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re: Daily Beast: Is so full of errors-musicals from films

Posted by: ryhog 10:06 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is so full of errors-musicals from films - NewtonUK 09:48 am EDT 03/18/14

this is a quintessential example of missing the forest for the trees.


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re: Oh pleaaaaaase.

Posted by: NewtonUK 11:08 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Daily Beast: Is so full of errors-musicals from films - ryhog 10:06 am EDT 03/18/14

Mr or Ms Ryhog, do you ever have a happy day? Ever?

I was merely pointing out, thesis aside, that the Daily Beast article is full of factual errors. And as I later post, there have been many movie to musicals - successful ones, before Hairspray.

Although it is a trend.

Its hard to take from my post that the errors were mt ONLY problem with the Daily Beast piece.

I'm sorry that, yet again, I don't live up to your inexplicable expectations.

My life is shattered now and forever


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re: Oh pleaaaaaase.

Posted by: ryhog 11:20 am EDT 03/18/14
In reply to: re: Oh pleaaaaaase. - NewtonUK 11:08 am EDT 03/18/14

I am having a happy day, thank you. Only warmer weather would make me happier. And I don't think there is anything life shattering in anything we discuss in this or most other threads. But I do think there are times that we learn something by standing back from the minutiae and assessing the state of an art form that we all obvious care about in broad terms. For someone (like the author of the article) who obviously is not inclined to bore down into the details, there is a notion-and not one that's especially pleasant-that musical theatre writing has become stupid. That ought to give you more pause than the miscellaneous errors you catalog, IMO. But I understand there were also folks rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.


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