Harold & Maude with no C.S. music

[Chris]

I am flabberghasted!! No Cat Stevens music in the new Harold and Maude off-Broadway Play... I guess they wanted to update it a bit. But still, this is like blasphemy!!

She admires Mr. Thalken's score - which has no connection to the Cat Stevens soundtrack of the film - for its pathos and musical complexity, and sang snatches to demonstrate their appeal.

www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/theater/newsandfeatures/02schi.html

[Vivian]

I cannot even begin to imagine Harold and Maude without the music of Cat Stevens. No way, no how. That is one movie I will not go see.

Peace,Vivian

[Jancat]

"Harold and Maude" isn't "Harold and Maude" without the Cat songs!

[Lucy13]

So... what song is the banjo-carrying Harold going to go jaunting off into the sunset to?

Pretty incomprehensible...

[Daddy-o]

It'll be like The Graduate without Simon & Garfunkel. Or Yellow Submarine without The Beatles. It's a crime!

[Chris]

absolutely!!

The two go hand in hand, like Peanut Butter and Jelly.

Where would be that precious scene of Maude singing If You Want To Sing out.... be? It's unconcievable.

I know the play is suppose to be a musical, but ...come on, Harold and Maude need Cat Steven music, this is as bad as when they remade 'An Affair to Remember' using an trans-atlantic airplane instead of a Ocean Liner. You just shouldn't change things, when they are perfect the way they are.

[Vivian]

First rule of thumb: Don't fix what's not broke! And leaving out Cat's music from Harold and Maude is about as broken as you can get.

Peace,Vivian

[Celticat]

I am absolutely astounded to hear there will be no Cat Stevens music in the new Harold and Maude. I can't imagine it being a success without all those beautifully inspiring songs ....

Jackie

[Daddy-o]

It'll never work!

I watched the new Thunderbirds movie over Christmas. Lady Penelope did not have her famous Rolls Royce! She had a big pink posh car but not the Rolls. It just wasn't right! Spoilt it for me.

...And another thing... when I was a youth, R&B music was Arthur Alexander, Ray Charles, Chuck Berry... these days it's young girls from South London doing karaoke cover versions.

Angry of Essex

[Jancat]

You know... I'm still aghast about this.

For one thing, I simply can't imagine that opening sequence with any other music than "Don't Be Shy".

(Still shaking my head in perplexity...)

[tree]

just that harold & maude is becoming
a play changes it dramatically
with or without cat music............

it's probably better that cat's music
won't be included.
this way his music will be exclusive
to his musical production.

[Vivian]

Jancat said:

You know... I'm still aghast about this.

For one thing, I simply can't imagine that opening sequence with any other music than "Don't Be Shy".

(Still shaking my head in perplexity...)

Same here, but it MUST be Cat's voice singing it, and noone else.

Peace,Vivian