Why Are Musicals Such An Acquired Taste?- Page 3

[winston89]

Posted: 1/15/07 at 8:26am

As a hardcore classic rock fan I don't think that there is or ever will be a good decent rock musical. All the rock musicals out there use sugercoated theatre rock. I was a HUGE who fan before I listend to the OBC of TOMMY. After I listend to it I asked myself what was Townshend thinking.

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 8:46pm

"Good decent rock musical" is an oxymoron.







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[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/16/07 at 9:02pm

"Bursting into song is as natural a human phenomenon as breathing. To claim the musical genre is foreign or unreal to contemporary audiences is unbelievably perverse and false and a dodge of the first order. The blame falls not on audiences but the dim-witted, untalented boneheads on Broadway and in Hollywood who have not an idea of how to assemble a musical and for whom the idea of craftsmanship is an alien concept. To create a musical that erupts into song naturally and spontaneously was as hard for Rodgers and Hammerstein as it was for Sondheim and anybody else. The contemporary writers/directors/producers simply need to roll up their sleeves and get to work and stop blaming the audiences for their own laziness, ineptitude and lack of ability. But I wouldn't hold my breath."

Seriously, find another field of interest. This is clearly not the one for you.

[dented146]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 2:09am

I think that musicals offer an escape which often requires a greater romantic disposition. I've always loved musicals but I was raised in a more romantic era. And romance is harder to find.

People seem to want the romance that you find in a movie such as Sleepless in Seattle but how many make the effort to find and keep it. The notion of a man or woman bursting out into song to express their feelings must seem very foreign to most young people.










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[nztheatreluva]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 2:37am

I just don't get how people can't accept people bursting into song. There's things in every genre of movie that aren't realistic. Hell, movies themselves aren't realistic. So why not this? I mean, I literally do burst into song all the time. If a song pops into my head that suits how I feel, then I sing it. So it does actually happen(although not so much the choreographed dancing and chorus singing

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 9:05am

Well, really it what our culture has dumped on us about musicals and theatre as a whole. Same thing with horror movies. By the mid-70's, horror movies were grade B popcorn fluff and no one really took it seriously. Then when "Halloween" came out, it was not a huge it at first. After months and months of word of mouth it became a sensation and people started getting into horror again. Then by the late 80's it started to get corny again and it dropped off the radar until "Scream."

What I am saying is, that in the 60's and 70's, musicals became so poorly done and corny that it started to become the culture's way of thinking that musicals were stupid and made no sense and blah blah blah. I think that now we are getting back to the movie musical is great form (Chicago, Dreamgirls, and to even some, RENT), more and more people are starting to get involved with them again and finding that they were wrong with their original thinking of what a musical is.