Honorable mentions: “Moving Too Fast,” “If I Didn’t Believe in You” If you’ve already seen my post on the film version of The Last Five Years, which went up about three and a half weeks ago, then you might imagine that I’m burned out on talking about this musical. You’re wrong. I will never be burned out… Read More Songs from Musicals: #7, “Nobody Needs to Know,” from The Last Five Years
Honorable mentions: “She Cries,” “The World Was Dancing” If there were such a thing as a Platonic ideal, the Platonic ideal of a Broadway romantic duet would be “I’d Give It All for You.” It checks the boxes: stars heterosexuals, appears late in the show, features reunification of a couple who have split, provides roughly… Read More Songs from Musicals: #11, “I’d Give It All for You,” from Songs for a New World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYJ1F7iBQw4 Honorable mentions: “Blues: Feel the Rain Fall,” “The Old Red Hills of Home” There’s a pleasurable simulacrum in “Factory Girls/Come Up to My Office.” It’s not merely the fact that the girls are lying about what they’ve seen Leo Frank do, and about what he’s done to them, and how that influences the jury… Read More Songs from Musicals: #14, “Factory Girls/Come Up to My Office,” from Parade
Dir. Richard LaGravenese. Starring Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan, Natalie Knepp A list of my ten favorite musicals right now, which is depressingly conventional, and maybe the clearest possible expression of my guilty pleasure (namely, well-off white people watching their lives go to pot; one might succinctly refer to it as the “Revolutionary Road principle”): Miss… Read More The Last Five Years (2014)
Seeing Things Secondhand 