Evita, but in a good way... what I love about it is that it continues the whole "Eva Peron as myth and icon" thing, but that the narrator of the show is disdainful toward her. You don't often get a narrator who isn't on the protagonist's side.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."'
~Lewis Carroll
as mentioned.. The FIX Bush is Bad (for the L.A. folks, and now they are doing a 2nd version, "The Alaskan Beauty Queen Edition")
Wicked it's all about the 3 different types of people/animals and racism!
I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
"The Frogs" "Show Boat" "Hairspray" Probably "The Civil War" but I've never seen it... I can't help but think of "Avenue Q" even if that's not what you mean...
Pins and Needles Knickerbocker Holiday Finian's Rainbow Call Me Madam Oh, What a Lovely War 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
In other words, Broadway used to have musicals that were about politics or hot political issues quite frequently. Only lately, not so much. Wonder why?
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Paul W., some friends and I did a project relating to Broadway and political or non-political environments. We're kind of retuning to that political Depression escapism now, and mixing it wtih a little existentialism from the 70s. Sometimes, there'll be politics thrown in there but the purely joyful musical comedy is certainly in its revival
Glad to know that people are looking at this sort of thing seriously!
Just a thought--have producers been afraid of politics lately (especially the pro-liberal kind), and if so, is it because the high ticket prices tend to attract wealthier (i.e. more conservative) ticket buyers? Certainly a lot of shows have clearly liberal/bohemian views ("Rent," "Hairspray," even "Mamma Mia!), because this is NYC after all, not Salt Lake City. But you can hardly say that about "Beauty and the Beast" and "Cats." I don't think that "The Cradle Will Rock" would fly at $125 a pop.