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Phantom – The American Musical (1993)
Hmmm. OK. Regular readers will know I have a bit of a blind spot when it comes to Maury Yeston musicals. They just don’t suit me, let’s put it like that. He can definitely write nice music, but I’m not convinced that he can write a gripping musical. This is his version of the Phantom Continue reading
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Saturday Night (1955)
This was Sondheim’s first music-and-lyrics show that was intended to be performed (as opposed to the four assignments he got from his mentor Oscar Hammerstein). But unfortunately, 1954 was a bad year for producers dying, and so this show only came to life over forty years later in concert performances. It often sounds old. In Continue reading
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The Threepenny Opera (1928)
Laurie Anderson has a song called “Difficult Listening Hour”. That phrase kept surfacing in my mind like a bad (three)penny while I was listening to this. This show dates from 1928 and was written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, lifting the plot from an 18th century English show called “The Beggar’s Opera”. It’s about Continue reading
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