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| The target audience in 2039??? | |
| Posted by: dbg 10:57 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein reportedly starring in film version of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG - carolinaguy 03:21 pm EDT 08/29/19 | |
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| While all the talk of the fascinating project of a Linklater movie version of Merrily being filmed over 20 years, I got to wondering who is going to see it when it finally comes out. Many of us who love the show were around when the actual time period of Merrily was going on. From having been to some of the TB parties, I would say we tend to be an older group in general, and many of us sadly will be reduced to ashes or be underground in 2039. Will the scenes of the Kennedy era, for example, mean much to those who will be in their 20's twenty years from now? I did not see the original Merrily but have been to two wonderful productions, the one at the Menier Chocolate Factory and the one so brilliantly directed by Michael Arden in Beverly Hills with Aaron Lazar and Wayne Brady as Franklin and Charley. Part of the joy of these for me was watching how gifted actors "youthened" over the course of the performance and really made me believe at the end they were enthusiastic teenagers full of dreams for a successful future. Will that same exuberance come through if the film is made starting with the younger years filmed first and then working up to the characters' lives in their forties and edited to show the reverse? I would love to be around to see it but expect not to be here then. Maybe some younger friends will have a party some night in 2040 and show the film and think of me and say, "Don loved Merrily so much. Let's dedicate this showing to him. He would have loved it." |
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| If it can only be appreciated by people who were alive at the time, then it’s not a very good show | |
| Last Edit: MockingbirdGirl 09:48 am EDT 08/31/19 | |
| Posted by: MockingbirdGirl 09:47 am EDT 08/31/19 | |
| In reply to: The target audience in 2039??? - dbg 10:57 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| I guess I have more faith in the material than you do, despite not having been around for the Kennedy administration. | |
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| re: The target audience in 2039??? | |
| Posted by: jconnors 02:34 pm EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: The target audience in 2039??? - dbg 10:57 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| Every gay man who called their lawyers yesterday to update their DNR orders to grant an exception if the movie is available for screening? | |
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| re: The target audience in 2039??? | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 11:37 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 11:27 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
| In reply to: The target audience in 2039??? - dbg 10:57 am EDT 08/30/19 | |
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| The Linklater project really does expand the Memento mori aspect of Sondheim's musical into the lives of its admirers in a personal way. | |
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