Yes, musicals often have themes or leitmotifs, it often feels like this show has, alongside the 50% recitative, another 30% made up of the same... 3? 4? songs, reused and reused and reused.
Not as bad as the worst of Lloyd Webber's works, which it seems use the same 2 or 3 tunes over and over throughout. I'm thinking in particular of his, IMHO, absolute worst opus ... not Cats (talk about insubstantial stories, as we recall the previous mention of Candide), but ... Aspects of Love.
("Love changes everything ... " indeed! It couldn't rescue this dog.)
Hell, even the best of his stuff, his collaborations with Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita) make heavy use of leitmotifs.
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Not as bad as the worst of Lloyd Webber's works, which it seems use the same 2 or 3 tunes over and over throughout. I'm thinking in particular of his, IMHO, absolute worst opus ... not Cats (talk about insubstantial stories, as we recall the previous mention of Candide), but ... Aspects of Love.
("Love changes everything ... " indeed! It couldn't rescue this dog.)
Hell, even the best of his stuff, his collaborations with Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita) make heavy use of leitmotifs.
Wagner has a lot to answer for ...