Well, if I were Hester Prynne, then my scarlet letter would be "P". I'd have these amazing thoughts on how to make it the most epic "P" ever seen in Boston, but then five minutes before the public shaming, I'd have forgotten to make one. Thus, I would totally cut one out of a piece of felt and safety pit it onto my shirt. "I'm ready, Mr. Dimmesdale!"
Aside from the prologue, which I've heard to read last, I finally finished The Scarlet Letter at around 10:30 tonight. For as much moaning as I did about it, I have to admit that it was actually a pretty decent book. Actually, once I got into it, it was rather good. Good in a strange, almost non-English type way, but good anyway.
I believe the only way I survived was LoudLit.org, who have a podcast on iTunes (Podcast=free) that is completely just chapter after chapter of Scarlet Letter. I would listen and read along with it, and it clarified things so much better than trying to just do one or the other. Best of all, I would get a chapter done in 20 minutes clean.
For the longest time, I had to suffer my way through by trying to imagine the libretto for the non-existent Broadway version. By the end, I came to thinking, and have decided that the music would be written by Rogers and Hammerstein, who, aside from Sound of Music, write some of the dullest show music I've ever heard, to go hand-in-hand with the dullness that encompasses much of the book. When it starts getting interesting, they can go to Sound of Music mode.
Patrick Wilson can be Dimmesdale, Philip Quast as Chillingsworth, and Judy Kuhn ought to be Hester. Just because we can, Bernadette Peters will be Mistress Hibbins. As for Pearl...Elle Fanning. I know she's not a singer but I've run out of names.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Scarlet Letter
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Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote DULL show music? Au contraire, ma petite cherie! Feast your ears on the title song and "People Will Say We're in Love," from Oklahoma; "Getting to Know You," "I Whistle a Happy Tune," and "Shall We Dance," from The King and I; "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone," from Carousel; "It Might as Well Be Spring," from State Fair (okay, that wasn't quite the moving experience the others were); and "Bali H'ai," "Bloody Mary," and "Some Enchanted Evening," from South Pacific, and listen--really listen--to the lyrics, the melodies, the fantastic scoring! Pay close attention to the marvelous stories punctuated by those and many of the other songs. One Tony award might possibly be viewed as the judges' collective brain fart, but not 34 Tonys, 15 Oscars, and a couple of Grammys!
No-no-no-no-no, child! Not on your tintype!
Sorry Papa Boyd.
You are talking to a different generation with a completely different (and IMHO, much less discerning musical) palate.
Just like the days when the old folks thought Elvis was evil.
My friend Katie has forever been trying to get me to like Oklahoma (But I can never get past "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'")...her attempts have always been in vain :-/
If it makes people happy, Andrew Lloyd Webber can write it. That symbolizes (SYMBOLISM! Hawthorne loved him some symbolism) that the music, quite like the book, can be loved or hated. I know people who grovel at AWL's feet and others who think that he can't compose original music.
I lost my faith in him when he began writing a sequel to "Phantom".
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