tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690683.post8287792589944019951..comments2023-07-09T03:06:14.845-07:00Comments on Channel Zero: The Blog: Where else but in San Francisco can one seeZolokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14410743758280054841noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690683.post-75176231057279757102008-04-21T14:58:00.000-07:002008-04-21T14:58:00.000-07:00LOL. Well if you meant "steven" you were wrong (it...LOL. Well if you meant "steven" you were wrong (it's Stephen), and if you meant that it should have played the Boston area, you were wrong (it did in 2005). As for the score all I can say is that THRILL ME won an ASCAP award for the score, and in New York it received Drama Desk Award nominations for best musical and best music score, an Outer Critic's Cirle Award nomination for Best off-Broadway musical, the Dallas theatre league award for Best Musical, a best selling musical theatre related album at the major musical theatre music distribution sites ... just last month received rave reviews (particularly for the score) from the Hollywood Reporter and the Los Angeles Times (for the recent LA production) and has played over 20 cities in the USA, plus productions in Australia and currently in Korea (videos all over youtube). You may personally dislike the score, but objectively speaking, the score is nothing at all like a Shondheim score which generally uses dissonance, complex chord structures and fragmented lyrics, usually with short lines. THRILL ME's score is the opposite of that, with no dissonance whatsoever, simple but effective chords (nothing more complex that a "7th" chord), and the lines of the lyrics are actually quite long before the rhyme lands. I MD'd a production of it a couple years ago and I know the score well. It is not over-ambitious (in fact it borders on the simplistic), however it is possible that the actors tried to "play it" that way--perhaps being too melodramatic.lucyfan2https://www.blogger.com/profile/00276198465752172680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690683.post-29114293265466982592008-04-21T13:39:00.000-07:002008-04-21T13:39:00.000-07:00I said what I meant and I meant what I said. Inter...I said what I meant and I meant what I said. Interesting topic but the music was over-ambitious and unmemorable. Glad to see it played around here. I Also stand by my thesis that the town is in the grip of a creative torpor in extremis.Zolokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14410743758280054841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7690683.post-83929444197207638572008-04-21T08:20:00.000-07:002008-04-21T08:20:00.000-07:00re: Thrill Me. Actually it's STEPHEN Dolginoff, no...re: Thrill Me. Actually it's STEPHEN Dolginoff, not Steven. The San Francisco production is the 24th Worldwide production of the Award-winning Off-Broadway musical. And in fact there was a production in the BOSTON area (at the Stoneham Theatre in 2005) where it was nominated for several IRNE Awards. As an admitted fan of the show, I think the score is something that some people could love and some people could hate, but one thing it isn't is Sondheim like.lucyfan2https://www.blogger.com/profile/00276198465752172680noreply@blogger.com