| re: LOVE LIFE recordings | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:59 pm EDT 08/06/24 | |
| In reply to: LOVE LIFE recordings - BroadwayTonyJ 03:41 pm EDT 08/06/24 | |
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| The first Opera North production, the one that was broadcast, restored "The Locker Room," which had been cut out of town. I like parts of the sequence, although it really doesn't make sense in the script that opened on Broadway in 1948. So restoring it is probably a mistake. It was also restored in the earlier University of Michigan production, but that production rightly didn't restore all of it. Some of it is fun, or at least it's fun if it's well-performed (it wasn't well-performed in the Opera North production), but some of it is very weak. Also, that Opera North production for some reason put together a new prelude out of underscoring and stuff, some of which I think had been cut. The actual prelude is much better. After a rather brief slow start based on a phrase in "Here I'll Stay," it moves to the "Minstrel Parade." So it's mostly uptempo, and I think it's a much better setup for the show that follows. The leads in the Opera North production were pretty good for opera singers trying to do a Broadway musical, but they weren't really right for it. The whole thing is a bit lumbering. |
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