Frank Wildhorn
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Waiting For The Moon (2005)
You know, the longer I do this GHM thing, the more Frank Wildhorn comes across as the closest thing America has to Andrew Lloyd Webber. As with ALW he works with a range of lyricists and apparently prefers to constrain them with his melodies (“dancing in chains” as his lyricist here put it). The problem Continue reading
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Bonnie & Clyde (2009)
Gil Hates Musicals reviews “Bonnie & Clyde” (2009), music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Don Black, book by Ivan Menchell. Everyone’s familiar with the famous quote “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a musical in possession of a good soundtrack must be by someone other than Frank Wildhorn”. But it’s easy to forget that Continue reading
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