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#79THE WHO’S TOMMY Broadway Previews
Posted: 3/13/24 at 2:40pmI also saw this last night and am a bit more measured in my response to the show. I'm still chewing on it (which is usually a good sign for me), so these thoughts might not be fully cohesive.
First, it wasn't nearly as loud as the early reports had indicated. So it seems like they're working that out. There are some gunshots in the prologue/overture that were jarring, but the actual musical sound design was on the louder side but not unbearable in any way (to me at least). That said, I think there are still some big sound issues to sort out. I particularly struggled with understanding Ali Louis Bourzgui. He sounded mealy mouthed to me, and I'm not sure if it's a mixing issue or if he's bad at enunciating. My instinct is that it's the former. But either way, I lost a lot of his lyrics.
The overall design and direction was, at times brilliant, and at other times a bit perplexing. They're going for a very retro feel that, by and large, works, but sometimes feels really cheap. And the pacing of and transitions between certain songs and scenes still needs some work, I think. The first act was interesting because the whole thing felt like one long overture that culminated in t
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Rick Fox
Music Director
Conductor
arranger
orchestrator
composer
It seems to me that I have been a music director of one sort or another for a very long time. It seems that way, I guess, because it is true. Recently I was asked by a friend, not in our business, exactly what it is that I do. And it occurred to me, as I was describing it, that it was not all that different from my days in a garage band when I was about 14, learning cover songs from the radio. Back then I was the one with the Royal Conservatory piano lessons and theory under my belt. Therefore I was the one the others in the band expected would lift the song from the record, teach them the chords, work out vocal harmonies and basically run the rehearsals. And the host’s Mom would make us sandwiches. Apart from that, things have not changed all that much.
To start with, a quick summary: I have been involved in over 100 theatrical productions throughout North America, from regional theatres in my native Canada, to Broadway, and everything in between. And on almost all of those productions I served as Music
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