| re: Listening to HERE WE ARE... |
| Posted by: ilw 09:36 pm EDT 05/18/24 |
| In reply to: Listening to HERE WE ARE... - peter3053 05:25 pm EDT 05/17/24 |
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I saw Here We Are twice at The Shed, and listened to the cast album today. As a Sondheim fan for many years, I am sad that I found little to enjoy in this show or the recording. There are a few musical passages here and there that have the Sondheim magic, but most of it feels like retreads or the initial sketches of a score that never got written. The recording is padded with lots of dialogue and underscoring, which I was already tired of after a single listen.
I appreciate the effort that went into giving the last score of a musical genius a beautiful production with a stellar cast and a complete audio recording, but reading the defensive liner notes written by Sondheim's collaborators makes me think that they also realize that there really isn't much here to celebrate. Still, it's hard to argue with their statement: "Were we supposed to just ditch all his work? Lock away what a great and perpetually game-changing American artist had had on his mind during the last years of his life?" |
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