Comments on: I Hate Musicals https://conradaskland.com/blog/i-hate-musicals/ Music Director and Music Technology Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:33:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Seaumas https://conradaskland.com/blog/i-hate-musicals/#comment-407392 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:33:35 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/?p=5108#comment-407392 Most musicals have not progressed past the Ethel Merman, Rogers and Hammerstein, Rogers and Hart stage. Whatever it is is usually standout loud, over-acted, ethnically hammered and outlandishly choreographed. Its just too damned “stagey” and regardless of what Broadway likes to think and proclaim, it didn’t invent stage musicals. Now Sondheim comes out and denounces the new production of “Porgy and Bess” (still in Boston) without having talked to one person in it or having seen it. What I saw I loved and was refreshed. Well, Steve, I’m not sure I even liked your umpteenth version of “Romeo and Juliet”. Bring me something new because I sure ain’t gonna spend $100 for cheap seats in raggedy New York for anymore stinking and unimaginative repertory regurgitations. Not even on Cape Cod.

]]> By: Laura https://conradaskland.com/blog/i-hate-musicals/#comment-217311 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:00:42 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/?p=5108#comment-217311 “But for that 2 hours or so the audience has gone somewhere else.”

So true, and what a gift the audience receives! We are granted full permission to vicariously recall the thrill we
knew as children engrossed in the world of imagination.
There, we never missed an opportunity to laugh uproariously,
dance with abandon, and find sheer glee in the freedom of silliness. We pictured ourselves as heroes, and were entirely
satisfied with ourselves at the end of the day. It is no
small thing to possess talents which leave others happier, refreshed and renewed, so break a leg!

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