| Instead of character development, we get "Monster." |
| Last Edit: Delvino 10:00 pm EDT 05/25/18 |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:58 pm EDT 05/25/18 |
| In reply to: re: A couple of FROZEN questions ... and a few - I admit - snarks - mikem 11:05 am EDT 05/25/18 |
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| The creative team had a real opportunity to turn Elsa into a more complex female character, to take all of the projected metaphors about her "otherness" and redefine her, via additional music at least. It's why the prosaic screecher, "Monster" is such a colossal tactical mistake. The show needed to burrow deeper into this woman -- who is she? What (else) does she want? -- but chose to simply restate her case, to continue "Let it Go" in an odd way. A quieter song about a deferred dream, something -- anything -- else, might've expanded the character in act two. What's it like to literally be left in an empty frozen castle of your own design? To look at the self in so many frozen surfaces? She could ruminate about anything. And yet, she simply takes the roof of the St. James again. One of those moments when the pop sensibilities so many deplore truly smother a good story. |
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