Music 2701A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Winnie Holzman, Elphaba, Glinda The Good Witch
10 Oct 2017
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Lecture 3: beauty and the beast and wicked. Only animated movie to be nominated for best picture oscar. Won oscars for best song and best score: music by alan mencken, lyrics by howard ashman, book by linda woolverton. Sixth longest run in broadway history: nominated for nine tony awards; won only one for costumes by ann hould. Music for the broadway show: added new solo songs to give more insight into characters: belle, beast, and. Other new numbers: no matter what duet: belle and maurice, human again written for movie, but not in original release, maison des lunes for m. d"arque, head of the insane asylum. Beauty and the beast listening: belle (belle, gaston, lefou, villagers, silly girls) Very similar to movie version: belle is portrayed as dreamy, book-ish. Villagers portrayed as simple, content with their mundane lives: me (gaston and belle, home (belle) Marriage proposal: comic song that shows gaston"s arrogance.
