I win!
If you're really bored, check out the review of the Assassins OBC that I wrote on Amazon.com!
Go to amazon.com, search for "assassins sondheim" in the Popular Music section, and click on the link for the 2004 Assassins recording (the one with the garish CD cover). Mine's the review titled "Assassins lite" under my pseudonym, Kace. :p I think I was pretty kind, haha. If you read my Assassins CD comparison that I did back during the summer, I just rehashed some of my main points (but in less than 70 pages this time O_o). Oh, and I realize that I have indeed only seen ONE live production of Assassins, but saying I've seen "several" gives me more cred. Trust me. ;)
Go to amazon.com, search for "assassins sondheim" in the Popular Music section, and click on the link for the 2004 Assassins recording (the one with the garish CD cover). Mine's the review titled "Assassins lite" under my pseudonym, Kace. :p I think I was pretty kind, haha. If you read my Assassins CD comparison that I did back during the summer, I just rehashed some of my main points (but in less than 70 pages this time O_o). Oh, and I realize that I have indeed only seen ONE live production of Assassins, but saying I've seen "several" gives me more cred. Trust me. ;)
posted by Erica at 10:12 AM
1 Comments:
Read your review of the recording and actually did go to see the production. I indeed like the original, darker, production (staged here in Chitown by some excellent companies). That original ending without "Something Just Broke" was very powerful. However, I think that the Roundabout production, taking the concept of the shooting gallery and expanded it as a type of american circus, was very successful without losing any of the power of the original. It was, in my mind, a good intepretation.
The great thing about many Sondheim works is that they can undergo such diverse interpretations without losing their intensity. A good example is Pacific Overtures which has been shown both in simple, spare, kabuki by the Chicago Shakespear Theater, or a more lush staging by the Tokyo Theater. Both work well - though I have to say the current production by Roundabout suffers from a skimpy orchestration.
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