| Swept Away: why won't they ever learn? | |
| Last Edit: Likeitlots 12:27 pm EST 11/11/24 | |
| Posted by: Likeitlots 12:13 pm EST 11/11/24 | |
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| It is the incredibly rare exception that a score not written for the theater works as a score for a musical. Effective musical theater scores simply require something beyond an idea or a mood whereas other genres of music do not. "Every Breath You Take" "Material Girl" "Stop in the Name of Love" (to pick random examples of great pop songs) start exactly where they finish, idea-wise. It's one thought expressed. That's not musical theater (or, at least, not good musical theater). Broadway's latest offender has too many people involved who know better. Yet here we are again with song after song that ends exactly where is starts-- no revelation, no plot advancement, no greater understanding of character, just the stating of an idea or mood. So we get 90 interminable minutes of a show with no real characters and a plot that can literally be explained fully in two sentences. The piece's actual conflict gets less than ten minutes of stage time. The music is fantastically performed and is interesting music. But it isn't telling a story. Ugh! |
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