As for Flying High and Strike up the Band, they retained only their title songs. Then there are the musicals that kept little but their hit songs: Gay Divorce(e) (only "Night and Day"), Whoopee (just "Making Whoopee"), and Knickerbocker Holiday ("'September Song' remains, but not much else").
Naughty Marietta salvaged five, while Music in the Air saved six. Call Me Mister, Lady Be Good, and Louisiana Purchase retained three. Surveying Hollywood adaptations, he'll tell you when only a few songs were retained: Head's Up and Little Johnny Jones kept two. He did, after all, write "What They Did for Love," one of the documentary tomes about the landmark show. But he may be overreacting because he was close to the show. Ever." When one considers the show's achievement and the movie's lack of it, he could be right. Of A Chorus Line, Flinn says, "The worst film of a great Broadway musical. Flinn has detailed most every miscarriage of justice. Though he makes the list his book's appendix, this is no vestigial organ to those of us interested in how Hollywood has dealt with our precious art form.Įven when the results aren't all that we could have hoped for.Īlas, in its zeal to "improve" the product, Tinseltown has often done just the opposite.
Well, if for no other reason, you must buy this book because Flinn devotes 19 pages to "Broadway on Film," in an endeavor to list every movie musical with Great White Way roots. So if you own all those other reference books on musicals, why do you need Denny Martin Flinn's "Musical! A Grand Tour?
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