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HAPPY SONGS FOR DARK TIMES #4: The “HAPPY” Happy Songs
If I was hopeful that the dark times might brighten after the Orange Menace was evicted by the people, well, those hopes look if not dashed, surely bruised and battered on the floor. Homegrown fascism and bigotry have only more … Continue reading →
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WEDDING MUSIC – 25 Years Together, 20 Years Married
“So, where did the two of you meet?” we are often asked. “In the back of a Greyhound bus,” we respond by rote, and await the inevitable follow up question. It was exactly 25 years ago, April 25, 1993, on … Continue reading →
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NfaC Double Repost: BREAKING INTO SONG IN MUSICALS
Time for another Notes from a Composer rerun, or repost, this time a double feature from last April on the convention of breaking into song in musicals, and how cleverly the movie version of Cabaret subverted that convention. This post … Continue reading →
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How Cabaret circumvented the “characters breaking into song” musical trope
When people who say they hate musicals explain why they hate musicals they usually fall back on this well-worn reason: it is unrealistic that characters just break into song and dance; this doesn’t happen in “real life”. I find this … Continue reading →
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