| re: Guinevere - Likable | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 01:54 pm EDT 08/07/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Guinevere - Likable - Chromolume 02:49 pm EDT 08/06/20 | |
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| ***Guenevere is not perfect (who is? lol), certainly not at the start. The seemingly flip way she wishes for things in "Simple Joys Of Maidenhood" and "Take Me To The Fair" are not calculated evil, just that she has to grow to the realization that "sport" and reality are not the same. I would also tend to assume that when Lionel is mortally wounded in "The Joust," this is something she has never actually experienced before, and makes her realize just how horrible it is.*** Persuasively argued, but for even a very young, immature person to joke about wanting to have people go to war over her is terribly distasteful, in my opinion. And given the conversation between Guenevere and the knights in "Take Me to the Fair," it sounds to me like she has a very good idea of exactly what might happen in the jousts. In fact, one of the things she and the knights envision is exactly how Sir Lionel is killed: He gets run through by a spear. Again, I think both of those songs would probably work fine in a completely comic musical, the way that "To Keep My Love Alive" works in A CONNECTICUT YANKEE. On that note: While I think both songs are very problematic in the original version of CAMELOT, I would say they're even more problematic in the version with Lerner's revised script, which opens with Arthur on the eve of battle against the forces of Lancelot and then flashes back. To start the show in a very dark way with a war about to begin over Guenevere, and then flash back and have Guenevere sing in her first song about how nice it would be if she were to "cause a little war," is really difficult to accept IMHO. |
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