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Jun. 7th, 2007 12:51 pmI'm thinking about it, and I can't come up with one, so I turn it over to the f-list.
Can any of you come up with a musical with a genuinely desirable message?
Examples of why I ask:
Godspell: Religion is about feeling good, and you can have all the salvation with none of the obligation.
Music Man: Criminality can be forgiven if the criminal ultimately has good intentions; people in rural towns are fundamentally uncultured and ignorant.
Les Miserables: The action at the barricade is fundamentally futile, and should not have occurred, yet the reactions to condemn any loss of life or attempt at revolution, rather than just stupid ones.
Secret Garden: Animals will talk to you if you sound like you're from Yorkshire; only the dead know what's going on; the garden seems to be a perverse metaphor for death, and the ghosts invite us to stay in the garden.
Rent: Tradition, Convention, and normal domestic institutions are a priori bad things; having a job is undesirable, but criminality isn't; there are about six reasons Rodger shouldn't get to sing to Mimi.
Lion King: You have a moral obligation based on birth; you need birthright to be a hero/leader.
South Pacific: Oppress the natives; bury your feelings (in this case, with shampoo).
I may have to ask Byrnsie if none of you can come up with one.
Can any of you come up with a musical with a genuinely desirable message?
Examples of why I ask:
Godspell: Religion is about feeling good, and you can have all the salvation with none of the obligation.
Music Man: Criminality can be forgiven if the criminal ultimately has good intentions; people in rural towns are fundamentally uncultured and ignorant.
Les Miserables: The action at the barricade is fundamentally futile, and should not have occurred, yet the reactions to condemn any loss of life or attempt at revolution, rather than just stupid ones.
Secret Garden: Animals will talk to you if you sound like you're from Yorkshire; only the dead know what's going on; the garden seems to be a perverse metaphor for death, and the ghosts invite us to stay in the garden.
Rent: Tradition, Convention, and normal domestic institutions are a priori bad things; having a job is undesirable, but criminality isn't; there are about six reasons Rodger shouldn't get to sing to Mimi.
Lion King: You have a moral obligation based on birth; you need birthright to be a hero/leader.
South Pacific: Oppress the natives; bury your feelings (in this case, with shampoo).
I may have to ask Byrnsie if none of you can come up with one.
