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EVERYONE moved way too much

Posted by:	Chazwaza 10:34 pm EST 12/06/13
In reply to:	Maria moved around .... - jdm 06:33 am EST 12/06/13

It's like a Directing 101 no-no… movement needs to not only be motivated organically but it needs to not be a distraction. Ashford forgets this all the time. In SOM especially, he is not choreographing/directing a heightened reality besides that they are singing, he is doing a scene with a song in it. Yes he choreographs even as a director in a scene without the song as if he is interpreting everything through dance… but not in an interesting experimental kind of way, just in the worst kind of "broadway" way. That's what I kept thinking while watching SOM, that this will only reinforce how silly most of the country thinks musicals are, always and by their nature, because of the way he stages and choreographs so much of it. It's like community theater but with much better performers.

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