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DeNada said: "Having only watched the (in my opinion, pretty terrible) film recently, there's only one bit of "flying" in what I presume is the second act of the stage show anyway, isn't there - when the vampires attack the family home at the end (and even then in the film they just use crane shots to do it). I can see why, if they're beholden to that story structure, there isn't much else to see."

I think the movie's pretty terrible, to

CATSNYrevival said: "This album and the current production is about 20 minutes shorter than the complete symphonic recording, reflecting the various cuts made over the years. It will also have the newer orchestrations. This production was recordedfor the 25th anniversary 2010 cast album, but even though it was recorded live they did not release the complete score.It was recordedagain in 2020 but that concert production was also not the complete score,so this new album will technicall

EricMontreal22 said: "I think it DID make a difference to hear about Sondheim from gay men. Usually I wouldn't say that mattered, but I've gotten a bit annoyed lately with the writing about Sondheim that seems to keep his sexuality as a footnote and I think it is because it's mostly been written by straight men who either aren't comfortable addressing that, or feel his sexuality shouldn't be relevant (even though there's been much talk about just how being Jew

B.JAMES said: "DrMonicaDeMoneco said: "steven22 said: "I saw the show last night through TDF ended up with two tickets on the side of the orchestra row. They were fantastic seats, especially with the reorganization of the palace theater seating I think.
I was really pleasantly surprised with this show. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would’ve. Shoshana Bean, LJ Benet, and Ali Louis Bourzgui blew me away. and the special effects and the music were

TotallyEffed said: "Sure. The biggest difference is that in England, camp oftensimply means that something or someone isvery gay. We might refer to someone as a queen, over there they'd say that person is camp.If you go out to a piano or drag bar, you could say you had a "camp time." It can also be used similarlyto the way we use it, to describe someone or something that is over the top, theatrical, flamboyant, orexaggerated.

So referencingBette Davis movies,

I'm about 2/3's through the series, and there are two things that continually irk me. 1) Use of the word "camp" where it really doesn't apply: witty or satirical or off-beat would often be the more accurate adjective in a given case (and I love camp, btw, so this isn't some kind of attempt to distance Sondheim from an enjoyment of it). 2) A seeming inability to recognize that a combination of Sondheim's unique relationship with them or their meeting him

TotallyEffed said: "The Wiz is proudly andprofoundlyBlack. I don’t think itsBlackness is subtext."

If we're talking Geoffery Holder's original production, definitely in the design, and the argot of the lyrics refects the (then) contemporary Black idiom. But there are no specific references to Blackness anywhere in it. Dreamgirls overtly addresses white people stealing Black material, and Blacks shut out of the power structure in American m