A new musical subject..?
Sun, 16 Sept 2001, 03:31 amcrgwllms12 posts in thread
A new musical subject..?
Sun, 16 Sept 2001, 03:31 amIf we were going to create a new musical, what should the title and topic be?
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issues not the issue
Tue, 18 Sept 2001, 05:36 amSol wrote:
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>>isn't the issue being explored to do with whether such issues can be the main subject matter rather than just an underlying theme?
Okay. Why is it that ANY story has the "boy meets girl" or the "good versus bad" plot? They seem to be universal qualities of storytelling. SCHINDLER'S LIST had highly emotive "good vs bad" threads, and not just "Germans vs Allies" but the more complex qualities of evil vs morality within one man's character. Remove these and you are left with a history but not really a story, and I don't personally want to see a musical that has no element of human story.
Glynn thought political subjects would become obsolete because of their topicality, so I suggest that they would need to be more global and less topical.
EVITA is in a political context from which you can draw parallels to today's world situation, while you are lapping at your latte. But to create a story of interest to the theatre-going public, it needs the "boy-girl" element.
Someone could put the events of this weeks newspapers to music, but it couldn't be a musical until you focussed on characters. In fact, perhaps that is MY suggestion for the list - a musical about what drives someone to horrendous acts of terrorism. Sounds like a contender for a Tony, no?
But no, all this was not really the issue being explored. I am less interested in what CAN'T be used as a theme for a new musical, and more interested in suggestions for what CAN.
Craig
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>>isn't the issue being explored to do with whether such issues can be the main subject matter rather than just an underlying theme?
Okay. Why is it that ANY story has the "boy meets girl" or the "good versus bad" plot? They seem to be universal qualities of storytelling. SCHINDLER'S LIST had highly emotive "good vs bad" threads, and not just "Germans vs Allies" but the more complex qualities of evil vs morality within one man's character. Remove these and you are left with a history but not really a story, and I don't personally want to see a musical that has no element of human story.
Glynn thought political subjects would become obsolete because of their topicality, so I suggest that they would need to be more global and less topical.
EVITA is in a political context from which you can draw parallels to today's world situation, while you are lapping at your latte. But to create a story of interest to the theatre-going public, it needs the "boy-girl" element.
Someone could put the events of this weeks newspapers to music, but it couldn't be a musical until you focussed on characters. In fact, perhaps that is MY suggestion for the list - a musical about what drives someone to horrendous acts of terrorism. Sounds like a contender for a Tony, no?
But no, all this was not really the issue being explored. I am less interested in what CAN'T be used as a theme for a new musical, and more interested in suggestions for what CAN.
Craig
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monitorlizard
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