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Ragtime: What other composers auditioned?
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#25re: Ragtime: What other composers auditioned?
Posted: 12/12/05 at 7:21pm
Only Bernstein could have done justice to RAGTIME's epic themes and and would have accomplished it with passion, melody and style, unlike the soulless and unmemorable bombast that currently passes for the score.
Vivian Darkbloom
Ramsdale, New England
#26re: Ragtime: What other composers auditioned?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 1:14am
I rank RAGTIME as the best score of the past 10 years. That's not saying much but nothing has come along since to remotely challenge it.
And even more surprising: it was in excellent shape when it premiered here in Toronto in December 1996. There were very few changes made between Toronto and the New York premiere.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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#27re: Ragtime: What other composers auditioned?
Posted: 12/13/05 at 1:22am
I like it as is, so I kind of have a hard time picturing it differently but JRB probably would have written something similiar to what was written.
I love the original novel.
yr ronin,
joey
joey
