rec.arts.theatre.musicals

chromolume wrote:

You may be right. There is a song in the beginning that is very Gilbert
and Sullivan patter-like, and ever a short barbershop quartet number.
But usually when i walk out of a show, I am humming one of the songs and
that just didn't happen for me this time. Perhaps because of the over
familiarity with Puttin on the Ritz.

Understand--I really enjoyed the show and will be seeing it a couple of
times more while it is here and think it is actually, in a "Mel Boooks"
way funnier than the Producers. For some reason the songs in the
Producers resonated more with me and seemed more memorable.


> Tim - I should add that "Puttin' On The Ritz" isn't what I would think
> of as an automatically "memorable" tune on first hearing either - you
> might get the gist of the repetitions in the melody, and you might
> remember the title "hook," but you'd surely want to hear that rhythm a
> number of times before it became "memorable" to the ears/brain. The
> only reason you're saying that tune is more "memorable" than the NEW
> songs you heard for the first time in YF is because you're heard
> "Ritz" before, probably many times. If you were hearing it for the
> first time as part of a new score, I'm pretty damn sure you would
> include that song in the "not memorable" category.