TOMMY TUNE's "TURN OF THE CENTURY"- Page 5

[lovesclassics]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 12:48pm

What's kind of amazing to me is that all of us "lay people" and most of the critics are pretty much on the same page with what's wrong with the show and what the writers could do to make it better. So my question is, how did they not see what we are seeing as they were developing it? Or did they just run out of time once they saw it on its feet?

[Patash]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 12:53pm

commasplice, that last part of your post makes a lot of sense to me, and helps explain just why I really didn't care about their relationship -- there just wasn't enough of a relationship to care about!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 1:40pm

Yeah, right off the bat they painted Dixie as sort of pathetic since she was all shook up about a guy who didn't call her back after a one-nighter (couple that with a song about her therapist and you start to wonder if she needs medication more than she does a trip through time). And the fact that she chooses him to help raise their child with his rather despicable track record only makes her appear more desperate. To me, it reeked of right wing "traditional family values" propoganda. We really needed more evidence of his transformation and the solidification of their relationship in order to give a damn. Otherwise, we are led to believe that Dixie must have regressed back to the pre-feminist sensibility of the early twentieth century.

So, what the hell is the show about? I think my mother said it best: "It should have been a revue."

[lakezurich]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 9:54am

I was really confused as to how one night at a bar leads to Billy having this life changing moment, and deciding he was now going to be a different person.