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What’s the point of them? The film starts, has a story, moves along then next thing people are jumping about, singing, dancing, doing all sorts. Then stop and back to the story, which is normally cobblers.
Gave up on La bloody La Land after they all started dancing on top of their cars at the start.
It’s either one or the other. Music or film. Paint Your Wagon wasted Clint and Lee Marvin. They could have made a Point Blank/Dirty Harry type thing and ended up talking to trees under wandrin stars. Flip a duck.
I got dragged along to a song along The Sound of Music once with the Mrs and my mate and his Mrs. We were the only blokes there.
No musical has ever been any good. And that’s a fact.
Of course it is. All a matter of audience and preference.
It's the ALL I'd quibble with. Really? So a group of Nazis at a fascist rally believing the Horst Vedell song is the greatest thing ever written? of course they've been brainwashed.
Already a music fan, 12-year-old Baker is taken to see the musical Hair by his sister and her boyfriend, only to be mortified when a naked cast member's penis brushes his ear. "If this was the counterculture, give me Matt Munro. Give me Dorothy Squires. But right now, somebody give me a flannel."
I agree with the general thrust but there are rare exceptions. Cabaret is certainly one of them and this song is chilling, when you know what is coming afterwards. Chicago is not bad.
But Mrs dragged me to see Blood Brothers. One song repeated time after time, with different words. She also persuaded me to see Phantom of the Opera in New York. Dreadful storyline made worse by screechy singing. And, finally, got persuaded to the film version of Les Miserables. Who let Russell Crowe sing? Good story line ruined by continual drift into musical pap. Why not read the book? You can even get English translations.
As you can tell, the Mrs quite likes musicals and I am a real hero for putting up with her to keep the peace.
Re Blood Bros - I've got a Scouse mate who must have been to see this on stage a dozen times, and cries like a baby at the end of each performance - 'Say it isn't so'..boo hoo, waaaahh!
The book of Les Mis is quite hard going but the recent serialised play with Dominic West was very good imho
Everything seems to be up for grabs in creating a musical out of a story, or even TV show. 'George and Mildred - the musical' anyone?
Completely forgot the only musicals I ever happily paid to see: The Book of Mormon The Producers Both fantastic. Neither in schools yet, unfortunately.
Really? So, if someone says Harry Potter is 'better ' than Tolstoy? The Spice Girls 'b better than Mozart? All a matter of taste?
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Cabaret Oklahoma Seven Brides For Seven Brothers Calamity Jane JC Superstar Grease all very good proper musicals IMO
personally dont like the modern concept of taking a normal film and converting it to a musical just for the sake of squeezing money out of punters who think that should be going to the theatre because its on trend but the young uns seem to like them and they do me no harm
Me and Musicals gel about as much Kit Lambert and a week on the Maharishi Yogi's Divine health farm but one exception was the superb 'Telstar' The Joe Meek Story, directed by Nick Moran in the mid 2000's
Me and the Late East Ham Dave Loved it.
"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
Used to hate them as well, but I've mellowed with age. Also think having a wife and daughter around means you absorb some of it by osmosis. Can't believe no one's mentioned Singing in the Rain. Surely the greatest musical ever? And the dancing is something else.
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