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Awesome!
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I absolutely love this song because each character has such a distinct style in each of their verse and yet it all works together incredibly well.
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I used to laugh so hard at "Don't touch the coat!" I remember my dad doing his over the top impression every time we talk about this show. Good memories! :)
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While I have to admit a fondness for Mako overall, the original production did seem overblown. I've seen several more stark ones, including a wonderful "in the round" version in Philadelphia, that had a stronger dramatic impact, and I thought brought more of the simple Japanese theater style into play. I still like the play and music regardless.
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Try again until you don't fail.
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Why has this never been released on DVD other Sondheim original prodcutions have been released so why not this one?
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@sunnyblossoms I'm not offended by it. It just doesn't thrill me. My visceral response to the song is "meh." I can't get into it the way I can with other Sondheim songs--especially other songs from this show.
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@DannyHiggs The fact you know what the song means but still are offended/do not like it give you every right to not like it.
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this show never appealed to me when I listened to the original cast album, but then when I saw it in the Donmar warehouse production in London some years ago it was a revelation ! very much scaled down I suddenly "got" it and have loved it ever since...but I'm sure it was wonderfull in the original production too, maybe it felt too remote and inaccesible(which it definitely isn't!) for a general audience, i don't know...
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All of the sections of this song are based on the popular music of the various nations during the late 19th- and early 20th- centuries, when European imperialism was at its height: John Philip Sousa for America; Gilbert & Sullivan for England; Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsikov and the like for Russia; and Offenbach for France (specifically the can-can). And the whole piece is a brilliant reversal of the racist "yellowface" tradition in American theater, including the stereotyped grammar.
lustertheleopard 2 years ago 28
Sondheim = Shakespeare
smeggers0329 2 years ago 14