Word: musics
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...touch with something real." The song "Send in the Clowns" contains not just pretty lyrics, but musings perfectly pitched for the character of Desirée, a glamorous actress pushing 40 and facing what may be her last chance for love. "The cadence, the vocabulary, the incidences in the music, a pause he's written in" - all conspire to create minutely observed characters, says Nunn...
...first five days of Night Music rehearsals, Nunn had the cast speak - not sing - the lyrics. He found that, unlike the numbers in most musicals, they didn't stop the show, but rather carried it on, each song a little scene in its own right, deepening the characters while advancing the plot. "I approach characters like an actor approaches them," says Sondheim. "With the risk of only slight exaggeration, by the time I have written a score I know the book better than the author does. I've examined every word, and why [a character] says...
...know who else theater companies say that about?" asks Night Music director Nunn. "Chekhov." When it comes to Sondheim, debate about the future of the musical misses the point. He occupies a place in the pantheon not of musical theater, but of theater itself...
...need of talent - and believing popular kids will help recruitment - he plunders the football team for Finn Hudson (Cory Monteith), a quarterback with a secret penchant for singing in the shower. Will pairs him with his female lead, Rachel Berry (Lea Michele), a diminutive, driven diva who's the musical equivalent of Election's high school politician Tracy Flick. Upset that her glee mates are not taking their music seriously enough, she lectures them: "There is nothing ironic about show choir...
...upbeat chorus number set to Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" is the funniest thing I've seen on TV this year. But this raises the question of how good a match it really is for the Idol audience, who tend to like their glitter dreams earnest. Indeed, the jock-meets-music-geek pair-up is a straight lift from, and parody...