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rockfenris2005 01:19 pm UTC 01/03/08 |
| In reply to: | re: The Confidence Man? - Smeghead 12:25 pm UTC 01/03/08 |
I've heard/seen tonnes of musicals, and I fkn LOVE the book & lyrics for "The Confidence Man". The wordplay is exquisite, the rhyming is divine, and the story always left me on the edge of my seat. I think TCM gets "bad press" because the original book was so cold and confusing. I tried to read the original book and I gave up, more or less 6/7 chapters into it. I love the script, always have, always will. I think it would have been successful in 1960s/70s era Broadway, but not so much today with all the movie musicals, and stuff like "Spring Awakening" (which Jim and Ray were *ACTUALLY* going to work on at some point!! Which would have been totally fking crazy!!) I like the new idea, as a selling point. What I don't like about TCM is Jim's sometimes "failing to live up to" Ray's lyrics. I think another composer could do a much better job than Jim, or I think Jim could write at least 3 new tunes. There are too many reprises in the 2nd act. There needed to be a song for TCM, an "I want" song of sorts, and a Melville soliloquy. On the whole, I'm a fan of the musical and I believe it can be done if it has a really capitol production team. I would have liked to have seen your attempt with a $15 million budget. > I think the new idea is not my type of thing. Ray wants > his daughter to write the new script with the Confidence > Man travelling down to New Orleans for some type of > disaster relief paralleling the Katrina disaster. I think > it adds an unecessary layer and seems to be more Bush > Bashing than proper script. But of course I'd have to see > it. I never understood what was so hard to understand > about the story. I fully understood it the first time I > heard the Queens College audio recording with no visuals > to go along with it. > > > > > > I don't, the story's too complicated for people to fully > > > follow. > > > > I've never gotten through the full book. I enjoyed the > > script. Ray's daughter had a brilliant idea which I > > thought could have made it really something special, or > > definitely something more than it was? Though I like it > > was, it's just that it has to find a particular niche in > > NYC. | |
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