Is Fun Home too good for Broadway — Page 6

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Edited for my own peace of mind---sorry to those that might already have read my dribble--lack of early morning caffine [my excuse].

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Updated On: 5/31/16 at 04:11 PM

After Eight said: ""After Eight is mad that Jerry Herman isn't writing every show on Broadway and doesn't understand why people want something different."



I understand that the elitist arbiters of culture have had the power to impose their wants upon the rest of us. What everyone else wanted/wants is another matter entirely. But now it no longer matters what everyone else wanted/wants because the damage has already been done, and we just have to settle for what we've got. Sad, really, but then, no one ever said life was a bed of roses. Those of us who were fortunate enough to smell them while they were in bloom should be eternally grateful to have had that opportunity. I know I am.



Or maybe people just have different tastes than you. We get it, you like traditional, old-fashioned musicals, and that's fine. But that's simply not what the majority of modern audiences want. That's what old-fashioned means. You can sit around complaining that there are shows on Broadway that don't interest you, or you can just be thankful for the King and Is and She Loves Mes and Tuck Everlastings and so forth that you do get. With 40 theaters, there's room for all kinds. But there's no insidious plot going on, other than the same cultural progress and evolution that affects all art forms.

Updated On: 5/31/16 at 04:45 PM

This person was defending American Psycho in another thread but has an issue with Fun Home's subject matter. I don't quite understand that.

So an adult attracted to his underage students, just read details on the show. Sure.... that's lovely. I'm not the only one who is not thrilled with the subject.

You thought that was the subject of the show? And your "friend" who "saw it" thought it condones pedophilia? And that there is an agenda to condone pedophilia, including all theatre critics? How long have you been addicted to crack? Either you get your facts from the Million Moms blogosphere or you Trump up your own facts just to be incendiary because you don't actually know anything about it. It's lunacy.

In the interest of fairness , I will read the book for which it is based on and try to catch the musical , than give you a fair analysis

You should try again as a new identity Usher. Hate and Jordan thank you. Miss my guys. You two and Growlie fill the void.

"But that's simply not what the majority of modern audiences want."

Wants are created, wants are learned: An entire industry is based on that. Wants are also delimited by what one knows and what one is offered. If one doesn't know what chocolate mousse is, and there's none served, one isn't going to want it. One is going to want whatever glop is served so long as it fills the belly. And after a steady diet of glop, one would consider it the norm and of value, especially if the powers-that-be want you to eat it and proclaim it wonderful. The problem is, those of us lucky enough to have enjoyed mousse and chateau d'Yquem on a daily basis know that glop and stale beer are a huge step down, and they just don't cut the mustard.

"That's what old-fashioned means."

Merit is everlasting. An eighteenth-century Sèvres plate is worth more than the paper covering a greasy hamburger.

"the same cultural progress and evolution that affects all art forms."

Cultural decay and devolution, inflicted upon us.

Going from lilac trees in "On the Street Where You Live" to Joan's ass in her Levi's is not progress. Going from "A Sleeping Bee" to ****ing frogs is not progress. It's going DOWN. Way, way, down.

Imelda,

My Fair Lady, Hello, Dolly! , Mame, Dear World, The Sound of Music, No, No, Nanette, Whoopee, so many others... basically all the classics, and many musicals that few know nowadays.

After Eight said: ""But that's simply not what the majority of modern audiences want."

Wants are created, wants are learned: An entire industry is based on that. Wants are also delimited by what one knows and what one is offered. If one doesn't know what chocolate mousse is, and there's none served, one isn't going to want it. One is going to want whatever glop is served so long as it fills the belly.

But what happens when mousse is served alongside the glop, and everyone chooses the glop? Maybe the glop isn't so bad. Maybe what's glop to you is ambrosia to other people. We obviously are offered mousse on a regular basis -- we've even got one of your favorite musicals coming next spring -- but sometimes people don't want mousse. They want flan, or creme brulee, or sticky toffee pudding. And that's okay, too. Sometimes they want a Fun Home but they don't want an On the Town. That's the business.

Right.... Trump hates gays....... You're delusional

After Eight said: ""But what happens when mousse is served alongside the glop, and everyone chooses the glop?"

Then we're in a really bad way. Actually, I explained this to you in my previous post. Reread it if interested.


No, you didn't. You said there's no mousse being served, I'm saying ... aw, forget it.

It must be hard being the only person in the world with good taste.

After 8, I think you suffer with being born too early. Time marches on and things change but you're apparently stuck in the past. I'm also "old" and although I can't understand why some of today's art is considered good, I do love some of it.