Shows you just don't "get" — Page 6

Grey Gardens
Floyd Collins
Light in the Piazza
I really want to like these musicals but I just can't get them.

I haven't seen The Wedding Singer, Avenue Q, or Oklahoma, but from what I've heard, and the snidbits of videos and songs I have seen/heard from these shows, I don't really konw whats so special. although if I saw them they might surprise me. but I hardly Doubt that. But ones I have seen that I don't get are,

Jesus Christ Superstar- just a really stupid musical idea.

Mamma Mia- It was the third show I ever saw, I was like 6 or 7 and loved it then. but now, I'm just like, ew. It's just rather cheesy and unlogical.

Beauty and the Beast. 1st show I ever saw. I still appreciate it now and all, but; whats with all the hype?

Le mis revival- Never seen the original (I haven't been around the long lol) so I can't compare them. It's not that I didn't like it, it was just too long, and wasn't the most captavating show ever. (not saying that every show has to be, I LOVE like Spelling bee and Spamalot) I just don't see whats soooo absolutely amazing about it.

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cats!!! BY FAR!!

Lion King. I totally agree. I didn't "get" the movie. It's blatently racist, and I just don't understand how it got out of the box.

The bad guys are dark, accented or disfigured. Hello? How is this something that we want to teach our children?

I'm sorry, but I just *hate* Elton John's music.

In the movie and the show, the only good part is the opening Circle of Life stuff. After that? Zzzzzzz.

"The bad guys are dark, accented or disfigured. Hello? How is this something that we want to teach our children?"

You mean like in virtually any other animated film or film based on comic book heroes? Or westerns? Or virtually any other good guy/bad guy flick. Disfigured/dark characters/clothes representing evil character traits has deep-rooted symbology in Western culture going back for centuries. Where do you think the term "shady" came from? The only "racial" issue regarding the film version of Lion King that I know of were the casting of voices for the hyenas. Other than that, the rest is bogus. In the Broadway production, the cast is mostly African Americans including the roles of the lions (heroes). The most evil character in the film and the Broadway production is played by a WHITE MAN (during which the film references Hitler). So, I think the ludicrous idea of the musical being labeled as "racist" (much less "blatently" [sic]) must have been drummed up by people who know virtually nothing about the show, but wanted to create negative buzz against an internationally popular phenomenon.

PS - The African dialects in the show are almost entirely spoken by the good characters, not the bad ones. The British dialects are only spoken by two characters, one slightly annoying (but a good guy) and Scar, the most evil. If it is racist in any manner, it is against Caucasians, but I never felt that way about it.

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Bombay Dreams

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