The 2016 Broadway season was a show that broke some
boundaries for the Broadway stage, and it was filled of both highs and lows. I
know that it is only July, but I wanted to write this up now because I had some
feelings that I needed to get out. I want to talk about four shows in this
post, two shows that are doing very well aka a high and two shows that didn’t
do so well aka a low. As you might be able to tell from the title here, two of
them are Hamilton and Tuck Everlasting the other two are Waitress and Bright
Star. I have not seen any of these shows, I picked them based on really loving
the cast recordings and in two cases thinking that they deserved a longer life.
I felt the need to add that in here so you know that is mostly judged by the
music, the performances on tv, what I know about the show, and the grosses for
each of these shows.
I will start with the shows that were the
lows, as I feel that ending this post on a high is the way to go about it. Tuck Everlasting was a show that didn’t last
long at all, and I feel it is because people wrote the show off as a “kid’s
show” or a family show and not a show that told a story, and a timeless story
at that. People I feel didn’t see the
show because they didn’t take the time to read what it was about fully, they
just wrote it off as a children’s show, or a show that would be filled with
kids and they didn’t want to see that. There was nothing really ground breaking
about this show, and that might be one of the reasons that people didn’t go to
see the show. They couldn’t get tickets to Hamilton, and so they went back to
an older show or a show that has been around for a while rather than seeing
something new and exciting. Tuck Everlasting seems like it was a fun show,
maybe not a show that people would say had music that you remembered or music
that you would walk out of the theatre singing but it seemed like it was
fun. My favorite song from the show is
Everlasting, and if you listen to this song and you like it you can still buy
the Original Cast Recording on CD or digitally on Itunes.
Bright Star was a show that lasted a little longer than Tuck
Everlasting did, but I still feel like the time of this show on Broadway was
cut short, due to people not seeing the show and not selling tickets they
couldn’t keep it open. Eddie Brickwell,
and Steve Martin who wrote the music and the lyrics of the show invested their
own money into the show because they believed in the show, and they wanted to
see the show get to the Tonys. I don’t blame Hamilton for the shows closing,
but I am saying that if the show had opened any other year maybe it could have
done better and maybe it would still be opened today. A show doesn’t get Tony
nominations in multiple categories everything
from the music of the show, to the female lead of
the show for nothing. I feel that this is a beautiful show, and this is just
from the music as they’re careful about not saying much about the plot on the
cast recording. I thought this from the moment I listened to the Original
Broadway Cast Recording for the first time, and to this day I firmly believe
this. I would love to see this show go on tour, so that more people can
experience this brilliant show live. This show didn’t have that many things
that were that ground breaking in it, but the story of the show that was based
on true events, and the music of the show is bluegrass and a more classic sound
than modern shows these days, and I feel that this was a ground breaking thing.
The thing about this shows music is that I can’t pick a favorite song from this
show, as the answer would be most of the songs from this show. If you want to
hear some music from this show I would start with The Sun Is Going to Shine
Again, or for a more light hearted
number I would recommend Another Round if you
like these the Cast Recording is available.
Waitress is a show that is doing very well right now, and
this I feel is a good thing for this show because I want to see this show do
well. The thing about this show I feel is the journey, I get this from just
listening to the Original Broadway Cast Recording over and over for the past
few months. This is show that is filled with fun numbers, and some very serious
numbers just like Bright Star was and I love that about this show the variety.
With music and lyrics by Sara Barellies It like Hamilton brought people to the
theatre to see the show, or it got them to support the show by buying the
Original Broadway Cast Recording. Once again this show had a lot of Tony
nominations this year, and you don’t get that many Tony nominations for
nothing. My favorite song from this show
is She Used To Be Mine, this is one of the more serious songs in the show that
comes in towards the end of the show.
Hamilton is the show that everyone is talking about, and the
show that everyone wants to see this year with presales booked into next year
this show is a phenomenon. I feel that
this show is so popular because it is something that hasn’t been done before it
combines history and rap, and it is teaching kids about the history of our
country. This show has a lot of things about it
that are ground breaking, but the thing that I feel is the most ground
breaking is the fact that it is a show that is largely people of color, because that is the way that
Lin wanted it. I also feel that this show is so popular is because it is a show
by Lin Manuel Miranda, who had a following from
his smash hit musical In the Heights. Hamilton won a lot of Tonys this
year, and to the credit of the cast and the creative team they deserved every
single award they’ve received, and they deserve all of the success I just wish
that the awards could have been spread around more. My favorite song is a lot
of them, but I do have a soft spot for the song Burn in the second act of the
show as I love the character of Eliza. There are many ways to get involved with
the Hamilton experience: getting the Cast Recording, and getting the book
Hamilton: The Revolution.
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