Hushpuppy,
Just think about that year when Avenue Q won the Tony: Avenue Q, I am my own wife, Frozen all won awards and all either had gay or sadistic themes. There were a lot more that the critics at the NYTimes were pushing that year as well. I remember going to many of them and literally having penises stuck in my face, sometimes within a feet or two. As I asked in one of my reviews: Why is it considered art in Manhattan to see male-genitalia flung onstage, but inappropriate to see the female body? If I raise an eyebrow by my reviews, it should cause you to ponder how over-the-line and lopsided shows on or off Broadway have become.
As far as Bombay Dreams, AR Rahman is the composer. He has sold over a million albums of his music from Bollywood movies. In fact, many of the scores of Bombay Dreams were directly taken from movies likes "Taal", "Laagan", and others. (Have you seen any? I doubt it.) According to the documentary, Andrew insisted that AR Rahman to put some of his Bollywood hits in the score. In fact, Andrew himself rewrote some of the other music to fit into a musical format. (Did you know that?) Of course, Andrew is only accredited as the producer, but the musical was sold to the public with Andrew's name because the public here is not well acquainted yet with Bollywood.
By the way, Bombay Dreams was a great, new musical for the family and intermixed couples, but got severely panned by Ben and others. I took much offense to their short-sitedness, which prompted me to express my opinions to them. I went four-five times and saw that the general-public genuinely liked the show. You couldn't even get seats the last weeks of it.
Ok, I am renaming my site, the police of broadway.
-tears
But, of course, a sophisticated taste require us to listen to the critics and accept Frozen as good theatre.
Updated On: 6/18/06 at 11:17 AM
