bad, and the song is dull.
My favorite song is Alive (reprise.) I love the anger and crazed look.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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phantom_tenor
Leading Actor Joined: 1/11/05
#31This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:58am
Everyone but for Anthony Warlow should be permanently banned from singing this song. It is boring, really sucks all round and Anth is the only one who can make it interesting.
How on earth they could take I Need To Know out of the show and leave Moment in is beyond me.
#32This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 10:53am
the first version of TITM i heard was from the "Fabulous Phantoms" CD. It was sung by Gary Mauer, a previous Bway Phantom. however, it was a bit faster and so i kinda liked it. but when i bought the j&h cd it was rather slow and boring.
Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky. With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high! Blood-red were the spurs i' the golden noon; wine-red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat...
(The Highwayman. Sung by: Loreena McKennitt)
#33This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:09amWhen I saw someone on tv doing an ice skating routine to the song, I knew right there that it was overrated.
#34This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:12pm
The worst TITM is the Donny Osmond version on his Broadway CD. Talk about sounding cheesy. I think a lot of the problem with TITM is that it has been done to death, plus all of the versions in the various vocal selections books have a very easy and watered down accompaniment. It is basically the vocal line with a few chords in the left hand. If you had a great pianist who could improv or a really great arrangement then it could be done well. It is just hard to sound great on such a powerful song when the arrangement is so thin--and when you have to follow the strict rhythm it gives you since your part is going to be doubled in the accompaniment. So far the best version comes from the probably out of print original vocal selections book that has the logo from the Anthony Warlow recording on it. It at least has a full intro--not just one chord! Still...Anthony's rendition is BY FAR the best one.
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Updated On: 8/29/05 at 01:12 PM
#35This Is The Moment
Posted: 8/29/05 at 3:57pm....and at every audition, at least three young male singers will attempt it - while the directors try not to yawn. Its the male "On My Own."
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
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