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| re: Nine has a legit plot compared to Chorus Line, Company and Follies | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 04:06 pm EST 02/19/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Nine has a legit plot compared to Chorus Line, Company and Follies - Singapore/Fling 02:37 pm EST 02/19/21 | |
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| A case is there for ACL and Follies... but I don't think it is for Company. Company doesn't have events that impact each other, it is a series of scenes that do not impact each other, outside of the growing emotional impact. Let me know if i'm not remembering it correctly, but there is a reason why it's known as being plot-less. I would also say Assassins has no plot, unless you make a case that the Assassins conspired to and then influence Oswald to kill JFK, rather than seeing that scene as the same as the other scenes in terms of dramatizing an aspect of that historical moment (and the assassins appearing to Oswald are just a musically dramatic way to personify what might have been going on in his head). I dunno... interesting, and maybe what happens in Assassins constitutes a plot... but I also think it's okay to not have a plot. |
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| re: Nine has a legit plot compared to Chorus Line, Company and Follies | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 04:25 pm EST 02/19/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Nine has a legit plot compared to Chorus Line, Company and Follies - Chazwaza 04:06 pm EST 02/19/21 | |
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| "Company" has a plot in the way that each of the encounters is driving Bobby to confront his emotional blocks and then overcome them. It's fairly subtle, but the structure of the show (which may or may not be understood as happening in his head through remembering these encounters) pushes him to be more personal and emotionally accountable as we get deeper into the show. I think the long April sequence in Act 2 is really where we see how his character has been developing all of this time, and that leads us into "Ladies Who Lunch" and "Being Alive". The addition of "Marry Me a Little" at the end of Act 1 has helped to clarify this as well, giving us the halfway point in his journey. So there's definitely plot there, but the show isn't working very hard to underline the plot. "Assassins" is more sui generis, in that it's a collage of short stories that interweave, but it is true that those short stories each carry their own plot. But yes, that's a show that I think we can point to and say it doesn't really have a plot. |
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