Please forgive me if this has already been answered, but will the West End production feature the same songs, new songs, or reorchestrations of the same songs? Something else?
I was thinking about some of the discussion here about to what degree the film and/or musical embodies camp or camp aspects. I was wondering how people define "camp"? Then I accidentally came across this article titled "The Queer Immortality of Death Becomes Her", which I thought was interesting and I thought I'd share: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/meryl-streep/death-becomes-her-queer-immortality
I'm especially curious about what you all think about this quote: "Death Becomes Her is a queer film, but not necessarily a campy film. That’s because it doesn’t draw any attention to the production of queer labor, which is to say it neither labors queerly nor highlights the labor of queers, either of which first needs to be present before camp can take root."
The one that immediately came to mind is "Popular" from Wicked:
"And with an assist from me To be who you'll be Instead of dreary who you were Well, are There's nothing that can stop you From becoming popu-ler... lar"
Although Glinda doesn't explicitly explain it away, she attempts to correct the rhyme. Fun thread topic!
I'm really excited for this! I see Rob Lake from AGT is designing the illusions. I wonder if this may be an indication of what we might see illusion-wise (forward to around (9:31):
BrodyFosse123 said: "Hahaha. Just watched the video (you posted the same video link twice) about 10 times to see WHERE on Earth you saw cars driving backwards. Every car seen in this footage is driving forward."
1. A musical adaptation of the Coen Brothers' film "The Hudsucker Proxy."
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So the Maitlands don't visit the Underworld at all? Is this to shift the focus from them as protagonists to Lydia?
CarlosAlberto said: "sherie_worshipper said: "CarlosAlberto, what a brave and beautiful thing to do. Sometimes I remember why I love this community. Thank you."
I heard the song "Bye Bye Baby" from the musical "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" last night on Sirius FM Broadway, and it struck me what a beautiful singing voice Marilyn had. She sang in that very stylized, affected 50s Hollywood style, but she had a beautiful vibrato and trill to her singing.
People seem always to debate the virtues (or lack thereof) of her acting, but people rarely comment on what a stellar singing voice she had! I happen to think she was a brilliant
