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Conas 02:25 am UTC 03/12/11 |
| In reply to: | Revisiting The Confidence Man - Croftie 09:41 pm UTC 03/07/11 |
| I hope I won't be shot for saying this but "The Confidence Man" did absolutely nothing for me. I never thought it was that good at all. People on here seem to like it, but to me it's a very average musical. Jim's music was different in it, but to me it wasn't superb. > So today I dug out my old CD of The Confidence Man. The > show is a constant delight and certainly, I feel, a lost > jewel in the history of American theatre. > > Jim's music - although more eclectic and different in > atmosphere to most of his work - is superb, but perhaps > outshone by some of Ray's intelligent, beautiful, poetic, > lyrics: > > 'On a wave of tender power we'll be carried through the > night, > Spending hour after hour 'til forever is in sight, > Oh think of what we have — what we have and all I'm > feeling > Isn't as revealing as when night comes stealing in...' > > It's hard to see lines like this not being an influence on > the evolution of Jim's lyrics. For instance: Life is a > sandwich with nothin' between it = Life is a Lemon and I > want my money back...?? > > There's also room for a lot of the music to still be > recycled. The moody first half of Edging Into Darkness and > the ecstatic melody from Masquerade have the potential, I > think, to be moulded into a great future Steinsong. Who > knows, perhaps they have already... > > | |
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