Musicals (and a weird ramble half way through)

OK, so now for a proper post.  As I said, I love musicals – watching, listening or partaking.  Can you partake in a musical? 

Okay, so a look at thesaurus.com tells me that I do not partake in musicals, it makes very little sense if I put any of the synonyms in. 

Do I absorb in a musical? No. What would that even entail?  

Allure in a musical?  Well…

Arrest in a musical? Again, no. 

Bewitch in a musical?  I’ll leave that up to the audience.

I haven’t got a huge back catalogue of shows I have seen, but let me tell you, I have the biggest amount of musical crap on my iPod.  Things even the composers of the shows themselves haven’t even heard of.  I mean, obviously they have, but you get my drift.   Right now I’m listening to Spring Awakening which is lovely and all, but does it have any correlation between song and book?  Answer, not really. 

I went to see this a few weeks ago when NoNonsenseProductions put it on and was both impressed and disappointed.  Their production team was diabolical – sound guys essentially shouting a conversation over the top of the first act, then not turning mics off when characters left the stage in act two.  There’s nothing more distracting than hearing the cast chatting in their dressing room while the leading lady is singing about her abortion – however the cast were all very good.  The leads were excellent, even if the male was slightly too camp to pull off the “deflowerer” (not a word) of the leading lady.

New thought.  My new favourite people are Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond.  These guys are like Rodgers and Hammerstein, but cool.  They use swears and everything.  They seriously need to make it big.  If they don’t it will be a crime to every musical theatre lover.  It’s not often I find a team in which every song they have written I like.  These guys are that good.