What is your one true recording?
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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Dana - Jan 11, 2013 6:35:53 am PST #23361 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Steph L. - Jan 11, 2013 6:44:31 am PST #23362 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
The London cast. And, honestly, I think it's my one true recording because it was the first one I ever heard. I was 17, and I don't think I realized there might even be more than one cast recording. I listened to it incessantly before I found out there was a Broadway cast recording. When I listened to that one, I had already burned the London cast into my brain, and nothing else has ever sounded right to me.
Jessica - Jan 11, 2013 6:46:34 am PST #23363 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
and the first shot of Jackman made me yell "Wolverine!"
Like he did?
(In my head, the last bit of this song is sung to the tune of "Who Am I?" because I assume the only reason it wasn't really done that way was copyright.)
Steph L. - Jan 11, 2013 6:57:02 am PST #23364 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Like he did?
Hah. Not quite so melodious.
Also, I had never heard him sing before (having not seen Les Miz yet), and he's pretty good. (But Colm Wilkinson is still an impossible act to follow.)
Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2013 4:35:56 pm PST #23365 of 30000
brillig
The only bits of Les Miz that I've heard are passing phrases from commercials or stories about the show. I've never heard any of the songs all the way through. I guess I'll fix that some day.
Juliebird - Jan 11, 2013 4:48:02 pm PST #23366 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
My boss, who claims to have hated the Broadway show, went to see the movie and hated that too. Um, did you go to see it just so that you had first-person evidence that you hated that as well?
Which brings me to the concept that I've heard about here and there (maybe mostly here) about musicial theatre buffs not considering Les Miz to be good, or a worthy musical, or a real musical, or whatnot, and I'm curious as to the what and why and wherefore. Especially since I feel like it's a golden standard.
Is it too serious and pretty? Is it not weird or experimental enough? /spent a weekend with anarchists who think it's perfectly natural to sit in a bar for a band called Snacks serving inedible snacks and playing dissonant and unharmonious music and enjoying the humor of the horror of the situation (they hated the music, but appreciated the experience. I am a heathen, because bwuh?). //can of worms
Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2013 4:55:28 pm PST #23367 of 30000
brillig
Sound like Dadaists.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 11, 2013 5:00:57 pm PST #23368 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
From my perspective, it isn't musical theatre buffs considering les mis to be sub par, it is theatre people thinking musical theatre/popular theatre is lesser than srs bizness theatre, evidenced by liking Les Mis.
Juliebird - Jan 11, 2013 5:09:56 pm PST #23369 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Okay, but why does Les Miz seem to be the example? Why not by liking Phantom, or Spamalot, or Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?
Hil R. - Jan 11, 2013 5:11:49 pm PST #23370 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I usually see either Phantom or Cats used as the example of over-the-top eighties musicals.