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Title: Why I love Wildhorn musicals


holyguyver - June 16, 2010 08:05 PM (GMT)
I just wanted to say that I love Frank Wildhorn musicals so much :D . But strangely for what might be considered odd reasons. I love the fact that his musicals each have so many versions, that Dracula has had 3 or 4 slightly to heavily different song/book versions of it, & Jekyll & Hyde has had something like 6 to 8 pretty different versions, & the same with his other ones like Scarlet P & Civil War. I love how I can look back & find so many different versions of the same show, each staging is it's own wonderful little surprise on how different it is from the other, it is all so intricate, all those little changes, I love it. With Phantom, & other shows they are always the same, once you have heard it so many times you can get bored of it, but not a Frank Wildhorn show, it is different every time, & you cannot get bored of it, there is always something new & surprising, I love it. I am sure that reaction was not Wildhorn's intent, but it is what keeps me coming back to his musicals long after I get bored of others :) .

Fantasma da Opera - June 24, 2010 04:48 AM (GMT)
I love them for the music. Frank is the only composer that managed to make me like and not get bored of a single score of his. Even when some songs sound pretty much like former ones.
I just wished he managed to get decent librettists. If he did, he would certainly end Sondheim's Reign in the USA.
But I also find a good thing that Frank doesn't put his work within a case and doesn't allow any change (like ALW for example...). His openmind towards changes in his own works normaly (with the exception of Broadway) end up perfecting them and keep the shows evolving. That's why you can see Rudolf in Budapest, then go to Vienna and see the show again, 'cause it's no longer the same. Or go to Korea and see J&H and then arrive in Germany and see again 'cause it's completly different.
But above all it's the music. The man's a genious.




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