Stew Bashes Musical Theatre

Stew can shove that jewelery up his T-rex ass.

I actually liked him on the TONYS I thought he was funny & someone I would like to hang out with. That was until I heard all his **** flying out of the mouth. I'm better than you, classic theatre sucks, you need my show. What a pompous jackass.

oh jesus. his comment was on the music, many people have said that the power of opera music is such that you don't even have to read the lyrics to get the emotion the power. This is certainly not always true about musical theatre, where the songs and music work together. But as for the music in opera, it is certainly THE most important aspect of the work and the "confidence" (weird word choice, but whatever) of the music certainly can stand alone and do a lot more emotionally than typical show music. not that there aren't exceptions (ie: most of the greatest musicals written) but the majority of musicals rely on the words and music to work together towards a common emotional goal, where in opera it is different. the music has more "confidence".

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he thinks he is hte most revolutionary thing to happen to broadway but he is not

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As far as I can tell, the difference between MT and opera, apart from the musical style, is that opera is about the musical side whereas MT is about the theatre side. Opera has surtitles because the singer is making more with the music, whereas your enunciation is absolutely KEY in MT because people have to understand you straight-off.

Stew is still a d*** though. He strikes me as one of these people who often makes good points, but sortof happens upon them accidentally rather than through any prolonged study.

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I understand where some of you think Stew is coming from, but I read it differently. I believe that he is saying that music (meaning notes and words together) are not enough to tell the story, that they are just thrown in there, interrupt the show, and then stop to let the action continue. Maybe I read it completely wrong, but knowing Stew and his pompous attitude I highly doubt it.

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Wait- the smartest show of all time? Are you HIGH?

jacobtsf: Ahh, yeah, I can see him meaning that. Wouldn't surprise me, either.

I very much dislike PS's score and I like rock. I just think it's very bland.

I always feel that if you hate musicals, why write one?

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Updated On: 9/7/08 at 10:15 PM

I thought PS was OK but not the great musical everyone thought it to be. Hell, if I do not get a CD of the score I really did not think that much of it.

But you do buy the Wildhorn CDs?

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Oh, in that part, I was responding to SirNotAppealing

I don't care what the man has to say anymore. I thought Passing Strange was fantastic, and that's all that matters.

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I actually get where he's coming from. I think he's not so much insulting musical theatre as he is just poorly phrasing the difference.

I would absolutely agree that the difference between musical theatre and opera is that musical theatre acknowledges the fact that music alone cannot tell the story and therefore uses it to enhance an already existing story, and tells the story using lyrics and acting. Opera, on the other hand, tries to strive to make the music the ONLY thing that matters. In the end, I think this was just poor phrasing on Stew's part.