Bears_On_Stilts t1_iy4io25 wrote on November 28, 2022 at 6:16 PM

Reply to comment by TServo2049 in Babes In Toyland (1986) by AZSnake

If you get the chance, check out Bricusse’s additional songs written to pad out his version of the Willy Wonka stage musical. They’re so weak, it’s no wonder the eventual Broadway version threw out everything but “Pure Imagination” and started from scratch.

TServo2049 t1_iy4rskz wrote on November 28, 2022 at 7:17 PM

Doesn’t surprise me. His work with Anthony Newley was great, but without him, that man was arguably the Nickelback of show tunes. The Rex Harrison Doctor Dolittle? Leslie Bricusse. Those sappy songs from Hook? Leslie Bricusse (and he wrote even more of them, back when it was supposed to be a full-blown musical). That stupid poem that stops the first Superman cold? Bricusse. (Thank goodness that wasn’t sung as originally intended…)