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re: "ON YOUR FEET" SHOWS ITS CALLUSES

Posted by:	BrianJ 12:18 am EDT 10/30/15
In reply to:	re: "ON YOUR FEET" SHOWS ITS CALLUSES - Chromolume 09:00 pm EDT 10/29/15

"As to the jukebox shows that use the subject's biography as the "story" - I don't know why they have yet to figure out that those stories are mostly very uninteresting. (I like to call these shows the "Behind The Music" musicals - except that the biographies are much better suited to a short TV documentary than to the elevated, longer story arc a musical demands.)" Maybe it has to do with the way the stories are told? Like, I wouldn't say that either the Four Seasons or Carole King have exceptionally more compelling and fascinating life stories than other pop/rock stars... yet the writers,directors,actors,etc. who put together those shows found a way to tell those stories that connected with, and excited, audiences in a way that most other "Behind the Music" musicals haven't.

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