| 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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