THE PIRATE QUEEN

[Phan#24601]

I am a HUGE fan of Shönberg and Boubil's previous works (LES MISÉRABLES and MISS SAIGON), and was wondering about the opinions for THE PIRATE QUEEN. I know it's old news and was a huge flop, but the soundtrack is $10 on iTunes, so what did you guys think?

[Princeton Returns]

Personally I liked a lot of the music, there are a few cringe moments though. Its the story I think that let it down

If you are a fan of B&S Id say its definitely worth getting, especially for the brilliant Hadley Fraser

[Phan#24601]

It's either this soundtrack or MARGUERITE, and right now I'm kinda leaning the other way because I listened to the iTunes samples for both and found myself more interested in MARGUERITE. Thanks for your opinion though! ??

[Nickhutson]

Of course the music for Marguerite wasn't by Schonberg - it was by Michel Legrand.

As far as Pirate Queen - I am sure the songs are on YouTube - that's a good research place.

PS - it's a cast recording - not a soundtrack. FIlms have soundtracks - shows have cast recordings. :-P

[Phan#24601]

Thanks for the tips! I will be sure to use them in the future. I realised my mistake with Shönberg and Boublil earlier; they wrote the book, not the music...oops.

[Phantom of London]

Yeap you have gone on to say, I realised my mistake with Shonberg and gone on to spell his surname wrong, which has a lot of irony with it, so therefore hilarious.

I am a big big fan of Alain Boublil and Jean Claude Schonberg, they are my favourite composers of all time, I nearly saw The Pirate Queen in March 2007, but a slip by me booked for February 2007 and it hadn't opened by then, rung Virgin 2 minutes later and they wouldn't let me change my booking.

I love the cast recording for The Pirate Queen and loved Marguerite when I saw it (I am in a majority of 1 on this).

[TBFL]

I love their other work, but The Pirate Queen was a complete borefest in the theatre, and it felt like it went on for hours and hours. There were no stand out numbers, apart from I'll Be There. The score sounds like it was made up of numbers that were cut from Martin Guerre. I think ive actually listened to it just once.

[mallardo]

I'm with you TBFL. I bought the OBCR, played it, never played it again.

[bob8rich]

As a show it just didn't work - basically it had not emotional core to hold it together or to make anyone care about the characters. It has some fantastic songs though. And Hadley and Stephanie were amazing when I saw the show live and amazing on the album.

[sparepart973]

I saw the out of town previews in Chicago. It's was a very "pretty" production, and some of the music is really wonderful, but the story and the entire production is such a huge bore. The characters are such boring archetypes and absolutely have no depth.

Hadley's "I'll Be There" was the best thing. "She Who Has All" could have been second best song but Linda Balgord..

[peggyb2]

I love many of the songs-and hate the rest!Both leads are great.I can't bear the whole Oirish thing and the screechy Queen sets my teeth on edge.But I would have thought it worth revisiting and tweaking?
I also loved Marguerite when I saw it but mostly because of the great cast;I'm not sure all of the music was worth the effort they put into it.

[DeNada]

All I can ever think of when it comes to PIRATE QUEEN is

Rah, rah, tip, top, everything's right as rain
Rah, rah, tip, top, here in the Queen's domain

Has been stuck in my head for YEARS.

[ClapYo'Hands]

POL, you also got his name wrong - it's Claude-Michel.

[Quiche2]

I didn't really like the show, but some of the music is good. I would buy it.

[CATSNYrevival]

The biggest bummer, aside from it not being a complete recording, is that they didn't record the opening stick percussion bit for the title song. It just randomly starts on the cast recording and it sounds really awkward.