Well, today's the day!! We are going tonight (my mom and I, my wife still can't get out :( :( )

We plan to go early and check out some of the area, and go to the shop next door, get something to eat. Then we will see the movie at 7:00, and drive home rather than fight the crowds after the movie.

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Dido??? <faints>

Ok, in prepping a CD for a party I'm going to tonight that has a Tim Burton theme, I have listened to all of The Nightmare Before Christmas and I've arrived at the problem some people have with the songs ....


.... they're not sung.




There are ten songs, Jack is the lead or only vocalist on 6 of them. He Rex Harrisons through each of these, only breaking into song for tiny smidges. The rest is all spoke-sung.

Ditto with Oogie on his song, and Lock, Shock and Barrel on Kidnap the Sandy Claws, where only the chorus is actually sung. On Making Christmas, the company sings the chorus, and the rest is Rex Harrisoned by Jack. Similarly, he sings only the chorus of Jack's Lament, and speaks the rest.

The melodies of these songs are carried solely by Danny Elfman's score. This is very unusual, and I can see how an initial reaction would be to find the songs tiresome. They certainly are odd in this way.

I've come to rather like them, though. Perhaps the spoken cadence of the songs is a way to properly translate the source material, which was - of course - a poem on the order of Twas The Night Before Christmas crossed with Dr. Suess. Perhaps cadence-speak gets this concept across better than actual singing. Who knows?

In any case, with the songs largely spoken, not much straight dialogue outside those spoken songs, and wall-to-wall musical score that permeates the entire piece, it really is much more of a strange operetta than the standard musical that some may have been expecting.

It's really got its own unique style. I, too, found it offputting at first. But the basic story, the visuals, the characters, and the enjoyable music sucked me in for repeat viewings ... and I grew to quickly love the quirky song-things.




Yep, definitely going to see an El Cap matinee on Halloween.

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Ditto....

I didn't mean dildo or anything. Sorry.:rolleyes:

I like the music, and pop in the CD once in a while in the car. But, I kinda dig show tunes as well, and have come to like musicals. Not opera, though.

WOW !! I mean, they really got the 3D done well. THere were a few moments when they broke the fourth wall, but those moments were tasteful and appropriate.

One trap I doscovered is sitting in an aisle seat (as I like to do) I was getting lights from the stairs behind me reflecting in the glasses lens. I had to cup my hand to the side of my glasses a couple of times, but next time I will either book the middle of a row or the last row.

Kudos to Disney for this. I LOVE their new 3D logo - yummy! and to get to see "Knick Knack" again in 3D was a blast !!!

I agree, it was done VERY WELL! I got the balcony VIP seats which are GREAT! Very center third row. Close to the screen, and up so you are looking almost center high as well. Very nice. Way to crammed on space, though. I couldn't move my feet at all, and there is no way I could have left without having to empty the row! Yikes!

And I couldn't find the basement display thingy. Do you have to ask for it?

The cramped leg room and the 1 1/2hr drive there is enough to keep me from going often. But for something special like this, it's worth it.

Did you not find the basement (which is accessed from the door next to the concession stand) or not find the exhibit once in the basement (which is hard for me to imagine).

No, you don't have to ask for it. At least for the press screening there was a sign in the lobby directing people down there.

I couldn't find the basement. Which consession stand, the downstair one? I was in the balcony so I didn't get over to the downstairs one. So that's where they hid it, huh? Oh well. It was such a crowded zoo, that you couldn't see the forest for the trees and I just wanted out. I don't know if it was worth it. I saw some of those types of models at the Disney gallery above POTC at DL. I wasn't too thrilled.

Do you think it would have been worth fighting the crowds to see it, Alex?

Depends on how interesting you find seeing the actual original. Personally, I've never much been impressed by seeing actual movie props so no, not for me.

It was interesting to see what size they were working with though.

It's a little interesting to me, but like I said I've already seen some of it at DL. So, probably no loss.

Thanks!

See you Sunday at MA! I hope it's not as crowded as it was yesterday!

~Bob