"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
If the question is "What current issues in the media today should be the subjects of prospective Broadway musicals?", then I believe that most already are.
Homosexual love/marriage and racism are both discussed in THE COLOR PURPLE and AVENUE Q, which are two of the most different shows that are currently on Broadway. Everything in between is discussed as well.
In fact, I'd love to hear a theme that can't be found in a show. (That's not meant to sound mean -- I actually think all themes are covered in at least one Broadway show!)
Racial profiling and racism. Abortion. I think it would be interesting to have a show where the guy is the one with the weight problem. Also, I'd love to see a show on Broadway where the leads are fat, but the show doesn't have a thing to do with weight.
Also, I don't get the idea of writers adding homosexuality to a musical to make it modern or contemporary? I'm in no way bashing homosexuality, I don't mind it, but what I don't understand is why in "The Full Monty" do they have to add the little "almost-a-kiss" thing between Malcom and Ethan? I didn't understand the point of adding that. Sorry, just something I've thought about.
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"Also, I don't get the idea of writers adding homosexuality to a musical to make it modern or contemporary? I'm in no way bashing homosexuality, I don't mind it, but what I don't understand is why in "The Full Monty" do they have to add the little "almost-a-kiss" thing between Malcom and Ethan? I didn't understand the point of adding that. Sorry, just something I've thought about."
How about that it might give someone, other than a totally straight person, a chance to relate to a theatrical romance? That's always nice. It's not fun for homosexual people to watch heterosexual romances in plays/movies over and over again if they cannot relate. Just as it would be vice versa for a totally heterosexual person to watch only gay love stories. Gay/Bi/Lesbian issues are relevant - they always have been - but it's only in recent history that it has become commercially viable to publically address those issues overtly in art.
I say this with ALL kindness and calmness: I would say that the next time you see a play or musical, or a movie, with such a gay-additive as you have referred to, just ruminate over why it bothers you. Try to get past that and relate to what the characters are going through. It's just love and/or sex... it's all the same heart-beating and sweating in the end :)
If you're asking me to do that, why can't you do it? It's not the idea of it that bothers me, it's the fact that they had to add it in there. I love the show. It's one of my favorite recent shows, but I just don't understand that scene. I know I'm getting under a lot of people's skin, and I hope I'm not coming off wrong, but I just don't think it was needed. What's wrong with love? Whether it's straight/gay/lesbian/bi/asexual, whatever. I just dont think they needed to add it to "relate" to audiences today.
Soldier: (MARCH) I'm going off Going off to Iraq Got the weight of the world Right here on my back
Our president says it's all for good But I'd like to know if he would Send his own children to fight For this war he thinks is so right
I'm going off Going off to Iraq Kissed my girl told her I'd hurry back
(TEMPO CHANGE - slower) But that was three years ago And I'm so sick of sun and the sand I miss my girl and home and even now I still just don't understand
Why I was sent off Why I was sent off to Iraq But they keep promising me When all Iraqis are free That they WILL SEND ME BACK!
like the song Jasonf, a musical on war would be very interesting and pretty good if done right
Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone and ta'en thy wages:
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.
~Cymbeline
May I please bring your attention to an off-Broadway show called Spring Awakening? It deals with rape, and abortion, and some other touchy issues.
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answer, and the H in ghost, and the extra A in aardvark, and the T in listen, you could keep saying WHAT but no one would ever hear you because the whole word would be silent."
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I'm in no way bashing homosexuality, I don't mind it, but what I don't understand is why in "The Full Monty" do they have to add the little "almost-a-kiss" thing between Malcom and Ethan? I didn't understand the point of adding that. Sorry, just something I've thought about.
It's not the idea of it that bothers me, it's the fact that they had to add it in there. I love the show. It's one of my favorite recent shows, but I just don't understand that scene. I know I'm getting under a lot of people's skin, and I hope I'm not coming off wrong, but I just don't think it was needed. What's wrong with love? Whether it's straight/gay/lesbian/bi/asexual, whatever. I just dont think they needed to add it to "relate" to audiences today.
OK Rentboy, you're making a total fool of yourself. THE FULL MONTY, the film upon which the musical is based, was written with the romance between Malcolm and Ethan. It's in the source material. So if you're going to be angry (yet again) at someone, be angry with the writers of the film, which just happened to have been nominated for BEST PICTURE at The Academy Awards. It wasn't "added in". It was part of the original story.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
RentBoy - As Wanna Be A Foster said, the little kiss was in the movie.
And the point is that those two characters are gay. It wasn't JUST a little kiss. It was the beginning of a budding romance when both characters realize they are attracted to each other. Or did you miss the funeral scene?
I had seen the movie, but I didn't see that. I wasn't getting "angry" - that's all the answer I had wanted. Thanks.
And DoctorDolittel - too much for you :)
No, see, you all interupt stuff however you want. What I meant was I didn't understand why they "added" it in, but as I stated, I was mistaken. Thanks. I love the play, and one of my dream roles is to play Malcom, I just found it odd that they would have to "add" something like that in to make it "contemporary" or "american." That's all I was trying to say.