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daveake 09:27 am UTC 02/14/11 |
| In reply to: | 600 celebs (including Jim) name their favorite Broadway love song - bellminer 05:47 am UTC 02/14/11 |
| I love that Jim's reviews are deeper than most people's lyrics. Dave > Jim responds in classic Jim style: > > For me, the most romantic song EVER WRITTEN for the > theatre is DEFINITELY "Epiphany" from SWEENEY TODD. Not an > obvious choice, but consider: an overwhelmingly powerful > outpouring of dark, obsessive, romantic yearning, loss, > and emotional waves and torrents. It is powerfully > romantic in the sections,set to the "JOHANNA" motif, > expressing the love of the lost: Johanna, then Lucy, and > finally the crushing embrace of Vengeance and Salvation, > the love of what can finally triumphantly be ATTAINED. > "Theres a hole in the world/Like a great black pit/And > it's filled with people/Who are filled with shit/And the > vermin of the world inhabit it--BUT NOT FOR LONG!" Dark > exultation that is almost ecstatic. "We all deserve to > die!/ And I'll never see Johanna, No, I'll never hug my > girl to me" A lament so charged that it is heightened and > achingly sensuous. "And my Lucy lies in ashes/And I'll > never see my girl again/But the work waits/I'm alive at > last/And I'm full of joy!" This is truly erotic, musically > and lyrically. > > This is the ONLY song from theatre that I've mesmerized > known rock n'rollers with! It is that febrile, feverish, > and heartshattering. A romance for LOVE LOST but VISION > CREATED! Thank you, Mr, Sondheim. With transcendence and > tumescence. All the other"romantic songs" sound like a > little music box next to this mighty church organ. > > Of course, I confess to having written "Once upon a time > there was light in my life/Now there's only love in the > dark/Nothing I can do/A total eclipse of the heart." | |
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