Well, of course. That's what makes it awesome. 
Cockatiel of Doom Send a noteboard - 01/02/2010 04:57:07 AM
Cockatiel of Doom Send a noteboard - 01/02/2010 04:57:07 AM
I can think of a few musicals that are serious: Phantom, Les Mis, even 1776 to a lesser degree. But it is true that musical theater is very often comic. Theater, though... theater is pretty serious business. 
I can think of two plays that I'd call sf/f. Waiting for Godot is one, and No Exit is the other. They're precisely what I'm looking for, too: they both use the fantastic to remove preconceptions of the world and thereby explore characters in depth. It's interesting that both of them do this in a very similar way.
I can think of two plays that I'd call sf/f. Waiting for Godot is one, and No Exit is the other. They're precisely what I'm looking for, too: they both use the fantastic to remove preconceptions of the world and thereby explore characters in depth. It's interesting that both of them do this in a very similar way.
1776? Really? I was snortling all the way through that. Mostly at the "I'm high" song, but still.
I can think of lots of more serious musicals, though, and Phantom would actually be close to the bottom of the list. Ragtime and Assassins are two that immediately come to mind. Then of course there are the ones that start out light and feel like they can't move into the second act without showing that they are very important by turning "dark". That's a trap that SO many musicals, and straight plays especially turn into. (Doubt, History Boys, I'm looking at you.) I think some theatre is afraid that it's not going to be good if it's light in tone all the way through and doesn't have some horrible twist.
Cabaret and Fiddler do this to some extent in the musical world. Rent tries and fails miserably, because it is horribly executed from the get go.
Sorry, I seem to have gone off on my theatrical rant. I am not sure how I got there. I will think of Little Shop and be happy.
Taking a break from being Ella
Obviously I have musicals on the brain.
- 31/01/2010 06:36:33 AM
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Musicals are tricky things to do
- 31/01/2010 07:57:44 AM
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If sf/f relies on effects, then it doesn't deserve respect.
- 31/01/2010 08:04:10 AM
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I'm not saying it can be done or relies on effects. I'm just saying it might be tricky
- 31/01/2010 06:40:44 PM
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There is a musical episode of buffy....
- 31/01/2010 09:50:22 AM
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- 31/01/2010 09:50:22 AM
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The board ends up being about books, but it's actually titled "Sci-Fi & Fantasy."
- 31/01/2010 07:23:45 PM
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- 31/01/2010 07:23:45 PM
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Yes, but the site is read and find out. Maybe you should go to listen and find out? *NM*
- 31/01/2010 07:28:19 PM
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Tell that to the games board. 
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- 31/01/2010 07:50:53 PM
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- 31/01/2010 07:50:53 PM
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Which is an interesting example.
- 02/02/2010 06:41:08 AM
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Very silly. Less silly, though, when you consider the lack of a Theater/Musicals board. *NM*
- 02/02/2010 07:00:00 AM
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Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide stories were originally radio plays
- 31/01/2010 06:16:42 PM
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Which in turn reminds me of the infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast with Orson Welles... *NM*
- 31/01/2010 06:36:32 PM
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Nonsense.
- 31/01/2010 07:22:25 PM
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I feel like I'm a broken record, telling you to re-read what I actually said
- 31/01/2010 08:40:17 PM
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Yes, well, it was a fairly weak defense when you started using it.
- 31/01/2010 09:23:49 PM
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I'd have to agree with you - it has become more of a niche.
- 31/01/2010 10:16:02 PM
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I think cinema has outstripped theater more than theater has declined.
- 31/01/2010 10:28:06 PM
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I don't know, I've seen a theater adaptation of The Hobbit, for instance...
- 31/01/2010 10:11:47 PM
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Not quite sure what I was thinking about cinema either. My defense was that it was 3 in the morning.
- 31/01/2010 10:26:03 PM
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I would definitely count Little Shop of Horrors among some sort of sf/f mold.
- 01/02/2010 12:56:40 AM
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Definitely. But again, it's campy and ludicrous.
- 01/02/2010 02:25:00 AM
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Well, of course. That's what makes it awesome.
- 01/02/2010 04:57:07 AM
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- 01/02/2010 04:57:07 AM
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Repo! The Genetic Opera, both the play and the film were great. = Rocky-Horror + Bladerunner *NM*
- 02/02/2010 12:41:31 AM
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