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rockfenris2005 04:29 pm UTC 01/01/10 |
| In reply to: | re: Happy New Decade! - Marklbetya 02:52 pm UTC 01/01/10 |
Really? I thought there were a lot of interesting scores from that decade, some of them favourites of mine. "The Secret Garden" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" were quite good, "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King" which I admit were Disney films first but the music and the spectacle are just as brilliant as anything from the 1980s, "Jekyll & Hyde" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel" from Frank Wildhorn and "Pimpernel" is the only other score aside from "My Fair Lady" where I enjoy all of the songs, "Ragtime" which would have won the Tony had it not have been produced in the same season as "The Lion King", sigh, and "Marie Christine". Oh, and "Titanic" of course, my favourite score by Maury Yeston who also wrote the beautiful "Grand Hotel". Away from Broadway, it's a shame "Whistle down the Wind" didn’t make it as that, in my opinion, has some of the best work from Andrew and Jim ever, and "Tanz" of course. I never liked "Rent". Compare that to this decade, even Disney produced such clunkers as "Tarzan" and "The Little Mermaid" and Frank Wildhorn’s only Broadway production was the hideous "Dracula" (which, DOTV all over again, was magnificent in Austria). "Wicked" and "Billy Elliot" are good but they're nowhere near "Titanic" and "The Secret Garden" for me, or even "Sunset Boulevard". Re: Cult of Byron, yes, it was great to see more productions of "Tanz" but wouldn't it have been nicer if we got to see other Steinman musicals too? I think "Garbo" could have been fixed and Warner Brown did write the successful "Walking with Dinosaurs" show. > The decade sucked for a lot of reasons (and you forgot to > add Jim's Health and the election of Obama), but at least > I (and many others) got to meet Jim for the first time, > and "Wicked" made musical theater worth while for the > decade. I don't think anything close to being of value > came out of the 90's, which was by FAR the worst decade > every for Broadway. Rent is the only possible contender > that wasn't a remake, and that sucked. > > > Yeah, it really has been the decade from hell, hasn’t it? > > George W. Bush for President, September 11 World Trade > > Center bombings, 2 wars, the tsunamis, the rise of Reality > > TV, the worst decade of pop music ever even worse than the > > 90s, the worst decade for musical theatre ever with shows > > like "The Producers", "Wicked" and "Spamalot" being the > > only real spectacular hits of the decade... > > | |
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