Which score do you prefer: The Full Monty or Dirty Rotten Scoundrels? — Page 2

The Full Monty definitely!!

So far


DRS- 10
TFM- 6

I also think DRS is more fresh in people's minds.

Updated On: 7/11/09 at 12:26 AM

The Full Monty is easily a far superior show as whole than DRS. Monty has one of the best scores of the 90s, both lyrically and musically.

The show premiered at the Globe and on Broadway in 2000 so I suppose some of the score could have been written in the late 90s, but I wouldn't say the score is of the 90s.

"The Goods" is one of the greatest pop showtunes of this decade, in my opinion.

Honestly, if it works, there's nothing wrong with copying and pasting. Most of My Fair Lady is Pygmalion. At least The Full Monty uses a great deal of original jokes, and includes a great deal of scenes that aren't in the movie. McNally and Yazbeck seized opportunities from the film that called for music, and created moments of their own to add more. You wanna talk about copying and pasting for the sake of pleasing fans, look at Young Frankenstein or Spamalot. In my opinion, The Full Monty is a prime example on how to successfully adapt a movie into a musical.

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I love them both. I think David Yazbek is the funniest man on Broadway. That said, I think Dirty Rotten Scoundrels *just* pips The Full Monty to the post. Bear in mind I've seen neither show on stage so am literally just judging by the cast recordings, but then the subject does specify score, so I guess I'm in the clear.

The Full Monty has some freakin' BRILLIANT numbers. Ridiculously amazing. I love the arrangement for 'Scrap', 'Man' is just genius, and 'Big-Ass Rock' forever makes me laugh my ass off. However, there are songs in the score I skip when listening to the CD. I imagine they work better on-stage, but not so much for the listening. So while there are some absolute top-notch A+ numbers, there's also a few B- numbers for me.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, on the other hand, consistently hovers around the A-/B+ mark. While I wouldn't say any one individual song comes out on top or that ANY of the songs are better than the really good ones from The Full Monty, the important fact here for me while making my judgement is that I never skip a single track. I listen to every last one and chuckle merrily throughout.

So even though The Full Monty is abso-freakin'-lutely BRILLIANT at its better moments, the overall consistency of the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels score means it *just* wins. Only just though.

And what's so wrong about sounding like the '80s? :P

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For me it's easily DRS. No offense, but "Big Ass Rock" isn't even close to being in the same league as "Gotta Get A Gimmick."

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I definitely think people love DRS so much because of the OBC. Come on, Lithgow, Norbert, Sherie, Gleason, Jbara, and Gettelfinger? It was an AMAZING cast. But based solely on material, it is weaker than Monty, in my opinion.

Updated On: 7/11/09 at 02:36 PM