Aspects of Love- Page 2
Aspects of Love
TxTwoStep
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/24/03
#25re: re: Aspects of Love Broadway
Posted: 9/17/03 at 3:50pm
i saw the original in London; i would have liked to have seen the originally intended star, Roger Moore, but the lead they got was pretty good. It's true, for me at least, that Crumb and Ball had amazing voices. The second female lead was also wonderfully effective, and her big funeral number (at least in the West End staging) was a highlight. i found the young girl's duet with Ball's character (MERMAID) very moving and musically interesting. The repetitive score doesn't bother me, and ALW knows his way around a melody and a modulation, just like Puccini did.
i would like to have seen the supposedly "smaller scale" chamber music version, which i believe had a smaller cast, and possibly a small tour out of Canada. Has anyone seen this version? i could have the facts on it wrong. But it did sound interesting.
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DofB5
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#26 Aspects of Love Broadway
Posted: 9/17/03 at 8:40pm
I have to say that I also have the CD but think I only listened to it once or twice--it just didn't grab me. Guess I'll have to pull it back out of mothballs and give it another go.
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John4763
Stand-by Joined: 5/16/03
#27Aspects of Love
Posted: 9/18/03 at 7:48pm
Maybe I'm wrong.
But I really thought it was John Cullum playing the older guy (the dad? uncle?) who shows up unexpectedly at the house where Michael Ball and his girlfriend were expecting to have a weekend all to themselves?
Am I thinking of the wrong show?
Musetta1957
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#28re: Aspects of Love
Posted: 9/18/03 at 10:22pm
That's the show, and role. (George Dillingham.)
But Kevin Colson was the OLC/OBC George.
jakebloke
Broadway Star Joined: 5/29/03
#29re: re: Aspects of Love
Posted: 9/18/03 at 10:54pmI encourage anyone who has it and only listened to it once or twice to give it another shot. I love it. I saw it in Australia, and it was beautiful. Some of ALW's best melodies in my opinion....even if you're not an ALW fan.
tpdc
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/03
#30Aspects of Love
Posted: 9/22/03 at 3:45pmTxTwoStep, the smaller chamber version of ASPECTS was wonderful. Robin Phillips spare, theatrical production made quite a strong case for the material. It got a nice review from some critics. I expected to hate the show and ended up liking it quite a bit. But I do feel ALW was stingy with the tunes. To have the big production numbers be the same tune in each act just felt lazy to me. If the repetition was important, then the writers failed to justify it. Ron Bohmer was quite sexy in the Ball role and sang wonderfully. Barrie Ingham was his funny and charming self in the Colson part.
