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Post by timshelboy on Jul 7, 2021 17:20:06 GMT
a faithful rendering of this would please me greatly
I would love to have seen the bway production with Bob Fosse. It’s funny to me that Sinatra and Gene KELLY played this role. Both were pretty angry guys whom Hollywood wanted to portray as sweet nice boys. I like Sinatra in this, and of course he has a ball with the score. Rita Hayworth looked too old and Novak could not convince me that she was a singer. The 1957 film is fine but not the film of the show..a lot of the score is junked or used as background music and a Rodgers & Hart best of back catalogue installed. No problem with MY FUNNY VALENTINE - how could I? - but THAT TERRIFIC RAINBOW, LITTLE DEN OF INIQUITY, HAPPY HUNTING HORN, DO IT THE HARD WAY were just dandy as it was... and ZIP got given to the Rita character and the whole Novak part amplified considerably from the stage show to give her a star part (and a happy ending)...... and the racier banter/lyrics toned down a lot (HAPPY HUNTING HORN still sounds obscene to my ears!),,,there's a reason it was known as the X rated musical. I saw Denis Lawson & Sian Phillips play it circa 1980 and rate it thebest night in the theatre I ever had.  :format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2431264-1283689940.jpeg.jpg) My mum raved over Harold Lang & Vivienne Segal from about 1952 ( i have inherited the LP!)Now musicals are back maybe Ryan Gosling or Channing Tatum or my bet Joseph Gordon Levitt. Pfeiffer for Vera? (she survived GREASE 2)
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