CURRENT ISSUES ON BROADWAY?

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Wanna Be... you are now my hero

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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.

Updated On: 7/25/06 at 01:49 AM

I... don't understand what you're asking...?

"Help! I have an assignment due in 6 hours! Could you give me answers?"

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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 :)

-BCR

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!

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like the song Jasonf,
a musical on war would be very interesting and pretty good if done right

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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.

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Updated On: 7/25/06 at 07:28 PM

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?

However common Homesexuality itself is in theater, I think it would be interesting to see a peice involving Gay Marraige.

Euthanasia could be very interesting as well.

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Hm...Euthanasia...that would be interesting. Not sure how it would work, but it would def. take a talented composer to get that idea to work.