| re: interesting perspective, oddone... |
| Posted by: oddone 03:29 pm EST 02/05/18 |
| In reply to: interesting perspective, oddone... - HadriansMall 01:11 am EST 02/05/18 |
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You're not the first person to report this effect. Many reviewers at the time talked about this. I think part of the reason is because Caroline herself is distancing. She intentionally wards off emotion, and doesn't care if people like her. This can easily lead to an audience "respecting, but not liking" her, at least at first. And thus the show by extension. It's certainly a case where the show (brilliantly, to my mind) echoes Caroline in that it doesn't care if people like it. There is no "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going" moment here, which I suspect many audiences (at the time, if not still today) kind of wanted. "Lot's Wife" is perhaps the closest, but even that is VERY different.
I've always felt that because the show, and the heroine(s), don't really care if you like them, it is that much more emotional once the walls break down and you finally do. It's such a rich piece emotionally, but I think it's rich BECAUSE that emotion is not really on the surface, as is so often the case in musical theatre. |
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