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Just listening to this now. I haven't seen the movie but it seems interesting, so I'll have to look it up.
Teague, what are your thoughts on the music for "Tangled"? I was re-watching it the other week and started out saying "The problem with this movie is that there's only one song" (because I only remembered "At Last I See the Light"). Halfway through the song my roommate said "There are lots of songs in this." I said "Yeah...but can you remember any of them? What was the melody of the song that JUST finished?" We honestly couldn't recall. So I looked at the credits afterwards to find out who wrote the songs, and was shocked that it was Alan Menken, because usually he's great. What happened there? Is it just me that can't remember any songs from that movie or did Menken drop the ball?
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Well, I can remember "I have a dream" but only because Brad Garrett is hilarious.
But, I do see your point regarding Tangled. I don't really recall any of the music, but given my experience currently with "Frozen" I now find Tangled more endearing.
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I like "When Will My Life Begin" and that's pretty much it. "Mother Knows Best" is a little too dinner-theatre for me, but part of that might be the animated performance. I should listen to it on its own and see if I like the song.
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For the record, Raul Esparza is amazing on Hannibal. He plays Dr. Chilton. He gets some great scenes with Eddie Izzard.
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LatinAlice needs to come to LA so that we can do an incredibly annoying Intermission about musical numbers.
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The "Frozen" thing baffles me too. I liked the movie, and I really liked "Let It Go", because Idina Menzel. "First Time in Forever" is pretty good too, but casting Jonathon Groff and giving him basically nothing to sing was sacrilegious.
I mean it's fine, but it's no Aladdin.
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Into the Woods is two different shows, really, act two reversing the happy theme of act one. That's the POINT of the show, naturally, to give you what happens after "happily ever after", but without an actual act break to let audiences come in and treat the second half as its own thing I wonder how it will be received. I can certainly see DIF tearing the movie apart if they just do the play.
(there is a wonderful video of the original Broadway production, which everyone should check out. When my sister saw it on Broadway, the Witch part was played by the mother from The Cosby Show)
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Fun Fact: There's a "Junior" version of Into The Woods for schools to perform that cuts the entire second act.
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Stage musicals seem to have become harder to adapt, especially if they're more experimental. You have to be willing to be different. When I saw the touring version of Jersey Boys, I thought it would be impossible to do a movie because of how it's structured: basically, the four leads take turns talking to the audience and telling THEIR version of events. The trailer for the new Clint Eastwood film adaptation is out, and, what do you know, he kept all that in.
I may even give it a chance, now.
Annie is one of those musicals which I think ONLY works live. When you see five young girls dancing on stage, it's fun and lively. If you have forty on a screen with lots of cutting because the kids can't really dance, it becomes lifeless.
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Into The Woods is one of the few musicals I would happily see again despite having seen at least 3 different renditions already. It was the first musical I ever saw. It was either the Junior version, or I just got taken home half way through. I still have a framed copy of the poster. Blew my mind when I got the soundtrack later and it had twice as many songs.
Not sure I'm going to see the Disney version if they're making choices like cutting the narrator.
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This movie's a great third position for that audience consent point from the Deceptive Practice / The Imposter Documentality.
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The Podcast mentioned James Randi's book "Flim Flam", but his book "The Faith Healers" covers this subject more thoroughly. He's updated it a few times over the years.
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