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[winston89]

re: green green dress#25

Posted: 5/9/08 at 6:12pm

Come To Your Senses is not meant to fit in with the rest of the show. It is supposed to be a performance of Superbia that your seeing. You have to keep in mind that Come To Your Senses was not a song Larson wrote for Tick Tick Boom. It was one he wrote for Superbia.

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[alliez92092]

re: green green dress#26

Posted: 5/9/08 at 6:21pm

I'm one of the few who was more moved by this show then Rent. It's got it's problems, but I just find it to be incredibly more profound and heartbreaking. The New Rep theater here in Boston did a production earlier this fall and it had me in tears the entire time.

I can't even listen to Molly Ringwald singing Come to Your Senses. I wish she hadn't been on for Raul's last night, because I love listening to that show. Just, not her.

[Unknown User]

re: green green dress#27

Posted: 5/9/08 at 6:41pm

First, I thought "I love the SP photo" was meaning to talk about South Pacific, so I was really confused... even though I saw the sock puppet picture haha.

And I'm stupid because I thought that it was NLB not Raul. I have the recording too. wow But I really like some of the songs of this show, it isn't the strongest but neither is RENT.

[shesamarshmallow]

re: green green dress#28

Posted: 5/9/08 at 6:55pm

I entirely love the book of ttB. If I keep this up no one's going to listen to any of my recommendations ever again. But come on, chubstitute!

"Come to Your Senses" is such a great song, but Amy Spanger butchers those upper notes on the cr.

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[Neverandy]

re: green green dress#29

Posted: 5/9/08 at 6:56pm

Kitzarina- why do you attend so many high school talent shows?

I always thought of TTB as good as long as you go into it knowing that RENT was coming next. Most of the songs are ALMOST great, but they lack that indefinable quality that RENT, as a whole, seemed to have. Nevertheless, as long as you know the backstory and the "Stakes" (which couldn't be higher when the show is basically about needing to write what is the defining piece of musical theater for a generation) that TTB is an enjoyable show.

Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?

[laura is broadway]

re: green green dress#30

Posted: 5/10/08 at 12:44am

Weird, it is extremely popular among teenagers around here, even those not interested in theatre.....

And I also love the music, but not so much the book.

[dramagirl487]

re: green green dress#31

Posted: 5/10/08 at 9:47am

heres why I like it:

Gotta admit, i'm a huge rent fan and found it that way, so i'd chalk a great deal of it to that

I personally love Jonathan Larson's music. I think it has a smooth but edgy touch to both the lyrics and songs that set him aside from Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sondheim. Although i love a great deal of their work, some of their songs can beinterchangable within shows - they repeat a lot of the same chord progressions and the music takes the time predictable turns (listen to Johanna V.S. No One is Alone OR Music of the Night V.S. Memory)

Larson's music rarely repeats and seems to defy usual expectations on where the notes are headed.

I'm also fascinated by the fact that its very much an autobiography of a man who died before realizing the success he had. "Johnny" of Tick...Tick...Boom and the struggling Diner-waiter/pre-RENT composer of John Larson are one in the same, and I feel like i know the end of thr story when the writer himself didn't.

Its a musical that i like for, as you can tell, weird reasons, but that might address the fact that people like it despite the fact that its not the best show