Pop music started moving faster. Trends changed quicker. A big screen muscial would take at least two years to make. First thing doing will be to write the script and the music. However pop trends moved so fast that said music would be out of fashion - and if it was any good said writer would release it as a pop tune first (main reason Burt Baccarach never really got into musicals).
Lighter cameras meant more location shooting. More location shooting meant added realism, people found the idea of shooting on set starting to look silly. Therefore incoming directors of the seventies were all about realism, and realism has no room for song breaks.
Special effects ties in with realism, but also into the production of the new kind of event film from Jaws onwards. Suddenly certain tyeps of films (science fiction, horror) became more realistic, they became more respected and they garnered huge audiences in adolescent males. Suddenly Hollywoods focus changed to this audience who was a lot more precictable. And who hated musicals.
I'll return with why I think musicals are slowly coming back later....
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― Sarah, Wednesday, 19 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/events/ongoing/2149/
"Luann: Scenes in a Teen's Life" High-energy musical based on popular comic strip by Greg Evans, directed by Dana Case, March 7-16. 760-744-1150 x2453. Through March 16
― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 16 March 2008 18:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Has anyone in New York seen the Grey Gardens musical? I watched a piece about it on PBS and it seemed pretty intriguing, despite my reticence toward new musicals. Thoughts?
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 07:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't imagine it as a musical. I have seen the Public Broadcasting production of it the film and the documentary of the film being made and don't recall any reference to a musical production in the works. No Offense, but the thought sort of horrifies me, really.
― Wiggy Woo, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 07:58 (fifteen years ago) link
It got an extremely good review in the NY Times, and Maysles was pretty enthusiastic about it. Ben Brantley concludes:
"Watching this performance is the best argument I can think of for the survival of the American musical." Pretty high praise from Brantley.
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/theater/reviews/03gard.html
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 31 December 2008 08:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw Grey Gardens. It was really good. Very funny. I think I even nominated one of the songs from it (Revolutionary Costume of the Day) for some of the year end polls. I highly recommend (and I went in very skeptical).
― Mordy, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 08:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Just listened to this:
http://www.persistentcookie.com/storage/sings_sondheim.jpg
Weirdly, I like him better on his cast recording of Sunday in the Park with George, then on this album singing the same songs.
― Mordy, Sunday, 22 March 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrr3EmaF3gA
this song has been fucking my shit up all week i don't mind admitting
― Kony Montana: "Say hello to my invisible friend" (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 March 2012 11:27 (twelve years ago) link
Of these ten overlooked films picked by Ehrenstein, I've seen #2 several times, but p sure no others.
http://www.fandor.com/blog/unsung-musicals
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
took daughter to see Singin' in the Rain at the Castro yesterday, was awesome (altho by the end she was complaining that it was too long)
― If I was a carpenter, and you were a douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 27 December 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
is Cosmo gay Y/N
oh that would be wonderful to see it at the Castro!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2180411/
Into the Woods (2014)
Anna Kendrick ... Cinderella (rumored) Johnny Depp ... The Wolf Chris Pine ... Rapunzel's Prince Jake Gyllenhaal ... Cinderella's Prince Emily Blunt ... The Baker's Wife Meryl Streep ... The Witch Christine Baranski ... Cinderella's Stepmother James Corden ... The Baker Daniel Huttlestone ... Jack Tracey Ullman ... Jack's Mother
for real???
― Mordy , Friday, 12 July 2013 22:16 (ten years ago) link
oklahoma is on great performances tnite! yay pbs - hugh jackman 1998 version
― Mordy , Saturday, 16 November 2013 02:14 (ten years ago) link
shut up! so watching this
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 November 2013 02:16 (ten years ago) link
can anyone recommend john clum's "something for the boys"? watching "kansas city" performance makes me curious how he talks about oklahoma
― Mordy , Saturday, 16 November 2013 02:28 (ten years ago) link
I quite liked the recent Live From the Lincoln Center performance of Sweeney Todd w/Emma Thompson and that Welsh opera dude. PBS has already taken it off their site, but it's up on YouTube.
― you little affront to god (reddening), Monday, 13 October 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
oo, that sounds good
― Mordy, Monday, 13 October 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link
I made a spur of the moment decision to see Jersey Boys tomorrow afternoon -- last week in Sac, kinda just want an excuse to sing along really
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 November 2014 09:45 (nine years ago) link
Debbie Reynolds plays a football (along w/ her stuntwoman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDsbzDvFbIk
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 January 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
this is... news
http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles-theater/news/ice-cube-fagin-oliver_83751.html/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 February 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
O'Shea Jackson is going to engage in Jewish stereotyping? That's news?
― Moo Vaughn, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
How is it not tbf
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
I presume that may not be the religion of the character in this version.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
on Betty Garrett
https://brightlightsfilm.com/wp-content/cache/all/who-becomes-a-legend-most-and-why-wasnt-it-betty-garrett/#.XIJiIShKiM8
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 March 2019 12:44 (five years ago) link