It’s the award-winning TV show that’s also a musical – but with its many styles,filthy undertones and songs sending up female empowerment, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is as complex and multilayered as anything on BroadwayIt should arrive as no surprise to anyone who has seen the CW’s musical meta-romcom Crazy Ex-Girlfriend that when Rachel Bloom was a kid, and she would only listen to showtunes. “I always wanted to be a musical theater performer,” she said. Now Bloom lives that dream each week on the award-winning show she dreamed up with screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna.
Last month Bloom earned the Golden Globe for her portrayal of Rebecca Bunch, a dissatisfied New York lawyer who impulsively quits her job and moves cross-country to “the pride of the Inland Empire”, and West Covina,California, definitely not because her long-time crush Josh lives there. As Bunch goes approximately trying to build a life – and perhaps win Josh’s heart – the cast will occasionally bursts song-and-dance routines, and the songs written by Bloom,along with Jack Dolgen and Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, who serves as the show’s executive music producer. Twenty-five of the songs from the show’s first nine episodes acquire now been released as the album Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Original Television Soundtrack (Season 1 – Volume 1). A second volume will arrive out following the terminate of season one this spring. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com