| re: In context of the show | |
| Posted by: mikem 02:06 pm EST 01/23/25 | |
| In reply to: re: In context of the show - kidmanboy 12:30 pm EST 01/23/25 | |
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| I agree. People are laughing because the audience has been pre-conditioned throughout the number up until then to think of it as comedic, and that a laugh line is coming. I agree with dramedy that most of the laughing comes because audience members are laughing without processing yet what the lyrics actually say. There's a clip on Youtube where someone, I think a comedian, is doing a call-and-response with the audience - "Alanis!" "Morissette!," "Baton" "Rouge!," etc. Then he says "Heil," and the automatic response from a significant part of the audience is "Hitler!," followed by a lot of muttering as people process what just happened. I think part of the point of the number is that the audience gets lulled into a certain response by The Powers That Be (the cast and creative team of the show), and the audience doesn't realize this is happening until it's too late. So I don't think Lambert should be chastising the audience. My big problem is that Lambert saying, "This isn't a comedy, pay attention" is coming from Adam Lambert, the actor, not The Emcee, the character. That is not something The Emcee would say. I'm kind of surprised that the director is okay with him doing that regularly. I understand why Lambert is frustrated, though, because there probably are some audience members who are genuinely laughing because they are anti-semitic, and it's hard to be around those people and feeling like you're entertaining them. And I'm not sure the staging of the number (or the whole show) is ideal. But I think he's breaking out of character to say what he's saying, despite saying it with an accent, and I kind of hope he will stop. |
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