Poll
Thu, 12 July 2001, 01:38 pmWalter Plinge44 posts in thread
Poll
Thu, 12 July 2001, 01:38 pmI have a couple of queries regarding the current poll. Firstly, it asks us to vote for our favourite "broadway" musical. By saying "broadway" I assume that means that angled strip in NYC around which most of the NY theatres are. So, does that mean we are being asked "Which of the current musicals on Broadway now (or recently) do you prefer?"? If so, I don't get it because there ain't too many of us here in godzown what get to go to too many "broadway" musicals. The voter base would be very small.
If the question should have been a more general "Which of these is your favourite musical?", why is there not somewhere for Leah and me to vote "None"?
If the question should have been a more general "Which of these is your favourite musical?", why is there not somewhere for Leah and me to vote "None"?
RE: Musical Bashers.
Sun, 15 July 2001, 04:26 pmWalter Plinge
Gill averred ardently:
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*Music, dance and theatre are all wonderful, equally valid and important artforms. I find it difficult to understand why some people think they become less valid when all three are combined.
Yes, all three discplines are wondrous- music obviously is my greatest passion, the Dramatic is a very close second, and whilst I know virtually nothing of Dance, I appreciate its requirements of skill and talent of the part of its practitioners. My grievance with musicals stems from the fact that all three are usually given short shrift. Rarely have I encountered a musical in which all three arts (and I emphasise ALL THREE) reach the levels of perfection they can when in their own evironments. I have not heard a musical score which can compare to the symphonic works of Shostakovitch, not read an libretto of a musical to parallel the works of Stoppard or Miller, and does the choreography of most musicals rival the work of Nijinsky or Martha Graham?
This, I believe, is the intrinsic flaw of the Musical- there is no room in its format to lend the proper weight to its foundation disciplines. Obviously there are exceptions (predominately Sondheim springs to mind), but these are few- and unpopular.
*All I can think is that if these "musical bashers" could actually sing and dance it could be a completely different story.
Steady there, Gill.... although I admit my dancing is pathetically "white".
*To all the bashers: May the tunes to a hundred Rogers and Hammerstein songs get stuck in your heads:
That's the trouble- they DO! I wouldn't mind so much if they were any good....
Eliot
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*Music, dance and theatre are all wonderful, equally valid and important artforms. I find it difficult to understand why some people think they become less valid when all three are combined.
Yes, all three discplines are wondrous- music obviously is my greatest passion, the Dramatic is a very close second, and whilst I know virtually nothing of Dance, I appreciate its requirements of skill and talent of the part of its practitioners. My grievance with musicals stems from the fact that all three are usually given short shrift. Rarely have I encountered a musical in which all three arts (and I emphasise ALL THREE) reach the levels of perfection they can when in their own evironments. I have not heard a musical score which can compare to the symphonic works of Shostakovitch, not read an libretto of a musical to parallel the works of Stoppard or Miller, and does the choreography of most musicals rival the work of Nijinsky or Martha Graham?
This, I believe, is the intrinsic flaw of the Musical- there is no room in its format to lend the proper weight to its foundation disciplines. Obviously there are exceptions (predominately Sondheim springs to mind), but these are few- and unpopular.
*All I can think is that if these "musical bashers" could actually sing and dance it could be a completely different story.
Steady there, Gill.... although I admit my dancing is pathetically "white".
*To all the bashers: May the tunes to a hundred Rogers and Hammerstein songs get stuck in your heads:
That's the trouble- they DO! I wouldn't mind so much if they were any good....
Eliot
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