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Jacqueline 12:12 am UTC 02/20/17 |
| In reply to: | So glad so many of you are so thrilled about the show!! - rockfenris2005 01:35 pm UTC 02/19/17 |
| I wish we could have all seen it. I'm sure with time, we will. The support and well wishes from everyone - including those that could not attend - means so much to Jim and the success of the production. > Wanted this to work so badly. > Remember the disappointment with "Dance of the Vampires" > and "Bat out of Hell 3". > And the pressure, with this, because it was "Neverland" > and also just Jim getting another musical produced in > general, something I really wanted to see him succeed at. > Pre-production on this one I think has been going on for > about twelve years, but of course goes back about nearly > 50 years, which they've said. Jim would have started > working on "Dream Engine" I imagine in 1968 which is 50 > years next year. A big bonus for all this working out btw > would--at last--be a nice big box set for "Bat out of > Hell" like one of the Pink Floyd Immersion releases but > we'll see. I haven't got my hopes up. > > I deliberately didn't have my hopes up about this but I > was secretly crossing my fingers. I still am. You just > never, never know. And now the next thing is what the > reviews are going to be like. "Les Mis" is the longest > running musical in West End history, but that got some > shocking reviews back in the day, and I can just imagine > saying the usual stuff about over the top and bombastic. > As if these are bad things, btw. I don't understand how > over the top and bombastic is a negative thing!! Explore > those emotions to the fullest degree. Jim like Wagner > Verdi and Puccini before him is the embodiment for that > for me. > > I also always thought that "For crying out loud" and "I'd > do anything for love" in a musical is like Rodgers and > Hammerstein having "If I loved you" and "You'll never walk > alone" in "Carousel". "If I loved you" btw was also a > twelve minute long scene. > > I haven't seen the show. I don't know when I'm going to. > But I can also tell you, from down here, I could feel the > buzz. All the way over here. So that's really cool. I fell > asleep right around the same time Act One would have been > blasting away in the theatre. But were people going to > hate or love it? > > Again, so relieved & thrilled with what I'm hearing so > far. I have a feeling that none of us can ever quite > explain the feelings we get listening to Jim's music, and > experiencing those worlds, but I've tried to. For > instance, the chorus for "Braver than we are" is like > morning sunshine in Venice I imagine, and "Original sin" > is like mist in Transylvania and a wolf about to cry out. > > As crazy as this is going to sound, I fell in love as I > would with a person to "It just won't quit" and "Not > allowed to love". The opening of "It just won't quit" > just... can't explain that. I can only imagine what it > would have been like sitting in the theatre hearing that, > and "Not allowed to love" which I can't stress enough how > immense that song is to me. It's one of the finest songs > I've ever heard in my life and always wanted it to be out > there and stuff. > > Well, I'm really glad. And thanks for all the photos and > posts that have been forthcoming. I think I'm just more > relieved than anything else. | |
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