Brokeback on Broadway? — Page 2

"Why make a musical, an artform in which people express themselves through singing lyrics, based on a story about two people who are incapable of expressing themselves verbally?"

My junk is you, Ennis.

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<3 PalJoey

We deserve the right to speak truth to power.

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Why don't we get Elton John to write the score? If he can make gay vampires work then surely he can do gay cowboys justice!

I heard that Barry and Fran are willing to produce if Chris and Michael star. Their on air chemistry was to die for.

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I think my convoluted sentence mangled my point. My point wasn't people in musicals sang because they weren't verbal. My point was they sing...lyrics...they are being verbal (and musical at the same time) to express themselves. The entire point of Brokeback Mountain was that neither of these men could fine the words to express who they were...to each other and to the world. That's why I don't understand why anyone would think that BM would work as a musical.

As for the Sondheim point on SUNSET BLVD., I believe what he said was that the only way it could sing is if it were opera.

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