| re: First Concept Musical? | |
| Last Edit: AlanScott 01:50 pm EST 11/12/24 | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:46 pm EST 11/12/24 | |
| In reply to: re: First Concept Musical? - PlayWiz 12:22 pm EST 11/12/24 | |
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| Sondheim once said or wrote that he thought it was As Thousands Cheer. I think it must have been in an interview that he said it. I think it's important to remember that neither Sondheim nor Prince ever described their shows as concept musicals. I don't think they especially liked the term or found it particularly useful, although Sondheim did answer a question about it in at least one interview. And in Finishing the Hat he mentioned it as an early possible example. On the same page (166), however, he wrote that the term was "a meaningless umbrella term used to describe this amalgam of old forms." Martin Gottfried (who I think was a jerk) came up with the term. Since the term does exist and people use it, I would say that the first two, happening around the same time, would probably have been, as BroadwayTonyJ said, Love Life and Allegro. |
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