ChairinMain said: "Charley Kringas Inc said: "It does make me laugh that all of this is happening at the same time as Book of Mormon becomingone of the top ten longest-running shows, given the oversized influenceSouth Park has had in reintroducing casual antisemitism to new audiences."
South Park creator Matt Stone isJewish, and the show has always, ALWAYS made it clear that it's portrayal of antisemitic characters is satirical. Portrayal of antisemi
It does make me laugh that all of this is happening at the same time as Book of Mormon becoming one of the top ten longest-running shows, given the oversized influence South Park has had in reintroducing casual antisemitism to new audiences.
it's funny to me that their post was essentially pro-israel/zionist, in that it was spoofing overweening tumblrfied leftist identity politics ("unalived folx") and the way those are used in pro-palestine discussions, but because it's such a dark joke in such a hyper-specific format that's leveraging a real tragedy that literally just happened, it's sparking the exact kind of infighting and linguistics-warfare that the show mocks
Revisiting this score via the album confirms my intial impression, which is that most of Wainwright's music is really beautiful, and that the lyrics are almost universally eye-wateringly bad.
The first time I saw this show, I had the creeping doubt that it was only as funny as it was because it was fresh. The second time, I had the creeping doubt that it was only as funny as it was because of Cole, et al. The third time, I have no doubts that Oh, Mary! isn't just a great star vehicle for Cole Escola (this is the first alternate Mary I've seen), but a great star vehicle period, and a much more flexible comedy than I first thought.
Kinda crazy to me that this was the worse of the two Bob Martin flops this season. Jasmine Amy Rogers is a powerhouse (amazing how she can dominate the stage in the first half of the opening number when all you can see is her face) and there are some respectable melodies, but the book and set are both weirdly claustrophobic. Martin sets up a bunch of t-balls for himself and then whiffs basically all of them, and every scene feels like it's from a different draft of the script. And then th
In particular, they've been working on it since it closed, including "some pretty big revisions to tighten the show" and are hopeful for future productions. Malloy also mentions that the Morris dancers scene reminded him of Frogger, "so the music there is a hybrid of traditional Morris dancing and the theme music to Frogger", which absolutely flew over my head - compare the Frogger theme to the bit at 2:50 in Don't Say Mice.
