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I'd say your grades are very much on the money. I wasn't watching very critically, though. I was too busy sniffling and bawling for a lot of it. (There are moments in the score that ALWAYS get me.)
Y'know, I found La Vie Boheme sluggish in both this DVD and in the movie. I've seen four live casts, and they generally pulled it off, though I think it comes off most energetically on the cast album. Maybe I'm mentally putting together a much more kinetic picture of how that song should be staged.
Yes, Christmas Bells was an unforgivable omission from the movie. AND so was "Goodbye Love." What the fvck was Chris Columbus thinking!? (It did show up as a deleted scene in the extras, and it had been effectively performed and shot, and it had NO BUSINESS being cut.) This song is both a very direct shout out to the source opera, La Boheme, and in itself, an emotional moment that should never, ever ever ever ever be cut.
I said in my last post that I would wait a while before watching this again, but guess what - I've already rewatched it.
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