#1
Posted: 9/11/09 at 2:10am
Maybe this is really obscure, but does anyone notice how the central characters of musicals in the past decades or so, have been in some way a misfit? Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray, Elphaba in Wicked, the title character of Phantom, the young characters of Spelling Bee, in her own way, Elle Woods of Legally Blonde, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Caroline in Caroline, Or Change, Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, and many others since at least the late 80's. Maybe a reason many people like musical theatre or Broadway is because they can relate to the characters who are out of place in some way.
If I were a woman, I'd marry Stephen Joshua Sondheim. But then again, he's gay, so....
"They say the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examining becomes your life? Is that living or just procastinating?" - Carrie Bradshaw
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts...." - William Shakespeare
