Music video by Seth Rudetsky performing Deconstructs "Brotherhood of Man" from How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. (C) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
First time listening to a Seth Rudetsky video. Wow, he talks fast! I particularly enjoy fast talkers - it feels like a mental exercise listening to them. My brain is thoroughly engaged.
I'm not terribly musical and I learn so much from these videos! This time I learned why it always bothers the hell out of me when I see people clapping along and it doesn't fit the music: 2 and 4, not 1 and 3. Got it.
A couple of thoughts: 1) I TOTALLY do Seth's vibrato hand gesture when I hear vibrato in music 2) It looks like something catches fire at about 4:00. 3) Lilias White has made it impossible for me to like any other version of this song
There is NO OTHER version of this song after this one LOL. They take it right on to school. I also love Billy Porter's "Beauty School Drop Out".....insane.
1) Friends do not let friends clap on one and three 2) I saw the revival of How To Succeed and Brotherhood wasn't as awesome as it could have been simply because of the lack of Lillias White.
You were in the show, but don't know that one of the main characters is the nephew Bud Frump? His uncle is the CEO, J.P. Biggley. They make jokes about the nepotism all through the show.
Matthew Broderick is a better singer technically than Robert Morse, but Morse brought that something special to the role that no one else has quite captured.
If you listen closely to Broderick's versions of "The Company Way" and "Grand Old Ivy," you'll notice he sings the lower harmony on the sustained final note, when Finch is supposed to sing the higher note. That suggests that Broderick couldn't sustain F#4 or G4 for the required length of time, while Morse (and, to his credit, Daniel Radcliffe) could.
Well, he's not actually reviewing the entire show, he's DECONSTRUCTING one song from the show. While it may be, in your opinion, the worst version of the show, i can't comment cause I've never seen it, this is probably the BEST version of this song thats out there.
I think it really works as an update, because while the performance is updated, the music is still true to the bebop/ swing kind of sound the song is based on.
I prefer the original 1960s in many ways, mostly because Robert Morse can't be beat even though I also love Matthew Broderick especially in *The Producers*, but I just adore Miss Jones in this revival! I'm kind of sad they didn't do that in the revival with grown-up harry potter.
How about deconstructing some of the songs from the original 1961 version, especially the Bonnie Scott numbers, like "New Rochelle" or "Paris Original"? PS I plan on watching all your vids through this coming winter...
Oh and btw (forgive the abbrev'n), thank you, SethBAby for the incredibly thorough, worshipful, joyous insight you give us to music in general and the human voice in particular. I have adored Patti LuPone since I saw her Evita, and now I know why.
Just a couple hours ago I saw someone on a message board call it H2$. What really irritated me was how they wrote the titles out for all the other shows they mentioned. I was like "Thats not the fucking name!". I said nothing though. I took a deep breath and reminded myself that I am only going to alienate myself more with responding like that. I mean, these days I am just grateful to see someone listing favorite shows that arent just Hamilton, Mean Girls, Be More Chill, Heathers, and Beetlejuice. I think Broadway message boards actually can cause me more irritation than the one for the shitty Trump lovin locals near me. They at least dont make me sad for theatre. If you love Trump and are like "not everyone who likes Trump is a shitty person". It only means you dont live in my town. why the fuck am i responding to a hypothetical offended person?
It's up to any revival to make the show relevant and accessible to the audience, or why are you reviving it in the first place? So. Whatever the uncle line referred to in 1961, nepotism has been with us since the Greeks (no, not Onassis, Aeschylus). So why not make the uncle line work on that basis? Instead of pushing some retro obscurity? Why not, huh?
Hate this version the original is much better sorry dont get me wrong the performers are all amazing but I've done this show and by far the original version is better
A lot of piped-up changes they took on some of the numbers in this revival; (Secretary is Not a Toy -- and WHY do productions cut "Cinderella Darling" -- a great number! ). Except for Megan Mulally, It was such a disappointment. Yeh, and Miss Jones scatting ....ugh. Leave the classics alone.
