| re: Michael Crawford And The Wizard Of Oz | |
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steven_stuart 03:18 am UTC 01/09/11 |
| In reply to: | re: Michael Crawford And The Wizard Of Oz - rockfenris2005 04:28 pm UTC 01/06/11 |
| > I would have preferred if he'd written a complete score, > with Tim Rice, instead of adding songs to the classic MGM > favourite, but ah well. That would have been a huge gamble. As Tremolor pointed out, they need "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" and "Follow The Yellow Brick Road" to safely "cash in". Their gamble will be expanding the role of the Wizard for Michael Crawford and giving him new songs to sing. Do you think they will have success with that plan? There could be a new "Wizard of Oz" which explores a side of Baum's original story that the film ignores. To quote Wikipedia (again, sorry): "Historians, economists and literary scholars have examined and developed possible political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. However, the majority of the reading public simply takes the story at face value." Maybe if ALW and Tim Rice were still in "Evita" mode. Perhaps Sondheim could write a compicated, darker "Wizard". Or would that be too much like "Into The Woods"? | |
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