elphaba610 reviews Into the Woods CD — Page 4

Dre,

This girl cannot read the difference between SCHWARTZ and SONDHEIM.

I also clearly stated that I was speaking to Elphaba610 NOT to Wicked fans. I like Wicked as well and consider myself a fan. However, I have enough sense and am open-minded enough to discover other shows.

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well, she did say that she was just getting inot Broadway, she's not a broadway fanatic yet.

and i only said that it seemed like you couldn't accept people who had different views than you. If Wicked is her favorite musical ever, let it be. She might find a better one later on that she likes more.

And I know the difference between the two composers but if you look quickly at a cover, you can easily get confused.

And yes, I was the one that said I didn't like Peters. I don't like her singing style at all. But her acting in ITW was great! I just said that Williams had a better singing voice. and, to create the best Witch for ITW, combine Williams and Peters to have a woman with Williams singing ability and Peters acting ability. It would be perfect.

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Dre, I can respect your opinion that you don't like Bernadette - to each his own. Elphaba610 just seems to be too easily dismisive of any show that isn't Wicked. I totally see what you are saying in his/her defense, but come on, "if you look quickly at a cover, you can easily get confused" if looking at a cd cover gets you "easily confused" then perhaps there are bigger problems to be dealt with.

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Carl Magnum for once I absolutely agree with you.

Elphaba610, madame, child, prepubescent little girl. You darling need to get a life before you traipse in here acting like you know anything about Wicked or Into the Woods.

You need to learn a little about the beauty of music, you need to learn to appreciate music and study it and analyze it and believe in it and feel it and experience it and sense it and cry for it and laugh at it and be moved in such a way that you don't know what to do.

To enter into the musical theatre world with a closed mind will leave you cold and bewildered. There is so much to love in the music of Stephen Schwartz and Stephen Sondheim that to exclude one is denying the very essence of musical theatre. Stephen Sondheim is my idol, I respect that man with all of my being and to see someone say they hate his work and then compare it to the work of Stephen Schwartz, a completely different composer in every musical theatre sense is nonsense.

You have a lot to learn before you earn the right to post on this message board. You have a lot to learn before you can analyze Stephen Sondheims music. You have a lot to learn before you appreciate that music. Maybe Into The Woods wasn't the right show for you just yet. You need to expand your horizons by challenging you ear, your mind, your thoughts with more and more complex music. Wicked is great but it's not sophisticated or technically brilliant or as beautiful as so much other work out there.

Find something else and expand your collection and your mind and if you feel differently about Sondheim then fantastic. If you don't then oh well. The first time I listened to Sweeney Todd I couldn't stand it, but I returned to it months later and discovered the true genius and I've been studying it since. I'm not saying that you don't discover something new about Wicked everyday but you certainly don't hear the same show twice when you experience Sondheim.

Open you mind. Open your heart. Release your soul and experience theatre for all it is:



Order
Design
Tension
Composition
Balance
Light
Harmony

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*applauds*

You get 10 points for that one, Sumofallthings.

Thank you Sumofallthings. That was said absolutly perfectly. I was going to write more, but now feel I don't have to.

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sonnnddddhheeeeiiiimmmm sssuuuXxx
WIkkkED RuLz!!!!!

Please. Look, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Ignorance, though, is not a form of opinion. I don't blame 610 for not having the knowledge or understanding of what Sondheim accomplished. S/he is willing to try again, and hopefully s/he will have an epiphany (though hopefully one NOT like Sweeney's...)

We also have to look at it this way: if you grew up (however old the original poster is) with the current bout of pop music ALWAYS in your ear, then Wicked is simply GOING to sound more familiar than Into the Wods, which, let's be honest, doesn't sound like anything that would be familiar to someone who hasn't heard - well - other Sondheim. I loved musicals since I was eight, so ITW wasn't so jarring to me when I discovered it at about the age of evelen.

What really concerns me about the original post, assuming it's not a parody or desperate cry for attention, is that the poster missed the humor that's apparent even on the CD. Hello, Little Girl, Goodbye Old Friend and the two Agony songs are all very funny...

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I will always remember the sound of Peters when she sung Children Will Listen.

That's all I gotta say.

BroadwayBettini2: thank you. i appreciate that. But remember, 610 said that s/he will look over ITW again. And that s/he is new to the broadway thing. so, let her/him have her/his opinion now. it's not that ignorant really, saying that you don't like ITW but love Wicked.

Hey, at least s/he listened to it and said afterwards, that s/he didn;t like it. s/he could have just said that s/he didn;t like it without listening to the whole thing, or just hearing one song and hating the whole thing from just that one song.

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ok, thanks. will do.

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great! thanks so much for understanding. i really don;t know them, but I try and help people out when i see that people are ganging up (not that you were really).

k, one person down. few more to go. lol.

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Sum will you marry me? hah.. in all seriousness... amazing post.

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I am not a racisit and I have nothing against Koreans. I voted for Kerry for christs sake! Seriously Get a life.