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GlindatheGood22 said: "Why did I read this to the tune of "I've Written a Letter to Daddy"?"

Same.

I'm sorry. Totally misread your post.

There's footage out there--or was--of Donna McKechnie from both her original run and her (short) return in the mid-80's, the latter of which I was lucky enough to see--my first Broadway show, to boot.

Wow. As everyone has said, shocking. Seems to have been natural causes, so that's a blessing (no pain, no long term suffering), but death in any manner is a loss. This is a tremendous loss for a great many people. Condolences to her family. 

It's a musical skit for a nightclub stretched to a full Broadway evening. This "Bobby and Jackie and Jack" from Merrily stretched out for two hours.

Still, fun score, barbed humor and gentle romanticism. It belongs on a sound system not a stage, but as a form of home entertainment, it's wonderful.  

I agree.

There's an, I guess, famous anecdote about Sondheim wanting to make a musical out of Sunset Blvd, and Billy Wilder saying "This movie cannot be made into a musical; it can only be done as an opera." I somewhat feel the same way about Spider-Man, not in the sense that the show has to be sung-through but in that fact that the emotions behind the story are so intense.

You can't do a campy Spider-Man, though you can give him humorous lines in his

Nice try dude, but no. I've made the same point from the beginning.

"I'm gonna get the last dis in and run away." Sorry, but no. I made it clear over and over I was talking about rock as a genre of music, not just rock as it relates to Broadway--that indeed, in using rock Broadway doesn't have to feel the need to follow non-rock traditions.

But you're moving  on.That's progress. (FYI, love that you're trying to mimic my own comment to you about your Trumpian denial, as you scamper away.)

No, actually it was my argument, and that quote doesn't demonstrate otherwise. And I've clarified before that I was talking about rock as a general form, not about rock as used in rock musicals. Once again, you're wrong. Own it and move on. Or just move on.

HogansHero said: "well in the musical theatre realm I suggested as a first step looking at the current Tony nominees for best musical, which has sopranos very well represented. If you want to take the next step I think you will find sopranos well represented in musicals in this century. But the other list may be more to the point, which is that sopranos are extremely well represented in the Grammys for rock this year and it is not atypical."

The Tonys are not  w

You haven't presented anything. You said something about sopranos not being "the small minority" I think, but if they are a minority of any kind in the genre, my point stands. 

 

Tough. There aren't many sopranos in rock, it's a voice almost totally out of sympathy with the nature of the form, and all you have to do is look at the history of the genre to see that.

Actually,  I have said I was wrong or don't know about something, so I can't be "a genuine know-it-all of the worst kind." But I won't go along with the pretense that something false is true just because everyone else is playing along, and I won't pretend to

Beetlejuice 

Stop the World and Camelot would be good choices.

I'm disappointed they are doing Into the Woods. Not because Into the Woods isn't a wonderful show, but because it is revived and seen often enough, from professional companies all the way down to high school drama clubs, that it doesn't need an Encores production. The whole point of Encores was to revive shows that hadn't been heard in awhile. 

BrodyFosse123 said: "Streisand wore a body mic in FUNNY GIRL. That was 1964.

Streisand was mic’d forFUNNY GIRLon the stage—which meant all of her costumes were fashioned with a small buttonhole for a microphone to poke through. Ray Diffen, who assisted Irene Sharaff on theFunny Girlcostumes, wrote that “the aerial was wound around her body, the microphone was fixed to her bra and the battery pack was taped to her leg, or the small of her back. The bat

I think you make superb points. Really nicely stated. And I love your insistence on the importance of the humanities. So, so true.

JBroadway said: "I was enjoying the content of your debate before it turned into a pissing contest.

Hogan, if joevitus' "faux pas" was saying that the rock music world is male-heavy, you haven't really offered much in the way of convincing counterarguments. Unless I missed something, the last thing you said on that specific point was to say that "they aren't as big of a minority as you think." But that's not really going to change anyone

No one has said otherwise. Though it's far easier for the average  person to read a play than for the average person to read a score (operatic or otherwise).

I've been waiting for someone to answer this because I think it's an interesting question, but no one has. I'm going to guess and say no. Mostly based on the video recording, where I don't remember ever spotting any. I could be totally wrong about that--I haven't watched the video since the days of videotape. I'm not sure if body mics were all that common in 1984 (although some shows were already utilizing them--Lloyd  Webbe