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| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 11:45 am EDT 08/30/18 | |
| In reply to: The Magritte Ascot Gavotte - Delvino 05:40 pm EDT 08/29/18 | |
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| "The Magritte Ascot Gavotte is just about all that I recall. The suspended bodies. It was stylized, and 'bold,' but what did it say? Not a damn thing." I remember reading at the time that it was supposed to demonstrate how the aristocracy float above common people. I guess I got that, but I still thought it was a nutso bit of staging that took the audience out of the story because it was so far out there. The "Ascot Gavotte" is already a very stylized number, and the director and/or choreographer brought the stylization to an even higher level. |
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| re: The Magritte Ascot Gavotte | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 02:43 pm EDT 08/30/18 | |
| In reply to: re: The Magritte Ascot Gavotte - Michael_Portantiere 11:45 am EDT 08/30/18 | |
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| it was supposed to demonstrate how the aristocracy float above common people. Isn't that clear enough already, lol? Isn't it, to a huge degree, what the show is already about? It was like the changes in the Mackintosh production that toured the US maybe 10 years ago, with the last part of "Show Me" nodding to "Sister Suffragette" as it were, with Eliza and Freddie suddenly in the Underground and Eliza becoming part of a "rights for women" rally. Interesting, I suppose, but not at all necessary to understand her emotional state - and in fact, really bringing it far beyond what the song is actually expressing. |
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| re: The Magritte Ascot Gavotte | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:49 pm EDT 08/30/18 | |
| In reply to: re: The Magritte Ascot Gavotte - Chromolume 02:43 pm EDT 08/30/18 | |
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| "Isn't that clear enough already, lol? Isn't it, to a huge degree, what the show is already about?" Yes exactly :-) And, in CABARET, isn't it already clear enough that the Kit Kat Club is supposed to be a pretty sleazy place without having the ensemble members display bruises and track marks on their arms, and without having a shadow-play simulation of fisting onstage, and without giving us an image of the cast inside a concentration camp at the end of the show, etc., etc? It's all about directors driving home points with sledgehammers in the guise of creativity. |
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| re: The Magritte Ascot Gavotte | |
| Posted by: whereismikeyfl 08:29 pm EDT 08/30/18 | |
| In reply to: re: The Magritte Ascot Gavotte - Michael_Portantiere 03:49 pm EDT 08/30/18 | |
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| The difference is that in a sleazy place, one might realistically encounter people with track marks and people having non-mainstream sex. No aristocracy literally floats in the air. |
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