Kirk Webeck talks about his latest musical discovery, and sends a huge shout out to the Australian cast of Hairspray!
Over the last few weeks I have gone into a music frenzy: buying anything and everything I could. It has been ages since I last actively went looking for material and I must admit at first I was very disappointed in my purchases. I bought the Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll and Hyde, Civil War) musical Wonderland and can I say (in my opinion) it was possibly one of the worst musicals I have actually invested money into. I really didn’t like it at all. A musical full of all different styles of music with lyrics that are at time barely understandable (thank god they are printed within the case) – it was just a horrible experience. My second purchase I was also disappointed with (not that I should have expected anything less). I shamefully purchased Spiderman: Turn Out The Dark, despite being told by several people not to bother. Staring at my new loot of over 20 new shows, after listening to these two musicals, I was thinking “wow I hope they aren’t all like this!”
Spiderman really is just noise: I will go as far as saying I actually HATED this show. (Without using the term “rape of the ear canals”, I just thought it absolutely horrible!) Thankfully along came a third album this album and composer I have actually fallen in love with! The composer’s name is Tim Prottey-Jones and his music is amazing, and thankfully I really did enjoy this album. Based in the U.K. this fairly new composer writes for musical theatre but is as yet to complete what he would call his first ‘musical’. Instead, he has written a collection of material which fits the ‘musical’ style. The music on the particular album I bought is a collection of songs from two musicals he is currently developing with librettist/lyricist Robert Gould. These new musicals entitled After the Turn and Once Bitten. Upon first listen, one wouldn’t necessarily class Tim’s music as your classic musical theatre style, as its blended with a very much pop/rock edge. I think it will be very interesting to see what comes next for this composer. This particular album is Tim’s first foray in to music albums, and it has been thrown together without much thought to the actual line up of album. This being said, ndividually the songs alone are great and they do speak for themselves.
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