Oh, the pain! The pain of it all!
Nov. 27th, 2006 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This weekend I went to that theatre event I discussed previously, because as K. put it "you haven't lived until you've sat through a bad musical". This apparently follows the V for Vendetta logic that torture is a transformative experience.
Friday wasn't too bad, although the writer should be angry with the artistic director and his delusions of grandeur. Originally it began as a three-woman show and could actually do reasonably well in smaller venues. But thanks to this group's guidance, it's now has a 16 women cast making it unaffordable for the kind of venue that show could be produced it. (I'm being a bit vague with titles and details as I don't want to the people from that event to find this entry on a blog search.)
As for the Saturday reading of embryonic shows --- well, there were four shows. Three of them were about plucky musical theatre types overcoming personal demons and the cold uncaring non-artistic people. The fourth was a thinly disguised allegory for the same theme. How narcissistic can you get?
People might remember that I praised Sunday in the Park with George to the hilt. And yes, that show is also about producing art and comments on the creators. But Sondheim has talent and can actually think at a level more sophisticated than a bad episode of Fame.
On the other hand, I got a kick of seeing a show (the slightly allegorical one) based on a familiar figure from my days at Ryerson. And the villain of that show gave a great fun bad guy performance.
Allen
This weekend I went to that theatre event I discussed previously, because as K. put it "you haven't lived until you've sat through a bad musical". This apparently follows the V for Vendetta logic that torture is a transformative experience.
Friday wasn't too bad, although the writer should be angry with the artistic director and his delusions of grandeur. Originally it began as a three-woman show and could actually do reasonably well in smaller venues. But thanks to this group's guidance, it's now has a 16 women cast making it unaffordable for the kind of venue that show could be produced it. (I'm being a bit vague with titles and details as I don't want to the people from that event to find this entry on a blog search.)
As for the Saturday reading of embryonic shows --- well, there were four shows. Three of them were about plucky musical theatre types overcoming personal demons and the cold uncaring non-artistic people. The fourth was a thinly disguised allegory for the same theme. How narcissistic can you get?
People might remember that I praised Sunday in the Park with George to the hilt. And yes, that show is also about producing art and comments on the creators. But Sondheim has talent and can actually think at a level more sophisticated than a bad episode of Fame.
On the other hand, I got a kick of seeing a show (the slightly allegorical one) based on a familiar figure from my days at Ryerson. And the villain of that show gave a great fun bad guy performance.
Allen
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Deskjob, the musical!
Date: 2006-11-28 04:35 am (UTC)Okay.... does it say more that the performance is impractical and unaffordable, or that while you're watching it, your mind wanders into such thoughts?