DramaRob
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What's your opinion?I bought the soundtrack. It sounds good. I'm still lost as to what's happening though. The song order is very different from the movie, so I don't know what's going on really. Feed the Birds is the most amazing song. Walt used to have the composers come in and play it every day. If he heard this version, he would melt. I get chill just about every time I listen to it.
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nickhutson
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Yes - this version if wonderful. Bill Brohn is a masterful orchestrator, and the use of the huge pipe organ sound is very effective - plus Laura's singing is spot on.
The story is pretty similar to the movie, but there is a new subplot introduced for Mr and Mrs Banks not hugely explored on the CD - you have to see the show to enjoy it. So, if you can - do it!
A lot of the nonsense from the Disney movie, that is not Travers, has been removed (Tea Parties on the ceiling, jumping into paintings etc) so the musical is a lot more faithful to the original stories - and much, much darker.
The song that probably confuses you is TEMPER TEMPER. This is when Jane and Michael break their toy and get angry with eachother - and Mary Poppins leaves the nursery and casts a spell on the toys to teach M&J a moral lesson.
Practically Perfefct explains itself pretty well...
Being Mrs Banks - she's saying I want to live my life as Mrs Banks - but just someone's husband
Cherry Tree Lane - introducing the fact Mr Banks had a nanny when he was younger (who we meet later on - Miss Andrew) and that the children want a new nanny.
Brimstone and Treacle (or - sulphur and treacle!) Miss Andrew's mixture given to childrent o make them behave and buckle their ideas up. The repirse is Mary Poppins' and Miss Andrews' duel - with MP winning.
Anything Can Happen (if you let it): typical finale - saying if you try hard for sometihng, you get it.
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RainbowJude
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Based on the books... | nickhutson wrote: | | The story is pretty similar to the movie, but there is a new subplot introduced for Mr and Mrs Banks not hugely explored on the CD - you have to see the show to enjoy it.... A lot of the nonsense from the Disney movie, that is not Travers, has been removed (Tea Parties on the ceiling, jumping into paintings etc) so the musical is a lot more faithful to the original stories - and much, much darker. |
I'm still not convinced that making something "darker" automatically makes it better.
At any rate, both of the sequences you mention have precedents in the Travers books. The tea party on the ceiling appears in the first "Mary Poppins" book, when Uncle Albert Wigg also uses laughter as a way to get them floating in the air while - if I am not misremembering - the chalk picture episode appears in Mary Poppins in the Park.
Later days
David
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ComeToMeAngel
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I Love itI love this musical and it is a shame that it is closing but is going on tour!!!
I wish that Laura Michelle Kelly will Play Mar Poppins again
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musikal_geek
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Re: Based on the books... | RainbowJude wrote: | | nickhutson wrote: | | The story is pretty similar to the movie, but there is a new subplot introduced for Mr and Mrs Banks not hugely explored on the CD - you have to see the show to enjoy it.... A lot of the nonsense from the Disney movie, that is not Travers, has been removed (Tea Parties on the ceiling, jumping into paintings etc) so the musical is a lot more faithful to the original stories - and much, much darker. |
I'm still not convinced that making something "darker" automatically makes it better. |
It's not that it makes it better, but it stays more faithful to the original material, and takes a lot of the really "little-kid" stuff out.
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Jordan
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Re: I Love it | ComeToMeAngel wrote: | | I wish that Laura Michelle Kelly will Play Mar Poppins again |
She's currently in LOTR at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
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RainbowJude
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Re: Based on the books... | nickhutson wrote: | | The musical is a lot more faithful to the original stories - and much, much darker. |
| RainbowJude wrote: | | I'm still not convinced that making something "darker" automatically makes it better. |
| musikal_geek wrote: | | It's not that it makes it better, but it stays more faithful to the original material, and takes a lot of the really "little-kid" stuff out. |
So then why do so many people seem to celebrate the fact that something is "darker"? I suppose it's because it's so easy to buy into a trend with which you've been hit over head with in the mass media.
Also, particularly in the case of Mary Poppins, supposedly greater faithfulness to the original material doesn't really make something better either. Ironically (I guess), the greatest revision to the original material - using the bringing together of the Banks family as a firm narrative framework, which is not a particularly strong element in the books (existing as implication rather than given fact) - is an inherent part of the film.
I think there is as much "little-kid stuff" in the show as there is in the film. Talking statues in the park is certainly no more "grown-up" than the film's interpretation of "Jolly Holiday". And yes, there's no "Temper" song in the film, but big deal. Does it really add anything significant to the narrative? It's just another bit of business.
Later days
David
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Dvarg
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Re: Based on the books... | RainbowJude wrote: | | Also, particularly in the case of Mary Poppins, supposedly greater faithfulness to the original material doesn't really make something better either. |
That's true, but...
| RainbowJude wrote: | | So then why do so many people seem to celebrate the fact that something is "darker"? I suppose it's because it's so easy to buy into a trend with which you've been hit over head with in the mass media. |
...personally, I was surprised when I saw the movie. I had read the books first, and was a little disappointed when Mary Poppins is interpreted as much less evil in the movie. Her viciousness is part of the charm of the book character, and Julie Andrews (as much as I love her) is a little bit like being hit by a valentine card (or whatever Christopher Plummer (?) compared her to).
I think they have "darkened" the stage show the wrong way, though.
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DONT.LOOK.BACK
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i like the whole idea and i do think that the music is good but is it helped in the fact the tarzan closed i wont support it. but i still think it has potential.
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