Will Chase on HiFi's Closing — Page 4

"Your finding the rap portion of that scene offensive only shows your racist view that only black people rap."

I don't think this means nomdeplume has a racist view...I just think he didn't like the content.

"You want to know what killed this show? A TERRIBLE advertising campaign with a TERRIBLE logo that spoke to NO ONE about the show. Well, that and mediocre writing."

I agree. The show got buried beneath the other Broadway shows terribly. I also think this was also a bad time for High Fidelity to open. This is the holiday season - shows that the whole family can see are hot right now. I don't consider High Fidelity something you would take the whole family to see. Perhaps late spring/early summer would've been a more appropriate opening when all the students are out of school...especially when High Fidelity is geared towards a young adult audience.

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Yeah, millie, I didn't like the content, but let me get more specific.

This rap song, performed by apparently all Caucasians, and involving a gun, shooting, and mistreatment just sits wrong. I don't think it's stretching to say that rap originated with black artists. And there has been a tremendous amount of criticism of the kind of rap which glorifies violence and is "counter-culture."

When you start associating guns and shooting with rap it immediately brings to mind the famous black rapper Tupac Shakur, who was shot twice and died a victim from his second shooting.

"Shakur claimed his first album was aimed at the problems facing young black males, but it was publicly criticized for its graphic language and images of violence by and against police. In one incident, a young man claimed his killing of a Texas trooper was inspired by the album."

The glorifying or celebrating of the violence in the musical is just so insensitive to the problems of those blacks who are living in more crime-ridden communities who are suffering from higher murder rates than other parts. And of those black rappers and DJs who have been gunned down, victims. That is a more specific explanation of why I and my friend didn't like it.
Tupac

Updated On: 12/17/06 at 12:57 AM

Do you have any black friends, Namo?

In fact, have you any friends at all?

Are you a bitter queen, Namo?

What a wonder is a gun!
What a versatile invention!
First of all when you've a gun-

*click*

Everybody pays attention!



Did you hate Assassins, too?

I can't even begin to understand nom's melodrama, it's absurd but back ON topic, the problem with this show from day one that everyone seems to be letting slide by was, is and will always be Walter Bobbie. Not saying the book, film needed a musical adaptation and as much as I enjoy Will Chase and even Colella (although how many times do we need it *proven* to us, through various firings and/or early demises that she's NOT a leading lady),this show was doomed the second they signed Bobbie on as the director. It was all downhill from there and also, love her father or not, Amanda Green is not a musical force to be reckoned with by any measure.

Good for you, Will! Bravo!
It was very well said, and it's about time a lead actor said something about these critics who have turned to divas and used their pens (or computers) as a tool to rule Broadway. I personally do not waste my time reading that writer's rants.

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