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re: sorry chandelier crashing down over audience beats witch flying any day

Posted by:	Chromolume 06:07 pm EDT 10/30/15
In reply to:	sorry chandelier crashing down over audience beats witch flying any day - dramedy 04:30 pm EDT 10/30/15

It's a very stylized show, in all aspects. I do;t think it was ever intended to look "realistic." The story is fantasy, the look of the show is evocative and grandiose and purposely larger-than-life, and the score reflects these attributes as well. Chitty is fantasy also, but rooted in a more "real" and simplistic world. Plus, the audience expectation that the car would fly is a given, therefore I think they bowed to the idea that it would have to be a coup de theatre that people would accept in "realistic" terms. Spiderman, as we all know, had no grasp on reality in any way, but I get the impression that the flying wasn't really rooted in the style of the story, it was there to show off the (often dangerous) technology. It wasn't cartoon fantasy translated to the stage, it was simple hubris. I'm not a Phantom fan - but I do seem to think that you're more trying to dump on the piece in any way you can, which is just as blind as it is with the people who love the show unconditionally, lol.

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