| re: musicals which borrow from other musicals | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:45 pm EDT 09/30/24 | |
| In reply to: re: musicals which borrow from other musicals - Chromolume 08:33 pm EDT 09/30/24 | |
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| Well, Calamity Jane has been said to have been created by Warner Brothers as a sort of copycat version of Annie Get Your Gun. it's easy to see general similarities, but I don't know the degree to which copying Annie Get Your Gun was a conscious decision. But, like you, I don't get the other two pairs. Seesaw used a cut song from Sweet Charity (easy enough since the same composer and lyricist wrote the two scores) and both take place partly in the Times Square area, and both are stories in which the girl and the guy end up not together, but otherwise I don't see the borrowings. Oh, I suppose the heroines of both are dancers, but they're hardly the same type of dancers. And I also don't get what Camelot borrows from My Fair Lady except two performers and I suppose a non-singing male lead, although I would say that Burton sings rather more than Harrison did. It's Gigi that I thinnk has much more often been said to have borrowed from My Fair Lady, and there certainly are some similarities, including a cut song from MFL being used in Gigi, but I tend to think that too much has been made of the similarities in plot. |
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