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Unlike a lot of my New York friends, I like WICKED and its score. (Though the show is quite different from its source material, a novel which is dark to the point of morbidity...)
And I like Schwartz's score. I like most of Schwartz's scores, though I never really got into GODSPELL, even though it has some good songs.
I saw WICKED on Broadway, though not the original cast. I did manage to see the original cast of PIPPIN, which was marvelous, directed by Bob Fosse, with a witty ingenue by the name of Jill Clayburgh, as well as Sandahl Bergman in the dance ensemble.
This fall, the La Jolla Playhouse out here in San Diego is doing the stage version of Disney's HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, with music by Alan Menken, and lyrics by Schwartz, who also worked with Menken on POCAHONTAS, writing some lovely songs together.
I get all of Schwartz's scores as they come out, and even have a few not commercially released, like his opera of SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON, which is musically kind of dull and unmelodic.
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