NAPOLEON
NAPOLEON
#1NAPOLEON
Posted: 4/1/15 at 6:42pm
Reading all of the posts about DOCTOR ZHIVAGO made me remember a Canadian musical about the life of Napoleon...called NAPOLEON. I thought the score was really beautiful; hantingly so in many instances.
The show was actually produced in London. I saw it at the Shaftsbury and was disappointed. Did anyone else see this show in either Toronto or London? Curious as to what people here thought of it...or the score, which was preserved on CD.
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#3NAPOLEON
Posted: 4/2/15 at 11:26am
The designs (the mirrors/costumes) and even a lot of the staging in London was fantastic. The music is wonderful and rousing, but wow.. those lyrics are atrocious. I think they could never agree on the tone of Josephine (the woman who plays it in Toronto seemed a lot warmer than the bitter-cold Anastasia Barzee in London).
Tim Williams has taken a better career move and is scoring films. "Sweet Victory Divine," "On That First Night," "The Dream Within," and "Waiting and Hoping" are great musically (but plenty of cringe-worthy, amateur lyrics). If anyone is curious, Tim started a website for Napoleon with various recordings of the songs, and included is a full soundboard of the London production. He really did some great underscoring work over there.
#4NAPOLEON
Posted: 4/2/15 at 1:25pm
This was created by two guys who were a year or two older than my brother at his school and somewhat family aquantances growing up in Victoria BC. So the local media was all over it--proclaiming it the new Les Miz, etc. I actually never did track down a copy, although (honestly, even as a young teen it didn't appeal,) though our library had a casette I remember... Funny--I had completely forgotten about it. I'll have to search for that website.
