elphaba610 reviews Into the Woods CD — Page 6

Well, yes, and likewise, you wouldn't want Huck Finn singing broad ALW-style ballads for Big River, either. Certainly, music and lyrics do have to match a character.

Sondheim's usually an exception, though. Mrs. Lovett and John Wilkes Booth have lyrics that are probably more intelligent than their characters, too, but nobody minds. Jack's Mother is a pretty broad character -- we don't know much about her background, other than her husband left her, she's poor and she's not very attractive.

Looking back at Bobby's post, I was actually trying to say pretty much the same things. These shows are more conceptual and not so much straight narrative, like My Fair Lady or Big River, so the suspension of disbelief bar is pushed a little higher.

I think unrefined would be a much better word.

I would assume that if the show were to be taken as "realistic" the poor figure of Jack's mother would be "uneducated" and therefore unable to express her feelings with the words she uses in the show. That may not be the case though. I mean it is "A Long Time ago, in a distant kingdom" so maybe they had a solid educational system there.
However, since the entire story is a fairy tale I think yet another level of "disbelief" is added.

Why are we bothering to discuss such an "immature" show though?

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Yeah, when I think poor in a peasant sense, I think that they don't go to school, don't really have the access to education and such.

And I didn't know Bob Saget knew words like "mollified". Good for him!

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Updated On: 9/9/05 at 03:55 PM

I think Bob Saget only knows words that have F**k and Sh*t in them.

Well, see that's a good point Calvin. Am I really to believe that Schwartz thinks about the characters "social status" when coming up with a lyric, at least in the same way Sondheim does.

Not really.

He does rhyme Nessa and confessa after all.

Well, at least they don't rap in Wicked.

Yup, we all is real smart and junk.

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