Xur and the Kodan Armada in B-minor.
From Slashdot: Further proof that the musical theater format has become a complete mockery of itself and the only interesting musicals anymore are adaptations of movies and adaptations of bad movies: The Last Starfighter: The Musical. (In case you don't remember: The Last Starfighter was the first movie to use entirely computer-generated special effects and the last silver-screen appearance of Robert Preston.)
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Well, there's also Avenue Q-- a worthwhile musical that's a parody of a tv show.
Totally. Not only is musical theatre an insult to itself, it's an insult to evolutionary theory and an insult to ontology as well. One need only look long and hard in the direction of that back alley abortion called Moulin Rouge. #1 worst movie ever, including any movie yet to be made in the future. Someday musical theatre, like public executions, will be but a bowel-seizing grotesquery of the past. God willing.
I agree. Moulin Rouge is a great movie. Movie. Not taking place on a stage, it's not really musical theatre, now is it?
The last good, original thing to come out of Broadway was RENT. And RENT - when all was said and done and then actually contemplated for five minutes - was a rediculous parade of miseries that could have been averted with a job at McDonalds and a box of condoms.
Once upon a time, Broadway was the cradle of inspiration for American culture. How did it become a showcase for Hollywood crap to be remounted on a live stage? I think it collapsed in itself like a dying star under the weight of its own commerce.
Through its overstayed dominance over the New York scene, Broadway became more about industry than art. Entire companies sprouted to do nothing but lure out-of-towners in to The Big City to see LesMis and eat somewhere besides Olive Garden. This tourist trade eroded the urban landscape surrounding The Great White Way. A new element took hold that seemed more at home in Vegas.
In a bid to clean the streets of strip clubs and porno shops, NYC sold their soul to the Devil (or "Disney INC." if you prefer) and started to rake the tourists back in with a restoration helmed by adaptations of the Lion King and Beauty and Beast. Et Tu Julie?
When everyone saw how much money Disney was making on Broadway, a whole new breed of sheep-feed was given rise. Footloose. Saturday Night Fever. Rocky. Broadway is good for tourism again, but only through an adaptation into a dumping ground for low-brow celluloid favorites and movie stars in need of some "street-cred" to cushion a down spoke in their career (and I mean you Matthew Fucking Broderick!).
Fuck 'em all. The stage is Dead. At least in New York it is. Hollywood won. A pillar of our culture has beed eroded like the teeth of a moviegoer with an addiction to Sour Patch Kids(TM).
And what the fuck does Moulin Rouge have to do with this post? You wanna hate something that was made out of a sense of fun? Be my guest. Just keep it relevant.
I did say Moulin Rouge, didn't I. Sorry about that. I meant Chicago.
Who the fock is this anonymous? O my gawd! I'm one of them!
Ah, yes, Chicago, which was first produced in 1975. The best show on Broadway is a revival.
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