blaxx said: "joevitus said: "blaxx said: "TheatreFan4 said: "I think it's supposed to be Hollywood, because Molina makes a big point about them white washing Ingrid Luna."
But it's obviously not Hollywood, as Hollywood in the era would not have had movies with 100% Latinos starring.
Anyway, too bad the budget didn't allow for more exciting musical numbers, both visually and choreographically."
It's almost like it's a fantasy sequence or something. I mean, you are familiar with the show, yes?"
More than most shows, love. This is one where the Prince production puts the film to shame when it comes to musical numbers. No electricity, no fear for her, just a bunch of clichés and stereotypes that the stage production is not.
If you think it's a masterpiece, so be it."
I may wind up hating it, who knows, but complaining that the staging of the musical numbers doesn't have enough quick cuts and that the sequences can't be meant as MGM musicals because the cast is Latin is just...bizarre. We're seeing Molina's mental recreation of movies he's watched. And if Condon wants to imagine that MGM surrounded a Latina star with Latin extras (or that Molina is remembering them as such), I don't see that as any great failure on the part of the produciton. You could point out in terms of the stage version that musicals of the era never involved Russian countesses being shot on the streets of Moscow and no musical star of the era would have been cast as a monster/fatale like the Spider Woman. In the world of this musical, one Hollywood star did.
Updated On: 10/3/25 at 12:58 AM
