I've now heard snatches from a lot of the songs. I must say that I didn't think that they would go for the old-fashioned show tune type of songs typical of the 1960s. Perhaps it works though. It might not have sounded right if the had gone down the 'Frozen' route. As it is the music in this is in keeping with the 1930s setting.
shareGod I hope so. Last thing I want is this to feel like a baz luhrman flick.
shareIf by "old-fashioned" you mean of the same musical sophistication and overall quality of the original "Mary Poppins" songs, and songs in other musicals of the 1940s to 1960s, I certainly hope so.
shareI've just read that the song writers for this, Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, wanted to retain the spirit of the Sherman Brothers songs of the original Mary Poppins. I think that have succeeded as I've heard another song from the film. 'Trip A Little Light Fantastic' sung by the lamplighter and the company chorus. I think that this song and 'The Place Where Lost Things Go,' sung by Emily Blunt, will be the hit songs of the film.
shareAgreed with all., Those twoi wrotew for HAIRSPRAY obvr 15 year (post-John Waters Broadway, then movies), and made it (except for a few like WITHOUT LOVE, still good though) pretty true to the 60s, which I was a kid during. (Even Jerry "Mister Pinky"'s theme sounds like a plucked-string 1950s-60s cooking cue..you'll hear it on the final credits.!)
shareI'll listen out for 'Mister Pinky.' I sometimes miss out the end credits of films so I'm not too sure if I've stayed to hear that one or not. I've seen both the 2007 'Hairspray' and the 2016 live version. Also the 1988 'Hairspray' which was mostly 1960s record tracks if I remember rightly.
shareI saw it.,.it's like HAIRSPRAY duo Shaiman and Whitman were the Shermans (see my own post, Saw it..)
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