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| Posted by: RonAnnArbor 03:00 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Bandstand ending question - lowwriter 01:35 am EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| I don't think that ending is un-natural at all...if you stayed post the credits and saw them talk about wanting to a 40's twist on the American Idol/Voice contest you know this is the logical conclusion Almost every "star" that has come out of American idol and the Voice and other similar shows makes it to the final three and then DOES NOT WIN...that leaves them free to pursue their own managers and they are not stuck with a contract from Fox, or NBC, or anyone else... This is the "logical" ending to Bandstand, when you look at the way these things actually play out in real life...and it felt like a very natural ending. Did it feel a bit tacked on, yes - live in the theatre AND in the movie theatre screening - but the show was already 2:30 bu that point and it has to end somewhere. It works for me, just my 2 cents. |
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| re: Bandstand ending question | |
| Posted by: Ann 03:17 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Bandstand ending question - RonAnnArbor 03:00 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| ...40's twist on the American Idol/Voice contest That's quite a time-travel twist to me (and anachronistic, and not logical for the 1940s, which I think is what bothered some of us, and didn't feel natural). I'm glad it works for you and others, though. But I still don't think it helped the show in general, which I felt was quite authentic in much if not most of the rest of the story. |
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| re: Bandstand ending question | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 07:59 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:57 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Bandstand ending question - Ann 03:17 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| But - radio contests themselves are certainly not anachronistic to the 40's, even if there was nothing quite like the one in the musical. (But do we know there weren't?) I didn't take the comment about American Idol/The Voice to be quite so literal - I heard it suggesting that such contests just inspired the idea for the musical's story - not that there was supposed to be a literal parallel. Musicals have used media-fueled contests before, historically accurate or not. I think if TracyTurnblad can dance on the Corny Collins show and Kim McAfee can kiss Birdie on the Ed Sullivan Show, then Donny Novitsky can certainly cobble a band together and enter a radio contest. ;-) And don't forget that President John P. Wintergreen's first lady was supposed to be the winner of a country-wide beauty contest. ;-) |
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| re: Bandstand ending question | |
| Posted by: Ann 09:15 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Bandstand ending question - Chromolume 07:57 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| A radio contest isn't a far-fetched idea. I didn't hear exactly what they said after the screening. I thought the poster was saying the ending was logical because of the American Idol/The Voice basis, and I couldn't see that being authentic. The anachronistic parts were that they would sing a song like one, and that they would become famous for a song like that at that time. | |
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| re: Bandstand ending question | |
| Posted by: Delvino 10:06 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Bandstand ending question - Ann 09:15 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| Agree; well said. | |
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| re: Bandstand ending question | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 09:55 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Bandstand ending question - Ann 09:15 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| That's fair - you're right that the song (i.e. the lyrics) they chose to sing would not have been true to form at that time - perhaps the writers ultimately boxed themselves into a corner by trying to tell 2 stories at once - the fictional one, and the real plight of vets living with PTSD and other war-related disorders - much as I applaud them for trying. Also, I did wonder if the idea of changing the lyrics on-air and not getting called on it was strange - except for the fact that they sang so little of the song at the audition, that the producer may not have realized. In terms of AI and The Voice, what I thought I heard was that the current popularity of those kind of contest shows was a plot inspiration in general, not the ending of the musical specifically. |
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| re: Bandstand ending question | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 09:47 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Bandstand ending question - Ann 09:15 pm EDT 06/26/18 | |
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| My thought was that as soon as Julia got to the lyrics about Davey putting away a fifth of vodka every night to block out what he'd seen, the radio producer would have pulled the plug--oops, lost our signal, folks. Laura |
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