SATIRE HELP!!!

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:08am

I need help finding some plays/musicals that are satires. Obvious satire is good. Recent Broadway works are best!!!
Thanks!!!

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:09am

a class act.
little shop of horrors.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:11am

how are they satires????????????

I would say:

Urinetown
Of Thee I Sing

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:13am

I am familiar with Urinetown's music and concept, but what was it meant to satirize, munk???

Little Shop???

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:14am

It was a satire on society, politics, and other Broadway musicals.

I don't see how Little Shop is really a satire...unless it's spoofing old "horror" movies, but that's not a very strong satire.

And I don't see how A CLASS ACT is a satire AT ALL...

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:17am

Thanks, Munk!!!

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:20am

little shop is definitely a satire on society and fear, not to mention the roles of the urchins.

perhaps i'm remembering a class act wrong.

but i would agree with urinetown.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:22am

A satire on society and fear? Honestly, I 100% disagree with you...

SWEENEY TODD is very much a satire on society and declining morals of mankind.

INTO THE WOODS is sort of a satire about growing up, and, again, faith in mankind.

COMPANY is also a satire on middle class people.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:27am

into the woods is definitely a satire. especially the second act. we'll have to disagree about little shop. oh well. spelling bee is satire! haha.

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:29am

HOW COULD I LEAVE OUT INTO THE WOODS???!!!???

Thanks for the reminder.

What about negative satires???

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:30am

Well, INTO THE WOODS and SWEENEY TODD aren't exactly positive satires...

As far as plays, definitely THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:30am

oh, did you want plays too?

negative satires? like shows that satirize the bad things? urinetown is a good answer for that. but i'm unclear on what you mean.


HOW COULD I FORGET? THE PRODUCERS.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:32am

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is pure satire for a straight show.

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:32am

I need a satire that puts an issue or idea into VERY negative light or perspective.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:33am

Sweeney Todd, without a doubt

[chasgoose]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:34am

David Mamet's recent play "Romance" is apparently a satire of his signature rat-a-tat style.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 3:39am

Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (individuals, organizations, states) often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. -from wikipedia.

i'm not sure i agree with sweeney, but putting something in a negative light? normally satire is humourous, because it's a contrast. so i'm not sure i really understand can think of that.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 4:07am

House of Blue Leaves by John Guare
Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare
Almost everything by Oscar Wilde
Wrong Mountain by David Hirson
La Bete by David Hirson

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 4:09am

i haven't seen margo in some time.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 4:14am

Margo's laptop died and Margo is now operating on an ancient old desktop via dial-up, so it's far too much trouble to try and post most of the time, hence my absence.

Add Beyond Therapy by Durang to the list.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 4:18am

And maybe "THe Marriage of Bette and Boo" by Durang

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 4:19am

oh beyond therapy. god yes!

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 4/5/05 at 4:50am

Thanks Margo and apdarcey!!!