{"id":491604,"date":"2019-10-24T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=903423"},"modified":"2019-10-24T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:59:15","slug":"sophia-anne-caruso-sings-a-song-cut-from-beetlejuice-broadway-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/sophia-anne-caruso-sings-a-song-cut-from-beetlejuice-broadway-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Anne Caruso Sings a Song Cut From \u2018Beetlejuice\u2019 Broadway Musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/beetlejuice.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Fans of the Netherworld showed up for the \u201cBeetlejuiceBlack &amp; White Ball\u201d on Monday night in New York City to see actress Sophia Anne Caruso, composer Eddie Perfect, and more of the cast of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/broadway\/\" id=\"auto-tag_broadway\" data-tag=\"broadway\">Broadway<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/musical\/\" id=\"auto-tag_musical\" data-tag=\"musical\">musical<\/a> <em>Beetlejuice<\/em>. The unusual celebration featured performances of songs that didn\u2019t make it to Broadway from the Washington, D.C. run \u2014 including \u201cMama Would\u201d and \u201cEverything Is Kinda Meh\u201d \u2014 as well as several debuts of Eddie Perfect\u2019s compositions that have never been heard or performed before by a living soul.<\/p>\n<p>Broadway\u2019s Lydia trio \u2014 Sophia Anne Caruso, Dana Steingold, and Presley Ryan \u2014 surprised the audience with a sing-a-long to breakout hit \u201cDead Mom.\u201d To round out the weird and spooky evening, Shrunken Head Guy, a fan favorite of both the film and musical, made his DJ debut to keep the party going after the performances ended. We have an exclusive video of Caruso belting out \u201cMama Would,\u201d the song that was originally performed by Lydia early in act one during the scene where she first discovers she\u2019s sharing her new house with ghosts, and the Maitlands had just performed the \u2018Ready Set Reprise\u2019 and, with sheets on, had attempted to scare Lydia.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were too many songs in act one,\u201d Perfect tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> about why it was cut. \u201cPlus, the song and the scene were trying to communicate two different things: The song focused on the fact that Lydia had had a strange and unusual connection to her mother that was severed after her death, but the scene was about the potential for a friend an ally in the Maitlands. It was difficult to get that balance right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Perfect explains, \u201cAnthony King and Scott Brown [book] wrote a beautiful scene \u2014 which is still in the Broadway show \u2014 that neatly explains Lydia\u2019s mother\u2019s kookiness as well as exploring the potential for Lydia and the Maitlands to find a common bond. They\u2019re all lonely and lost. What if they helped each other? As soon as we cut the song, despite liking it a great deal, it was obvious that we could now relay those feelings and that information in a more economical way. It also gave the audience\u2019s ears a break from sung material and allowed us to lay some necessary character and story pipe for our show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/beetlejuice-musical-sophia-anne-caruso-sings-song-mama-would-903423\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of the Netherworld showed up for the \u201cBeetlejuiceBlack &amp; White Ball\u201d on Monday night in New York City to see actress Sophia Anne Caruso, composer Eddie Perfect, and more of the cast of the Broadway musical Beetlejuice. The unusual celebration featured performances of songs that didn\u2019t make it to Broadway from the Washington, D.C. 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