CARRIE: The Musical premiered exactly 25 years ago today! Happy Mother’s Day!
“Prologue (Little Shop of Horrors)” from LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Sung by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman on the original composers demo.
After a screening of the director’s cut of Frank Oz’s LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at the 50th New York Film Festival, composer Alan Menken surprised the audience by performing a medley from the movie, including “Suddenly Seymour,” “Prologue / Little Shop of Horrors,” “Dentist!” and “Mean Green Mother From Outer Space” on the stage of the Walter Reade Theater, accompanied by composer Alan Menken!
Here’s a glimpse of the new Stephen King musical. Uh-huh. MUSICAL — with contributions from Texas stars T Bone Burnett and Matthew McConaughey.
“A New Life” from JEKYLL & HYDE
Sung by Emmy Raver-Lampman (u/s Lucy) in the 2012/13 Pre-Broadway National Tour.
JEKYLL & HYDE Pre-Broadway Tour Quick Review
It kinda felt like I was watching a show at Universal Studios. Lots of visual and sound effects, but the show itself was a mess. They made a ton of unnecessary changes to many of the songs, and the ‘rock’ arrangements are kind of hit-or-miss. Also, the book is just BAD. But there were some nice moments, and I didn’t dislike Constantine Maroulis as much as I was expecting to (though his British accent was awful). Saw the understudy for Lucy- she was awesome, and so was the actress who played Emma. It’s just a very emotion-less, commercialized version of the show. Plays out more like a rock concert with special effects than an actual broadway show.
If they had marketed it as a concert version, nixed the half-assed book and small/limited chorus parts, I would have enjoyed it more I think. There was a concert tour version a few years ago that just used three leads, and I think that would have been more beneficial in this case as well. Unfortunately, as a full-out show, it was very messy.
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Don’t forget: DR. HORRIBLE’S SING-ALONG BLOG premieres on TV for the first time tomorrow evening (October 9th) at 9/8c on The CW in the U.S.!
Watch a preview here.
“I Know” from HALLOWEEN HULLABALOO: A Spooktacular Musical Revue
“If You Only Knew” from Jekyll & Hyde
This song for Emma (sung by Brandi Burkhardt) was featured in the 2005-06 Jekyll & Hyde: In Concert tour and also appears on the 2006 Resurrection album. However, it is not part of the 2012 broadway revival and hasn’t been included in any other productions to date.
