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| 2012 Romantic Broadway Love Song (Jim's choice) | |
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tragiclovepotion 11:31 am UTC 03/08/12 |
| I stumbled across this link and didn't know if anyone else had noticed it. It does say 2012.....so I'm hoping it's new and not recycled like so much news on the net. It's a Valentines survey of over 700 entertainment biz people asking what their favourite romantic song from a musical is. I looked through the list looking for my favourites and found Jim on the list! Most people write a couple of words but Jim goes into a good amount of detail. I'm pretty sure the caps are all his too *lol* 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." "Jim Steinman - Producer and Composer for such artists as Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Bonnie Tyler, Meat Loaf, Sisters Of Mercy, Barry Manilow, Air Supply and (Currently) The Dream Engine, Theatre: Whistle Down the Wind (w/ Andrew Lloyd Webber), Dance of the Vampires" Link - http://broadwayworld.com/vday2012/index.cfm?year=both&strt=201&show=100 | |
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