Tuesday, June 09, 2009
The Musical ‘Coraline’ and Stephin Merritt Make the Most of Their Pianos
NYTimes.com: "THE score of the Off Broadway musical “Coraline” is full of unusual sounds. Musical notes are joined by scrapes and scratches and thuds, and on first listen it sounds as if the composer and lyricist, Stephin Merritt, leader of the indie band the Magnetic Fields, has written his music for an array of unusual instruments. In reality, though, his score is bare bones. Not only is it performed by a single musician (with assistance from the cast), but it’s also composed almost entirely for pianos."
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Hi 2009, its Marion from the Future! I didn’t know it was set in the UK! Sick. I liked the anecdote about lijmiting the instrumentation to unify the world, and that sparked a thought of other shows that employ that “Musically you need to know what language you’re speaking throughout, or else things will stop making sense,” The way the costumes are portrayed via the images included in the article are interesting! Not what I expected! “The show’s theatricality is also evident in Ms. Chen’s prominent position onstage; the gender-, race- and age-blind casting; and the frequent rhyming couplets.” This was also unexpected, as this is not a part of the movie so I would be curious to see how it looks onstage. The article also states that the set is made up almost entirely of pianos, which would probably look really interesting for the “other father” scene, and I am curious to see how it would relate to the rest of the show.
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