(TV) RE: Mamma Mia/Lerner & Lowe/Beach Boys/Tommy/Muriel

["Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov>]

>But is it still ok to bash musicals?

I'm a little schizoid when it comes to music---I can appreciate Television and,  
say, PIL , e.g., but I like  old (1950's) musicals that have clever lyrics. 
Lyricists/composers such as Lerner and Lowe or Rodgers and Hammerstein were geniuses. 
See for instance "I'm An Ordinary Man" (aka "Why Can't A Woman Be More Like A Man?") 
from MFL, or "Soliloquy" (aka "My Boy Bill") from Carousel.  

When I was 12-13 I used to play these over and over on my parents' cheap hi fi (80% of which 
consisted of was fake-wood); had to tape 2 pennies to the top of the tone arm as the records 
were worn out. 

Not long afterwards, I went right from show-tunes to the Beach Boys and The Rolling Stones. 
First rock concert I ever attended was the Beach Boys at Boston's Music Hall (now Wang 
Center) then eventually graduated to seeing The Who at the same venue. 

By the way, IMHO the rock-opera "Tommy" is one of the most over-rated , over-blown pieces 
of music ever; I'll take the Who's "Quadraphenia", or Townsend's never completed 
theater/music project called "Lighthouse[??]".

There's actually a very good (and hilarious) Australian movie called "Muriel's Wedding" 
about a young woman, who among other things is obsessed with ABBA and marriage. 

	Leo  

 
-----Original Message-----
From: tv-owner@obbard.com On Behalf Of
Maurice Rickard
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 2:01 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: RE: (TV) Mamma Mia


At 10:55 AM -0700 10/29/04, Phil Obbard wrote:
>Let's keep the political discussion at a minimum

But is it still ok to bash musicals?  If so, I have to side with 
Emilie and Keith on that issue.

Feeling a song coming on,
M
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Maurice Rickard
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