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George Firth it is!!! Anyone Can Whistle (the song) is a jewel of a song. Perfect in its simplicity. Not a Day Goes By (from Merrily) is hands down my favourite Sondheim. Matteo that is splendid arrangement. Most of my fave Sondheim songs are from his “flops”- Anyone Can Whistle, Merrily, Follies etc.

The Barbican is RSC home in London. So the audience was a Shakespeare audience, not a musical theatre one . I knew nothing about Hugo’s novel. At the end of the first act the audience went crazy. Ill never forget. One of the greatest musical experiences of my life. Perfect play, perfect company, perfect environment. I remember my scales this way: tone, tone , semitone, tone, tone tone , semitone.We actually hear Eponine’s On My Own in One Day More which closes act 1 as a kind of thematic leitmotif. At the end of the musical we experience perfect harmonic resolution. In much the same way as Wagner does in the closing bars of Tristan und Isolde. Four hours of continually shifting chromaticism is resolved on that final B. You are a natural educator. You don’t “dumb” things down, you’re incredibly charismatic and your passion is palpable . Great job👍

I saw Patti’s Evita here in Sydney. She flew into finish the Sydney run. The Australian Evita shot her voice . I was 17 . I remember thinking this is what REAL TALENT LOOKS AND SOUNDS LIKE. Also heard her Fantine in the original Les Miserables in 1985 (fourth preview) at the Barbican in London. PATTI LUPONE IS A ROCK STAR!!!!!

“The ones who follows the rules” is slashingly ironic. BUT you bring up an interesting point up about going up,on G sharp. This song shifts between major and minor constantly.

Finally, an individual who is equipped with a musical vocabulary . Someone who can discuss transposition and who KNOWS THE SCORE! Who knows that vibrato is not a voice type but a device strategically deployed by singers to heighten parts of the text giving the song expressive depth . In other words an, intelligent, trained musician . This guy is REALLY GOOD 👍

I love this guy

AH-MAZING! Thank you so much!

The use of Cynghanedd in the lyrics - it's a Welsh girl's dream!

No “sky”. Without a doubt. It is brilliant!!!

Great video. Loved the 'took ownership of the dreaminess lydian a# note." incite. I MUST put some Lydian in all my musicals.

God, I love your voice. Its so free...

I think my favourite story song is the Schmuel song from the last five years. Would love to see a video about it

Congratulations to all your success. Perhaps Tommy Rhodes could be adopted to Broadway.

Congratulations. (even more) Good things are coming your way.

Nice review.

I am so proud of you. Getting your show stagged. Then filmed, and then Recorded (planned) Wow. Wow. Wow.

I gave this a thumbs up by default, before listening to it. Sorry about your heartbreak.

Beautiful song. And you have a gorgeous lower register.

Love the tension and release insight. Will steal.

i am very proud of you. CONGRATULATIONS. I would love to see this work staged. I do want to say though that this was my idea first. I was working with it for about 4 years, and then my draft went missing. I see you started working on it, at the same time that i found mine again about 3 years later. I want justice.

I PERFER the videos about YOUR songs, the most, then your analysis of other composers, then your performance analysis videos.

After watch your videos, I want to make my music that much better. I think I need to end one my liter songs with a pun!

Thanks for the great analysis. Where can one purchase these Piano-Vocal scores?

Have you done or will you do a video about what you learned about Tommy Rhodes from your experience of your production? I'd love to hear your thoughts about the your successes and challenges.

This sounds like it could be finaletto. Really great writing. I hope that you get a performance that can give this song justice!

Could you react to Jordan Fisher on hadestown! He has baritone qualities singing a pretty high tenor song so I would love to see your thoughts! You're amazing!

So happy to see new videos from you! Don"t know what happened, but hope you're doing well. Wonderful analysis as usual 🧡

I didn't know about the concept of borrowing a note from a different scale until watching your videos, so I've always mentally registered that part as a temporary key modulation of some sort (which isn't quite far off, but not entirely accurate). And it's fascinating to read the sheet music after your explanation. The "dream" parts of the lyrics and the "wake" parts of the lyrics, where he goes back and forth on, definitely lines up with the borrowed note / back to original note in scale part in the music. The last part is quite interesting too. I am going to over-read into it and say, if the Phantom is willing, his strong will and determination will bring the chaos back into order as long as he can hold on to it.

This is one of the best songs ever written for a musical!!! You have to watch the DVD of the Australian production. It's fantastic!!!

Great analysis (like always). Your channel should have 100x the views its getting. However, you "Musical Theatre Theory" Outro tune, was lengthened and embellished, and as I have the maturity of a 5 year old I bawled out load repeatedly "you changed it" until my mother came and gave me a lollipop.

I love this song, even tho the rest of Love Never Dies should have never been written.

Alan Manken said in a tiny desk concert that they used to jokingly call part of your world "somewhere that's wet"

Very interesting. I was a music major in college for a while and loved parsing music like this.

Wow, such a cool analysis!

You're doing a great job. You're writing is precise and beautiful.

I LOVE the five-not motif. What a cool pattern.

Exciting update! Can't wait to hear the album and have fun this weekend in NY - what a great opportunity!

Since being cast as bakers wife in my school musical I’ve been doing as much research as possible and this was probably one of the most useful videos yet!! Sometimes all people see is the fact that she cheated on her husband and not the fact that she came out of it better (plus she was literally in the wrong story so I don’t know if she could have stopped it even if she tried) and it’s not that cheating is not wrong, but it’s not the point of this story, it’s a narrative to make her character stronger and to realize that she’s grateful for what she worked long and hard to achieve.

songs sound so great! definitely will check it out!

While it is true that Aaron Tveit is not a baritone, but a really high tenor, Josh Groban is not a baritone either. He's a tenor, too, even though not quite as high one as Tveit. Consequently, with his somewhat darker and meatier voice, he manages better in that low tessitura.

Super looking forward to this album!!!

WHoa whoa whoa!!!!!! MCL, you omitted the "whoa " at the end of "Music Theatre Theory Whoa"! Into. This upset me deeply.

So many great vocal effects pointed out, that I will instruct my leads to watch this video for secret sauce ideas.

I am envious (in a good way) of your wonderful Broadway sampler experience!!

GREAT, detailed, spiritual, insightful, analysis. My favorite so for of your analysis videos. The more I watch you videos, the more I want to pack into my own songs!!!!!

OK, all that theory stuff at the beginning of how it's written in 3 chords means nothing to me... WTF is this song talking about? What is never enough? And then I figured it out.. It's a Love Song that the character of Jenny Lind is singing to Barnum for bringing her to America and making her an international star.. And if you saw the movie you could see she was developing feelings for him. Which he rejected in favor of his wife.. So All the Applause, All the spotlights, All the fortune means nothing if I don't have to you to share it with. It's right there at the beginning of the song... "Take my hand, Will you share this with me? 'Cause darling, without you All the shine of a thousand spotlights All the stars we steal from the night sky Will never be enough, for me, without you For the purpose of my post, I took out all the lyrics in the middle in order to funnel it down to it's basic meaning. My only critique is the lyrics "Without You" should have been at the end of the chorus because it represents the resolution to the sentiment that it's "Never Enough". If you don't like that suggestion, then it could also work if it was simply the very last two words sung at the end of the song. When Loren Allred whispers in a falsetto "For Me", instead just substitute that one and only time...."without you" And before I get attacked, this comment is based on my own experience. I was in show business 20 years as a professional singer and sometimes songwriter. Now I haven't written a ton of songs, so this is just my opinion based on my personal sense of composition. Btw.. I LOVE this song, and I am now a HUGE Loren Allred fan. Also I just found out this movie was 7 years ago

Loved this!

MCL, my favorite recording of this song is the one sung by Dustin Hatzenbuhler. ua-cam.com/video/YYomjQeAFB4/v-deo.html

Suggestion: When describing notes, like high low f# or high f# please consider using numbers instead, like "f#3 to "f#5". If you do, please go with the better standard Middle C = C4. (If you use middle C = C3 [bad], you end up with negative notes at the low end of the piano, and this will warp the space-time continuum, worse than playing Piano Man on a Thursday night at 8pm.)