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Delvino 06:16 am EST 01/16/15 |
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re: What show is BEN BRANTLEY seeing??? It's certainly not the floperooza that I saw... - ryhog 02:14 am EST 01/16/15 |
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It's the paradox of the posting impetus, how to best voice a subjective impression while holding onto enough analysis that might fairly be dubbed objective. I do know that whenever I tie my objections to any given show or play to strictly craft issues -- is a story strategically told with character goals voiced/revealed, obstacles identified, catharsis clear and resolution satisfying, to hit the all too obvious spots on the paradigm -- I make a better case for my opinion.
Not that my opinion or anyone else's "matters," only that I have a chance to bring a point of view that might add specifics to a discussion of positives and negatives. If I say "interpolating 'A House is Not a Home' at the end of act one robs "Whoever You Are" of its emotional epiphanies in act two..." (PROMISES, PROMISES), I have a better chance of explaining why altering the song's allocated Chenoweth's character disrupts the balance and focus of the show than if I say, "Chenoweth sings too much and puts us to sleep." It takes more effort to parse the why in any discussion, and sometimes we fail to be clear. And sometimes we don't have the time or patience. Or investment. I get it. But attempting to raise the bar in our own posts whenever we can raises the bar on the board in general. When we shout at one another and throw around euphemisms for boredom thresholds, we are measuring subjective responses to results devoid of consideration given to artistic ambition.
I always say, it takes just as much work to write a bad play as to write a good one. Sometimes, that's worth remembering as we measure the effort.
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