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re: "Amercan Psycho" cancelled at Second Stage

Posted by:	Singapore/Fling 12:45 am EDT 09/14/14
In reply to:	re: "Amercan Psycho" cancelled at Second Stage - larry13 05:19 pm EDT 09/13/14

It's also the audience that the "Rocky" producers thought would come in droves. I also remember when we thought that "Rocky" would be a major contender for awards. Neither happened. And "Rocky" is a heartwarming story. Someone mentioned "Sweeney Todd", which has a moderate amount of gore, but there is also a high melodrama and multiple tender love stories running through it. "American Psycho" is a narcissistic murderer who brutally slaughters woman on his streak of nihilistic mayhem and madness. The main character is so reprehensible that it inspired his author to write a follow-up book in which he (Brett Easton Ellis) was haunted by the character he created. If they can sell it to Wall Street financiers as a loving self-portrait at $500 a seat, they might just pull off the greatest piece of pop-art and cultural commentary ever created and run for years. But I don't know if the people who love the source material are the people who go to musicals.

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