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Dec 29^th, 2008 at 10:14pm

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Someday I need to see this... it's got some amazing poetry and monologues in it as well.

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Reply #1 - Jan 5^th, 2009 at 5:45pm

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Here, for any who would like the music. This is all 10 tracks.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PPIOORHG

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Reply #2 - Jan 9^th, 2009 at 9:04am

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Hedgehog wrote on Dec 29^th, 2008 at 10:14pm:

Finally received the soundtrack to this today. It's amazing... honestly touched me.

But since I can't post an actual mp3, here's a youtube clip of my favorite song from it "My Brother Lived in San Francisco"

Someday I need to see this... it's got some amazing poetry and monologues in it as well.

SN's cranky review...with apologies to Hedgehog

Hmmm...gave it a listen and here are my thoughts. �Mind you, this is only about the music. �Perhaps in a performance, with the monologues, my opinion would be slightly different.

Anyway, maybe I'm jaded but it seems to me that this musical does for musical theatre what an Orrin Hatch/Janice Kapp Perry collaboration does for Christmas music. �

The tunes are largely generic, the lyrics are trite and predictable (I started playing "guess the rhyme" about halfway through and was right about 60% of the time...not to mention how disappointed I was when the other 40% of the time, my outlandish guess would have made a better lyric.) �

But I think my biggest complaint is the overall sound of the piece. �I swear it's all elevator music! �And call me cynical, but a musical that pays tribute to "Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens" ravaged by AIDS should probably be orchestrated with something other than a string quartet and a piano. �Imagine if the band for RENT had used a harp instead of the percussion and swapped the electric bass for a cello. �

Understanding the background of the piece, it seems almost sacrilege to be so critical, but there have been so many moving and effective theatre pieces written in response to the AIDS crisis. �Sadly, this isn't one of them.

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Reply #3 - Jan 10^th, 2009 at 12:00am

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Well to clarify, it's the show itself I like, not necessarily these tracks. In fact, Carnegie Melon does nearly every song so so SO much better than these ones. But this was the cheapest cd available... and I'm half Jew.

I think context and such DO help, but also I think the songs are better than these arrangements and even talent. As for the elevator sound, well, I guess that's your opinion which you're welcome to

I find it more like Jason Robert Brown stuff... but that is MY opinion.

And I've moved on to "The Glorious Ones" I guess

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Reply #4 - Jan 10^th, 2009 at 12:02am

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SN wrote on Jan 9^th, 2009 at 9:04am:

Anyway, maybe I'm jaded but it seems to me that this musical does for musical theatre what an Orrin Hatch/Janice Kapp Perry collaboration does for Christmas music. �

THIS made me snort very loudly Cheesy

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Reply #5 - Jan 12^th, 2009 at 10:09am

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Hedgehog wrote on Jan 10^th, 2009 at 12:02am:

SN wrote on Jan 9^th, 2009 at 9:04am:

Anyway, maybe I'm jaded but it seems to me that this musical does for musical theatre what an Orrin Hatch/Janice Kapp Perry collaboration does for Christmas music. �

THIS made me snort very loudly Cheesy

Mission accomplished. What's the point of being a would-be critic if one can't at least be entertaining when he doesn't care for a piece?

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