but that doesn't mean its bad technique When it can permanently damage your vocal cords, it is bad technique. That doesn't mean it can't sound good at times, it just means it is bad vocal health. I happen to enjoy her voice at times, but always worry for her vocal cords.
Priest- Ive honestly always wanted to know what you thought about Wicked. Care to post? *Im not being sarcastic, FYI* I'll try to give you the best idea of what I feel about the show.
I think
Wicked is a show that appeals to the masses, and thus is good for B'way in that respect.
However, I feel it is bad for B'way in that it, like many musicals of today, relies on spectacle over substance.
The score is mostly mediocre, especially for Stephen Schwartz. I, at least, expect more from him.
I think that
Popular is a brillaint song. Witty lyrics, clever music. But it is perhaps the only song in the show I would even start to call brilliant.
Much of the lyrics are quite amateurish.
I always cringe at the lyric:
When I'm with the Wizard
My whole life is gonna change
Cause when you're with the Wizard
No one thinks your strange Schwartz spent too much time on the songs fort his two female leads, and thus the group songs and all the songs sung by other characters should have been vastly improved upon, or rewritten.
They weren't, and the group numbers are quite 'hokey'
But the audience enjoys them based on the "spectacle of the staging"
Back to spectacle over substance.
The book has some unfixable flaws.
But, for the most part, it is above adequate.
Could it use some reworking? Sure.
Does it desperately need it? Naw.
Depending on the actors, I would give the show a B/B-.
With average actors, the material would probably merit a C+ from me.
But do I understand why some people love it?
Yes, because it was their introduction to B'way.
It bridges the type of music most people enjoy with theatre.
And hopefully it'll bring in people to the theatre who will begin to discover knew, better shows.
I think the show will run a good 6+ years.
But after that it will be forgotten, because it's own mediocrity and what I feel was laziness in the creators ruins what could have been a landmark show.
And that's all I have to say about it.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Updated On: 1/5/05 at 05:03 PM
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