The choreography in "Last Night on Earth" is easily my favorite. I love the lack of book too, though the added dialogue to better include Will and Tunny is an improvement.
And while the narrative arc of the musical can be quite grim, Mr. Mayer chose not to be too cruel to his characters. At least two of them could have easily died, but Mr. Mayer said he wanted to avoid that after having two main characters dead at the end of “Spring Awakening.”
I sincerely hope there's some stronger reasoning behind the non deaths in this show. As much as I adore this show, my biggest problem with it as a whole is that its ending is so happy and perfectly wrapped together (at least thats the way the Berkley production seemed to me) that it was off-putting. I'm not saying I wanted a Hamlet!Errybodydies show, but the show's ending felt very....7th Heaven to me, in a sense that it was almost too good to be true.
I agree with you on some level. The way that they all came together at the end was a little weird but it wasn't really a happy ending. I mean, Johnny and Will pretty much ended up where they started. And Tunny has the happiest ending but that's still pretty screwed up. What I loved so much about the show was the way it felt almost unfinished. Idk I'm rambling.
I would assume they don't kill off Johnny because he needs to sing "Whatsername" since no one else really would have a reason to.
And I honestly didn't see much sugarcoating going on. To me it just seemed like they were painting a pretty regular picture as to what happens with a lot of kids in the punk scene. They start off hating everything, or not caring about anything, but end up realizing being an idiot [no pun intended] isn't the point of life and decide to do something worthwhile. That's not to say they don't care about punk "ethics" anymore, it's just...they grow up. Hell, if you look at Green Day's music and listen to songs from Dookie compared to 21st Century Breakdown, you can see this exact same thing happening.
I don't necessarily think that's what they were going for, but it is something I've seen happen before, and that's what I got out of it.
I'm not familiar with the album, and I'm definitely not familiar with the musical, but if people felt characters should have died - then they definitely should have. DON'T BE STEPHENIE MEYER! Seriously, though, that really is a ridiculous reason to not have anybody die, because another "rock musical" did it. So what? Tons of musicals have deaths.
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I sincerely hope there's some stronger reasoning behind the non deaths in this show. As much as I adore this show, my biggest problem with it as a whole is that its ending is so happy and perfectly wrapped together (at least thats the way the Berkley production seemed to me) that it was off-putting. I'm not saying I wanted a Hamlet!Errybodydies show, but the show's ending felt very....7th Heaven to me, in a sense that it was almost too good to be true.
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And I honestly didn't see much sugarcoating going on. To me it just seemed like they were painting a pretty regular picture as to what happens with a lot of kids in the punk scene. They start off hating everything, or not caring about anything, but end up realizing being an idiot [no pun intended] isn't the point of life and decide to do something worthwhile. That's not to say they don't care about punk "ethics" anymore, it's just...they grow up. Hell, if you look at Green Day's music and listen to songs from Dookie compared to 21st Century Breakdown, you can see this exact same thing happening.
I don't necessarily think that's what they were going for, but it is something I've seen happen before, and that's what I got out of it.
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