Glorious Ones - The Glorious Ones: A New Musical
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Artist: Glorious OnesEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2008-12-09
Music Label: JAY Records
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Music Review: Not so "Glorious..."
Rating: 2 Stars
I fell in love with the writing team of Ahrens and Flaherty when I saw a reading of their charming comic musical, "Lucky Stiff," at the small studio space at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons in 1988. The score was tuneful, witty and grounded in a love of and familiarity with traditional musical comedy forms that was refreshing, unapologetic and very, very welcome. They were obviously going places, which was confirmed by their follow up, the beautiful, moving and powerful "Once on This Island." Since then, like all teams, they've had their hits ("Ragtime") and misses ("Seussical"); unfortunately, I'd put "The Glorious Ones" in the latter category.
As with every Ahrens and Flaherty score, there are some lovely, heartfelt numbers and an undeniable energy and intelligence at work, but this is a mostly ponderous, leaden score lacking depth and cohesion. One's enjoyment of it may depend on whether or not one saw the show in performance (which I did not), and that's a sign of its weakness. Without director Graciella Danielle's (presumably) filthy choreography, for instance, "Armanda's Tarantella" is not much more than...well, a fairly ordinary tarantella. And there's a sameness to a lot of the material that compares less favorably to their past scores. When Flaherty sets the lyrics "silhouettes and pirouettes" to the exact music he used for similar words in "Ragtime," one doesn't know if it's winking self-homage, a nod to the continuity of theatrical tradition (a presiding theme, after all, of "The Glorious Ones") or mere laziness. Regardless of the reason, it suggests a lack of originality.
The cast is uniformly marvelous (particularly Jeremy Webb, Erin Davie and the powerful Natalie Belcon), and works very hard to convince us there's more here than meets the ear. One can't help but wish, however, that Marc Kudisch had his customary pitch problems more firmly under control; it's an irritating, frustrating annoyance that will probably prevent me from listening to the album as often as I might otherwise.
If you want to hear Ahrens and Flaherty celebrating the high that only live theater can bring, download two songs from their delightful "A Man of No Importance": "Going Up" and "Art." There's more life, humor and unmitigated joy in those two songs than in the whole of "The Glorious Ones."
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