Subject: I'm from thereabouts as well.
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Posted on: 2009-01-15 20:01:00 UTC
I've considered going to USU, but I think I'm gonna go somewhere else. Did you like it there? I heard their choral program has a new director. *eyebrow waggle*
Specifically, Little Women: The Musical and Little Women: A Little Musical?
The former is somewhat older and quite a lot better known, having run on Broadway, but it is the latter of which I'd like to speak.
Three years ago tonight, due to a class I was taking at Utah State University, I was assigned to see and amateur-review a local community theater production. So impressed was I that on the way out I bought a copy of the soundtrack. I was a little disappointed, for reasons I'll get to in a moment.
This "Little Musical" covers about half of the book; I don't remember exactly, but it ends sometime between Beth's funeral and Jo's (re)departure for New York. (Certain events were changed or put in different orders; Jo never went to New York the first time in this version.) As I discovered when I encountered the Broadway musical, many of the songs are at the same points of the story. But one song, one I really liked, is missing from the soundtrack. It is the equivalent to "Take a Chance on Me"; Laurie is telling Jo that he thinks Meg has fallen in love with his tutor, and she retorts that "Love Doesn't Happen That Way". It's a great, funny song, and is reprised when Laurie proposes at Beth's funeral. But it doesn't appear even once on my soundtrack, so I'm wondering if there's some way I could get ahold of a (legitimate) recording thereof.
The website offers a perusal score, which would presumably include it but would have no sound; it also offers the original soundtrack recording, probably the one I have, and a premier DVD. I don't really want to spend fifty dollars on a DVD of totally unknown quality, especially when I don't know whether it's cut to remove the very part I want. Does anyone have knowledge of that?
So I wouldn't know the music. But on an entirely different note: Utah-person! *waves frantically*
No, I'm just kidding. I am, indeed, a Utah-person. Not currently attending USU, and with no current plans to return, but still resident in the state.
I've considered going to USU, but I think I'm gonna go somewhere else. Did you like it there? I heard their choral program has a new director. *eyebrow waggle*
I didn't really form much of an opinion. The sunsets were really nice, and the winter was cold, and that was about it. I spent most of my time in the computer labs instead of going to class, as a result of having discovered the PPC, Milliways, and Wikipedia, as well as half a host of lesser distractions, in the span of a few months.
I don't know about the choral program, much. I'd say to ask my brother, but he's unavailable and went to a different school anyway. Your waggling brow makes me a bit nervous, as I suspect you're trying to insinuate something.
I can't believe that hasn't occurred to me in three years, but it hadn't.