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Musicals are the sort of thing where you have to be there to get the full experience, much like opera I suspect.
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I saw Les Mis live a few years ago and really enjoyed it but have no interest if it comes on the radio. Off to see Shakespeare again in March, Antony and Cleopatra, live performance done well is a thing of joy to me even when I don't know what's going on.
as for the OP, go take your family to see La La Land.
it or magnificent, they will love you for it.
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That Bjorling performance (and his performance of Nessun Dorma) are wonderful and I wouldn't have heard them if it wasn't for @Gassage posting them a while back. Cheers matey.
The closest performance I've seen to "religious" was seeing Jeff Beck play Angel (footsteps) from about 10 feet away.
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Have to say I was a bit wierded out by the Moulin Rouge /Ewan McGregor thing
I'm with the OP. I hate it. I hate it ALL. What gets me most is the way the dancers walk away after a routine with some sort of weird straight legged prancy skip walk.
One of my biggest film disappointments was watching Sweeney Todd. Oh goody a gritty Victorian murder romp with lots gore I though to myself, oh wait WTF why is Johnny Depp singing? Fuck it off.
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@robinbowes wouldn't give these recordings houseroom, they're THAT compressed.
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I love musicals. Some aren't my cup of tea I guess but I generally enjoy them and often listen to the soundtracks. I was just listening to "Hello, my name is Elder Price..."
I guess the music is a pretty specific format. You can't have a musical song that's just a handful of repeated lines like with pop music, some effort needs to be put into a clear narrative and I dig that. Most of the bands I really like are quite lyrical.
Generally, I'm more than happy to listen to old recordings of the greats - a great musical performance is not masked by the limitations of the audio. For example, this is my favourite performance of Rach 2:
On the original topic, I'm ambivalent about musical theatre. Generally, it needs to be viewed in context, ie. in the theatre. I'm a big opera fan though.
Oh, and one of the most sublime experiences of my life was seeing Cecilia Bartoli sing live - simply wonderful.
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He was reputed to have had the most enormous hands and fingers and wrote accordingly - very difficult for all but especially women pianists ....quite normally sections are re-arranged/voiced to accommodate and make them playable
Labeck twins have played some interesting Arrangements
More recently, I saw Katia on tour in support of her "Unspoken" album. The live band featured Viktoria Mullova (a fantastic violinist who I've been a fan of for years) and Fred Frith (who I had not heard before - crazy guitarist, played with Henry Cow).
Ah, great memories...
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