tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11444919.post3289989188341177494..comments2024-03-02T03:34:18.492-05:00Comments on JD Times: Some Enchanted EveningJim D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02937524015257942529noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11444919.post-34079845219205942862008-04-30T18:23:00.000-04:002008-04-30T18:23:00.000-04:00Oh, and I forgot to add the additional sentimental...Oh, and I forgot to add the additional sentimental irony of HELLO YOUNG LOVERS: the young lovers don't end up old, dried-up, and alone, because by the end of the show they're both DEAD! In fact Tuptim gets burned at the stake, offstage. (Although in the earlier movie of ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM, it happens onscreen.) Yes, what a touching little love song.<BR/><BR/>But they do all have the lovely music of Richard Rogers, a man who once famously said, "I can piss a melody."<BR/><BR/>As for ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE, which Jeremy Brett lipsynchs so nicely to someone else's voice in L&L's MY FAIR LADY, it's a song sung by a stalker. It's creepy.Tallulah Moreheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07416330735326405496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11444919.post-10370397564722289952008-04-30T18:19:00.000-04:002008-04-30T18:19:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Tallulah Moreheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07416330735326405496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11444919.post-52274744474777023432008-04-30T18:02:00.000-04:002008-04-30T18:02:00.000-04:00WHITE CHRISTMAS has kind of a dopey story, with a ...WHITE CHRISTMAS has kind of a dopey story, with a lot of crapola sentimentality for the man who used to order the leads to kill people, or just march through mud in the rain. Great songs though. And Danny Kaye is ALMOST not insufferable in it, at least in his drag number with Bing.<BR/><BR/>Now then, Mr. Theater, "the hopeful optimism of 'Hello, Young Lovers'." HELLO YOUNG LOVERS is a song sung by a widow (And just for additional scariness, the widow is Boris Karloff's great-aunt, his grandmother's sister) essentially saying to Young Lovers: "Enjoy it now children, because in an eye-blink you'll be dried-up, old, and alone like me."<BR/><BR/>"The self conscious doubt of 'If I Loved You'." No, this song, is a tease from someone who can't commit, and alway contains the unsung "But I don't."<BR/><BR/>"The settled familiarity of 'Something Wonderful'," Oh this is a particualrly evil song. The first of a polygamist's many wives is saying "It doesn't matter what awful things he says or does to you, because every once in a long, long while, he'll stop abusing you long enough to say something nice." It's a song, like many, many of Oscar Hammerstein's sexist lyrics, for a dishrag with no self-esteem. It's every bit as bad as "What's the Use of Wondrin'" in Carrosel or "My Man" in SHOWBOAT.<BR/><BR/>As for “I Have Dreamed,” well, we all know what the doomed lover was doing with his hands while he fanatsized about Tuptim's arms. Ew! Romantisizing masturbatory fantaisies. Double yuck!<BR/><BR/>Give me Rogers & Hart anyday. WHERE OR WHEN, now THAT is a great song.Tallulah Moreheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07416330735326405496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11444919.post-68263912803752062422008-04-30T17:49:00.000-04:002008-04-30T17:49:00.000-04:00Those sinister Oklahoma! songs. Did you ever watch...Those sinister Oklahoma! songs. Did you ever watch the TV show "Twin Peaks?" I can't hear "Surrey With the Fringe On Top" without thinking of the dead girl in the trunk of the car!Kathy Rogershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980621565856010779noreply@blogger.com