rec.arts.theatre.musicals

"robert armstrong" wrote in message
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> conrad writes:
>
>>>I don't know that you can call it anything so grand
>>>as "the structure of the story". However, "Liliom"
>>>does begin with the same scene in mime.
>
>>Well, that's all that I meant. The scene was there,
>>waiting to be turned into a musically underscored
>>one.
>
> I think what Kennedy meant was that the Molnar script of Liliom calls
> for ethereal spooky carnival music before the curtain goes up, pretty
> much as the musical Carousel realizes it. In other words all productions
> of Liliom, straight or, uh, otherwise, involve musical underscoring.
>
> Bob A
>
> "Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
>
In the production I did of CAROUSEL, we used the full overture with open
stage (carousel horse included) and a dance-like action on stage to tell the
story up to the point where the musical begins. It was quite lovely.
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Moni (fmomoon)
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