Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Once More, with Feeling
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While the idea of infusing a weekly TV series with a Broadway musical ethos isn't exactly a new one--think Randy Newman's ambitious Cop Rock--it became something of a turn-of the-century television mini-trend. But few have reached as far--or succeeded--like this November 2001 episode of Fox Network's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Penned by series creator-producer Joss Whedon and performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar and cast, it's a loving, loopy musical pastiche that takes potshots at everything from Andrew Lloyd Webber to alt-rock. Paralleling the show's lovable pop culture tweaking, the musical styles here (the episode's musical conceit is a curse visited upon Buffy's hometown of Sunnydale) range from a patent footlight chorus of demons being interrupted by Gellar's hard-rocking stake thrusts on "Going Through the Motions" to Spike the Vampire's goth-metal complaint "Rest in Peace," with everything from parking tickets and mustard stain removal to climactic duels with the supernatural getting the Broadway send-up. Also includes strong orchestral score-suites from three other episodes, as well as Whedon and wife Kai Cole's demo for "Something to Sing About." --Jerry McCulley
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Album information
| Release Date (USA): | 2002-09-24 |
| Release Date (UK): | |
| Artist/s: | Various Artists;Joss Whedon;Sarah Michelle Gellar;Christophe Beck |
| Label: | Rounder / Pgd |
Track Listing
| 1 | Main Title | |
| 2 | Overture/Going Through the Motions | |
| 3 | I've Got a Theory/Bunnies/If We're Together | |
| 4 | The Mustard | |
| 5 | Under Your Spell | |
| 6 | I'll Never Tell | |
| 7 | The Parking Ticket | |
| 8 | Rest In Peace | |
| 9 | Dawn's Lament | |
| 10 | Dawn's Ballet | |
| 11 | What You Feel | |
| 12 | Standing | |
| 13 | Under Your Spell / Standing (Reprise) | |
| 14 | Walk Through the Fire | |
| 15 | Something to Sing About | |
| 16 | What You Feel (Reprise) | |
| 17 | Where Do We Go From Here? | |
| 18 | Coda | |
| 19 | End Credits (Broom Dance/Grr Argh) | |
| 20 | Suite from "Restless | |
| 21 | Suite from "Hush" | |
| 22 | Sacrifice (from "The Gift") | |
| 23 | Something to Sing About (demo) |
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