Something hot and not literary
Happy birthday, justducky2204!
These Muppet-flavored runway designs are just upsetting. ...except maybe the Animal muff.
Was just thinking recently that most of my work (and I'm mighty proud to say it) is not kitchen-sink literalism. I enjoy doing things with theatre that can't be done in other media. ...except when it comes to musicals. Most of my musicals, as if to fight against the presentational form and the fact that everyone just starts singing from time to time, have been literal to the point of plodding.
Was intrigued by and disappointed in 33 Variations, which carasol took me along to see last night (I was too broke to go hear mollyx- hope it went well!) The play is alternately glorious and boring, with moments of genius and moments of utter predictability. The predictability is partly because the show is W;t meets Arcadia.
The fellow sitting next to me (a critic, I assume, as he was taking notes) was physically bored with it.
Acting is great. Jane Fonda is pretty awesome (am annoyed that people still bringing up Hanoi Jane in the comments here). Samantha Mathis is great on stage. Colin Hanks is cute, but kept sounding too much like his dad, which threw me out of things. Susan Kellermann rocks.
Live pianist playing the variations- AWESOME.
Interestingly the play uses the music in ways I've been working through with a new piece I've started but haven't shown to anyone yet. Must get to work on that.
carasol says she might have a midi file of my set of Variations on "C is for Cookie" on her computer... So it's maybe not entirely lost!
These Muppet-flavored runway designs are just upsetting. ...except maybe the Animal muff.
Was just thinking recently that most of my work (and I'm mighty proud to say it) is not kitchen-sink literalism. I enjoy doing things with theatre that can't be done in other media. ...except when it comes to musicals. Most of my musicals, as if to fight against the presentational form and the fact that everyone just starts singing from time to time, have been literal to the point of plodding.
Was intrigued by and disappointed in 33 Variations, which carasol took me along to see last night (I was too broke to go hear mollyx- hope it went well!) The play is alternately glorious and boring, with moments of genius and moments of utter predictability. The predictability is partly because the show is W;t meets Arcadia.
The fellow sitting next to me (a critic, I assume, as he was taking notes) was physically bored with it.
Acting is great. Jane Fonda is pretty awesome (am annoyed that people still bringing up Hanoi Jane in the comments here). Samantha Mathis is great on stage. Colin Hanks is cute, but kept sounding too much like his dad, which threw me out of things. Susan Kellermann rocks.
Live pianist playing the variations- AWESOME.
Interestingly the play uses the music in ways I've been working through with a new piece I've started but haven't shown to anyone yet. Must get to work on that.
carasol says she might have a midi file of my set of Variations on "C is for Cookie" on her computer... So it's maybe not entirely lost!