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the music man
1. no, no -- the line is "i don't believe i dropped it."
2. it really sucks that the station keeps shrinking the picture to tell me about tomorrow's school closings. can't they do that in the (also annoying) commercials?
3. i didn't believe "trouble." he wasn't pretend-indignant enough. that wasn't harold hill; it was ferris bueller.
4. i'm all for racial diversity, but this is the Look At Us We're Affirmative Action The Music Man; there's been precisely one black person in each number so far (except "trouble", which had two -- a mother and son in the same shot), prominently placed for maximum Don't Call Us Lily-White effect. [yawn.]
5. i love tommy djilas. every time i see this show, i adore him. [g]
6. this is what happens when you have a harold hill who can't tap and a whole posse of kids who can.
7. these guys, the school board -- they can't all be this young.
8. i never much liked "my white knight" when i was a kid, but the older i get, the more it grows on me.
9. i'm always puzzled by "the wells fargo wagon" -- people are talking about their grey mackinacs and bathtubs and packages of salmon like they were utter surprises that arrived with the wells fargo wagon. i mean, didn't the guy order the cross-cut saw from montgomery ward?
9a. and even when i didn't care for "my white knight", the best thing in the whole show was always the tiny orchestral echo of it after winthrop gets his cornet and says "sister, sister, isn't this the most scrumptious solid-gold thing you ever saw?"
10. i read somewhere that wilson had "lida rose" lying around in a drawer, came across it while he was wrapping up the music man, and said to himself, "i could use that in the new play. of course, i'd need a barbershop quartet ..." and then went back and wrote in the school board and all their stuff just so he could use "lida rose" here in the second act. (grr.)
11. "shipoopi," on the other hand, has never struck me as good for anything but a dance showcase. and don't the dancers have plenty to do anyway? i guess marcellus needs a solo number.
12. i like this girl playing marian, but i have two issues with her. she's quite pretty (and looks familiar to me for some reason ...), and i feel like marian ought to be sort of plain; and occasionally her voice gets a little belter-y, which is all wrong for the part.
13. he's giving a decent performance, but matthew broderick is never going to look a day over twenty; he looks like harold hill's apprentice.
well, that was cute. not bad, but i've certainly seen better. i didn't see the broadway revival, but the music on that recording is freakin' dynamite; and i saw a production up at the stratford festival five or six years ago that was just superb (a harold hill who could both sing and dance?! what a concept!).
2. it really sucks that the station keeps shrinking the picture to tell me about tomorrow's school closings. can't they do that in the (also annoying) commercials?
3. i didn't believe "trouble." he wasn't pretend-indignant enough. that wasn't harold hill; it was ferris bueller.
4. i'm all for racial diversity, but this is the Look At Us We're Affirmative Action The Music Man; there's been precisely one black person in each number so far (except "trouble", which had two -- a mother and son in the same shot), prominently placed for maximum Don't Call Us Lily-White effect. [yawn.]
5. i love tommy djilas. every time i see this show, i adore him. [g]
6. this is what happens when you have a harold hill who can't tap and a whole posse of kids who can.
7. these guys, the school board -- they can't all be this young.
8. i never much liked "my white knight" when i was a kid, but the older i get, the more it grows on me.
9. i'm always puzzled by "the wells fargo wagon" -- people are talking about their grey mackinacs and bathtubs and packages of salmon like they were utter surprises that arrived with the wells fargo wagon. i mean, didn't the guy order the cross-cut saw from montgomery ward?
9a. and even when i didn't care for "my white knight", the best thing in the whole show was always the tiny orchestral echo of it after winthrop gets his cornet and says "sister, sister, isn't this the most scrumptious solid-gold thing you ever saw?"
10. i read somewhere that wilson had "lida rose" lying around in a drawer, came across it while he was wrapping up the music man, and said to himself, "i could use that in the new play. of course, i'd need a barbershop quartet ..." and then went back and wrote in the school board and all their stuff just so he could use "lida rose" here in the second act. (grr.)
11. "shipoopi," on the other hand, has never struck me as good for anything but a dance showcase. and don't the dancers have plenty to do anyway? i guess marcellus needs a solo number.
12. i like this girl playing marian, but i have two issues with her. she's quite pretty (and looks familiar to me for some reason ...), and i feel like marian ought to be sort of plain; and occasionally her voice gets a little belter-y, which is all wrong for the part.
13. he's giving a decent performance, but matthew broderick is never going to look a day over twenty; he looks like harold hill's apprentice.
well, that was cute. not bad, but i've certainly seen better. i didn't see the broadway revival, but the music on that recording is freakin' dynamite; and i saw a production up at the stratford festival five or six years ago that was just superb (a harold hill who could both sing and dance?! what a concept!).