I truly love this music. I put it on last night while Noah read his comic books and I just feel that no stage production can really compare with the movements if the music. The story is not even that great I think, but the ideas are. Hoffman's story is in many ways gothic or even a horror story and it would be cool to see a filmmaker take this music outside the box of plot and holiday spirit to just try and create a work if art with it. But then perhaps it is still too difficult to live up to those mysterious sounds that are meant to represent places, far away for the composer, but more familiar in the modern world and places where my father was from.
Actually the Chinese dance is probably the worst of all the songs and usually brings about much racist costume and movements on any production. But even aside from that the song is just not as good.
Well maybe it could be good if presented in a different way, who knows. I have heard some productions go with a lion dance. Not sure if this is done to the music or the drum.
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