![]() ![]() The album is rounded out by, among other things, the suite from "Hush," one of the most acclaimed Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes. Standouts are Amber Benson on "Under Your Spell," James Marsters on "Rest in Peace," and, not surprisingly, the sublime Anthony Stewart Head on "Standing." Benson and Head's duet on the "Under Your Spell/Standing (Reprise)" is an especially affecting moment. The cast pulls off the fairly demanding vocals nicely. The range of musical styles is also quite impressive, ranging from ballads ("Under Your Spell"), to Billy Idol-esque rock ("Rest in Peace"), to a clever retro-pastiche ("I'll Never Tell"). It manages to do a couple of things most musicals don't do: give a reason for all the bursting into song (a demon named Sweet has put a curse on the town that makes everyone sing) and move the plot forward (characters reveal thoughts and feelings they had been hiding, with mixed results). The requested URL /cgi-bin/call_tip3/cult/buffycutouts/ was not found on this server.The soundtrack of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's first ever musical episode, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More With Feeling, is every bit as fun as the episode itself. Buffy the Vampire Slayer copyright Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/īuffy the Vampire Slayer in the UK on BBC 2. Vote - what did you think of this episode? There is also a book with the score and notes about the creation of the episode available for all you hard core Buffy fans. The full soundtrack of Once More, With Feeling is out now to buy. ![]() "It took something like 19 hours of singing and 17 hours of dancing in between shooting four other episodes." "I'm not a singer, and I hated every moment of it," Sarah Michelle Gellar said of making the musical episode. Joss Whedon spoke exclusively to the BBC Buffy web site during the summer. It's going to be the most amazing show of the year." They're really just what you would expect. "He had four or five of the songs sort of finished. "Tim (Angel co-executive producer Tim Minear) and I went to Cape Cod to work with Joss in early July," Angel producer David Greenwalt told the Bronze posting board. I co-arranged and co-produced the songs with Jesse Tobias of the band Splendid," Beck added. "The songs started out as four-track recordings Joss made himself. " came up with lyrics, melodies, the underlying chords/harmony, as well as general stylistic direction for each of 16 musical numbers," composer Christophe Beck told the Bronze posting board. Joss spent all summer writing the episode. Battle has won Tony awards for his stage work.Īnya's fear of Bunnies has previously been mentioned in such episodes as Fear, Itself, where she dressed up in a rabbit costume for Halloween. The character of Sweet is played by Broadway star Hinton Battle. ![]() Another track on the album, And You and I, refers to a "Mutant Enemy" in its lyrics - hence the name of Joss's production company. The final confrontation with Sweet features music very much in the style of the band's classic track Close To The Edge from the album of the same name. Joss is a big fan of progressive rock band Yes. Marti plays the woman arguing over a parking ticket (beware of spoilers) and Fury is the man singing about his dry cleaning - "They got the mustard out!"įury actually started his career in musical comedy and has previously appeared in the Angel episode Reprise, as he mentioned in his interview with us. Writer/producers Marti Noxon and David Fury both cameo in the episode. ![]()
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