devonian the song is Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts (and is a guilty pleasure of mine). What's odd is that musically it (like A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste) sounds very much like Steinman's pop music, and while there's a lot of gossip that he did help out with the score, as you point out the music is essentially a more aggressive arrangement of an old, now cut, Sunday song.
The Complete Aspects of Love book actually gives a really good idea of how the sets were stored in the wings, would fold out, etc. It's too bad Bjornson didn't live to do more musical theatre designs (her Follies set, for England,is the only decent pro Follies design I've seen outside of Aronson's original). I do agree the show works better in an intimate staging but I don't blame Bjornson--they were in an odd position since the audiences expected and wanted another Phantom spectacle and they were booked in a fairly large theatre I believe (I'm still a little surprised it flopped SO badly in New york though).
Mr Matt I'm THRILLED that you saw the same production as me (there was indeed a giant rocking horse) and even more so that you also thought it worked really well. Despite it touring, I haven't ran into too many other people who have seen it.
Does anyone have pics or an impression of the recent UK tour? Was it budget? How did it look?
The plot of Aspects has so much potential to be silly, I think that's another reason that, as you say, it works better when it's stripped away just to the characters. I do think, maybe because of this, it would work really well as an intimate TV musical. Wasn't one in the works?
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