"As for a plot line, it all takes place in one evening at a party. A lot happens. Lives are changed. A relationship is destroyed. A person dies. What more do you want?"
For the door to spring open and the cops to rush in? I've always wondered why neither show went with the final eding of the poem. I suppose they wanted there to be atleast one little glimmer of hope and hapiness in an otherwise dramatic and depressing ending.
"There were a LOT of problems with the show- all those characters never really got defined, no real plot line. Pretty much the only character that isn't defined is Sally simply because she spends the entire show in a drug-induced haze and doesn't speak. Nothing is learned except for what True says of her, the validity of which is kinda faulty seeing as "Sally" doesn't even resond to that name when she sobers up.
So really that either says alot for the drugs or for True, who could be so starved for love that she made up the identity of this random woman she "found in the gutter."
Other characters that aren't given a full backstory and development during the show still have good stuff to work with: The Brothers D'Armano deal with trust, jealousy and infidelity, as well as Mae who deals with her regrets of leaving the theatre and personal image issues. Nadine is kind of a one dementional innocent girl yearning to be a grown up, but what Queenie, True and Jackie subject her to is simply disturbing, and the rape pounds the last nail making sure she'll probably never be the same after that night and will go the same way as Queenie and Dolores. There's a really interesting lineage in those three characters, a sorta going-there, in-there, been-there thing. Dolores tries to "help" Queenie but Queenie, even though she can see herself in Nadine, only stokes her fire.
...sorry I did an analysis of this show for a script class last year so I know way too much and look way too deep into this musical.
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
