| The Broadwayworld headline for this is extremely misleading and inaccurate | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 08:20 am EDT 09/26/24 | |
| In reply to: “Gypsy” and orchestration restorations. - kieran 01:42 pm EDT 09/22/24 | |
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| The Broadwayworld headline is "GYPSY Will Feature Music Broadway Hasn't Heard Since 1959." Nowhere in the interview with Andy Einhorn there does he make this claim, which is not justified at all by what he discusses in the interview. Restoration of the original orchestrations, which I don't think are all that different from what was heard in the Broadway revivals, will not constitute "music Broadway hasn't heard since 1959." Mozart completely re-orchestrated Handel's Messiah, but I don't think he would have claimed that his complete re-orchestration constituted music not previously heard. Don Walker, with the help of Robert Ginzler and Irwin Kostal, completely re-orchestrated Pal Joey and On Your Toes when they were revived on Broadway in the 1950s. They would never have suggested that those completely new orchestrations constituted new music. (There was new dance music in the Pal Joey revival, but that's a different matter.) In addition, on an even more minor point, the original production of Gypsy closed in 1961, so if music not heard since the original production closed were going to be in this production, the year in the headline should have been 1961, not 1959. (Look at the headline. Historical news is being made!) If it's true, as andPeggy states, that the songs will be up a third, that would pretty much negate any claims for authenticity that Andy Einhorn does seem to be putting forth. Chromolume rightly raises the question of whether Rose's songs will be up a third from the 1959 opening-night keys or from the published and licensed keys. I'll add that if Sid Ramin and Robert Ginzler had orchestrated Rose's songs in keys that were a third higher than the opening night keys, they almost certainly would have made different choices in some places. Just to be clear, it's not that I object to keys being changed (although Rose's songs may sound kind of odd if the keys are up a third). It's done all the time in revivals of musicals and sometimes with replacements during original runs, often with the blessing and cooperation of the composer. Sometimes it's done in opera. It's just that a production can't claim that it will be musically authentic in an unprecedented way if it also does that. |
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