How Do You Describe Your Favorite Musicals To People Who Have Never Heard Of Them? — Page 2

Weez- At TKTS if you were to use those descriptions, the patrons would say, "That's a musical?"

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Singtopher - it's almost like you got my point. :) Challenging misconceptions, that's me!

How does one describe August: Osage County to someone? I never know what to say when people ask me because there's just so much that goes on, haha.

From my LJ the day after I saw it:
"So anyway, August: Osage County really IS all that and a bag of chips. The Westons are easily the least functional family I've ever seen onstage, and that includes not only the Hamlets of Denmark but also over eighty years of English monarchy as filtered through Shakespeare's propaganda machine. As dark comedies go, I don't think I've ever seen anything onstage that managed to be SO dark yet SO funny and also SO good. If you picture a Venn diagram covering "dark", "funny", and "awesome", then August is SMACK in the middle. :3"

So that's:
- All that and a bag of chips.
- The least functional family you'll ever see onstage, and that includes eighty years of English monarchy as filtered through Shakespeare's propaganda machine.
- If you picture a Venn diagram covering "dark", "funny", and "awesome", then August is SMACK in the middle.

Well, that's lovely then!

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Next to Normal-"it's about this bi-polar mother, and how their family tries to deal with it."

White Noise(not a favorite but interesting)-"it's a anti-racist musical about a white pride band"

Aida- "It's like Romeo and Juliet, with one extra person."

Ragtime:
3 groups of people living in the turn of the century. I guess it doesn't have to be TOO detailed.

Spring Awakening:
A bunch of horny teenagers rebel against conservative adults but end up dying, getting pregnent, committing suicide, and beating each other.

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Ragtime - basically the Doctorow novel, but set to jaunty tunes. 8D

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It's a musical about the joy that is pie. It had that old lady from "Murder She Wrote."

It's about a fat girl who fights racism...don't remember that one? Well, it's the one where her mom's played by a woman. Yes, the movie had John Travolta. -Hairspray

It's a musical about an ugly guy in love with a teenager who's in love with a pretty guy, and it's all in an Opera House. -PotO

1.) "It's about two seasoned customer-service professionals in an over-populated city who help decrease the surplus population by opening up a new restaurant for carnivores."

2.) "It's about a nun who overthrows the Nazis with a guitar and some old curtains."

3.) "It's about an actress who breaks character a lot and screams at the audience...oh, and a stripper's in it, too."

4.) "It's about a refrigerator that farts show people who sing kinda funny."

5.) "It's about an ogre, a princess, a donkey, and flatulence."

Updated On: 7/20/09 at 02:18 PM