| re: eventually don't composer have to settle with the album tempos being the standard? | |
| Posted by: peter3053 05:23 pm EST 01/03/25 | |
| In reply to: eventually don't composer have to settle with the album tempos being the standard? - Chazwaza 04:34 pm EST 01/03/25 | |
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| I'm fairly sure that "Worst Pies in London" and the Act Two reprise of "Johanna", in Sweeney Todd, for example, were slower in the theater than on the album. The visual - not to mention an actor's ability to handle the stage business - tend to compensate for slower tempi; and usually those same visuals and stage businesses make up in audience satisfaction. Also, as aleady mentioned above, records had limited lengths on each side. Sometimes, on an album, too slow a tempo kills the effect you had in the theater. On a related point, I noted at the Wicked film how the important transition of relationship at the OzDust Ballroom took forever, with close ups, reaction shots etc. It's interesting how much can be accomplished in the theater so quickly compared to films, where all that "reality" in the camera's view has to be accommodated, and the visual logic has to be spelled out. |
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