| re: Guinevere - Likable | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 05:25 pm EDT 08/08/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Guinevere - Likable - Chromolume 02:13 pm EDT 08/08/20 | |
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| ***Just my opinion, but I think that ultimately you're seeing the song so incredibly literally, and I'm not sure it was meant to be taken that way. This is still a "musical comedy," (meant in the "most glorious words" kind of way) even with darker elements, and I think if this were meant to be a much more serious song, we'd hear that tone in the music (which is very playful) let alone the lyrics.*** I completely understand your point, and of course I agree that the lyrics of the songs were not meant to be taken seriously. But on a related note, I've always felt that the lighter and darker elements of CAMELOT are very poorly blended, as compared to many other musicals that have both. I think that's a large part of my problem with "Take Me to the Fair." Very shortly after Guenevere and the knights joke about severely injuring or killing Lancelot, one of the knights himself is killed -- but then, the show doesn't even stay consistently dark after that, it occasionally goes back to light humor and whimsy, as in the Morgan le Fey scene (although that's almost always cut nowadays). ***Even in Sweeney Todd, isn't the JOY and FUN of "A Little Priest" that neither of them are really thinking of the consequences of what they're proposing? Food for thought, lol?*** I never quite thought of it that way, and I don't agree that they're "not thinking of the consequences of what they're proposing" -- especially since they ACTUALLY START DOING IT very soon thereafter. I think the joy and fun of that song is that somehow, brilliantly, Sondheim (and the performers) are making us laugh fully and unreservedly along with a song about how the two characters are going to take dead bodies of people and grind them up into meat pies. But also, I think an audience's feelings about Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett are meant to be very different from their feelings about Guenevere. |
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