KAFKA the musical

[Guest]

No one has, as yet, so I will post that this coming Sunday's Drama on 3 is a presentation ing David Tennant, with music and words by Murray Gold, who has scored and been nominated four times for BAFTA's in the category Best Original Television Music. Wonder how he will fare for this combo of radio play and musical...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010glpd

On the same evening on BBC 2, David Tennant plays the backroom coach/assistant manager that helped reform the tragically diminished Manchester football team after the 1958 Munich air crash claimed eight of their wunderteam. The link for more information and pictures here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010tb6z

[Mobson7]

p.s. David Tennant is on this evening's Front Row talking about United but I wonder if he will mention Kafka!

[french frank]

Oh, dear. It sounds a bit wacky with an excuse for Murray Gold's music. I suppose I shall listen (though I gave last Sunday's a miss) but David Tennant isn't a special draw for me. Perhaps I'll wait until people rave about it

[Mobson7]

I'm recording! United sounds so much more of a safe bet for Sunday evening!

[amateur51]

but David Tennant isn't a special draw for me.

He speaks very well of you, french frank

[2LO]

Fortunately, the title was misleading. The 'Musical' element didn't seem to feature until well into the play and when it did, the songs were usually brief and of the Weill meets the Fiddler on the Roof mode, which suited.

But I think K. himself would've insisted that in a play called 'Kafka the Musical' the music would have been as elusive as Herr Grossman was obviously going to be.

The estuary-English epitaph at the end was curious.

[Angle]

Anything spoken in Estuary English is, for me, most unappealing. It has become, unfortunately, fashionable in BBC "drama" productions. I put drama in quotation marks because I yearn to hear something dramatic and entertaining, not simply something loudly didactic.