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re: off the criteria of "every element of musical theater"

Posted by: ryhog 11:03 pm EDT 03/13/14
In reply to: off the criteria of "every element of musical theater" - Chazwaza 07:24 pm EDT 03/13/14

In order to answer that, first, there would have to be an agreement on what the last great musical was. So for instance for those of us who would consider Spring Awakening greater than Hairspray, clearly it is the last great musical that also integrated choreography into its whole.


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re: off the criteria of "every element of musical theater"

Posted by: Chazwaza 11:11 pm EDT 03/13/14
In reply to: re: off the criteria of "every element of musical theater" - ryhog 11:03 pm EDT 03/13/14

I would agree about Spring Awakening. Though it's certainly hard to compare two such different animals as Spring Awakening and Hairspray, both are great (I'd give the edge to SA personally), and SA was much more recent.

Part of me didn't even think of it as having been much of a dance show. I know it won a Tony for it, and I love what Bill T. Jones did with the movement, but I don't even know if I'd say there has been any show that was a great original musical that really had exceptional dancing all the way through it since Kiss of the Spider Woman. At least in the sense that JayBee must have meant it. (For the record I know there was plenty of dancing in Hairspray but I don't remember any of it).


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re: off the criteria of "every element of musical theater"

Posted by: ryhog 11:23 pm EDT 03/13/14
In reply to: re: off the criteria of "every element of musical theater" - Chazwaza 11:11 pm EDT 03/13/14

I don't think you have to consider SA "a dance show" to recognize that dance is absolutely integral to the show (and thus, as I understand it, Ashley's point). I also doubt that many people who saw SA have forgotten Jones's choreography, whether they liked it or not (and I am well aware there are those here how don't).


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