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IF ,THEN...I figured it out...

Posted by: boyartist 09:44 am EST 01/21/15
In reply to: You sold me - Duke1979 07:53 am EST 01/21/15
Just because I do not like something, or do not GET IT, does not, of course mean that it isn't good, great, or fabulous.

When I saw "If,Then" in previews, I did not enjoy anything about it, except the scenic design.

Reading some positive posts and the review in NEW YORK magazine, I was puzzled by my lack of enthusiasm.

I am a bit older, and perhaps more jaded than the ME GENERATION, which this musical is certainly about.

A musical about young professionals who are so self centered, self absorbed, and self congratulatory that they think their rather ordinary lives are fascinating from every possible angle is not my idea of a show.

Well, perhaps to their own, but not to the rest of the World. I find myself seated in a theatre surrounded by a generation that when one of them farts, the rest take a breath and exclaim, "IT MUST BE SPRING!"

I am so grateful, ( although I had nothing to do with it), that I've lived long enough to have experienced musicals, plays, movies, and television shows of, in my opinion, quality and endurance. Not everything from the past was great or worthy, but compared to what is being produced today, well, I guess you had to have been there.


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