| "Me and the Sky" | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 12:55 pm EDT 07/07/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Come From Away: The Mountain out of a molehill Musical - Singapore/Fling 11:47 am EDT 07/07/17 | |
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| I haven't seen the show. I also don't think it's narcissistic, but it does oddly stand out as a specific character piece in a show using not just an ensemble, but an ensemble representing the experiences of literally thousands. Given my interest in history and use of sources, I've done some reading on the tremendous amount of work Sankoff and Hein did, and regarding "Sky," one reason they had the pilot being so inwardly relfective was that she was isolated from the other plane people--stuck in her hotel, because she had to be where the authorities could contact her at a moment's notice. So she had far less interaction with the locals. All she could do was sit, worry, and yes, rage over how evil men had used the most important thing in her life for such a purpose. I don't know how well the pilot's isolation plays out on stage, but learning that makes me at least see what they were trying for. As for the poster who was criticizing the "darkness" lyrics, as "ooh,,scary"--this show is based on hundreds of hours of interviews. I would bet a large amount of money that Sankoff and Hein emphasized the darkness because that's exactly what thousand of "plane people" told them their first impression of Newfoundland was. Dark. Very, very dark. Unless you've been somewhere really underdeveloped (say, camping in Montana), you don't realize how completely bright our nights are. Those people were coming from Paris, Hamburg, London--major metropolitan areas--and they'd spent the last 12 to 28 hours on a plane, in continual light. Now, without having any real notion of what had happened, they're being taken off the planes, and taken to a very, very small city, stuck on an island with next to nothing near it. Darkness? I should say. Scary? Hell, yes. Laura |
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