Threaded Order Chronological Order
| re: Sondheim's Broadway career | |
| Posted by: dbdbdb 01:55 pm EDT 04/10/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Sondheim's Broadway career - Singapore/Fling 10:40 am EDT 04/10/21 | |
|
|
|
| This is exactly right. One of the show's biggest problems is that you're seeing the divorce before you know anything about the marriage, and you have no idea why you should care. Michael Porttantiere also alludes to the other big problem in his comments about Charley's hysterical overreaction to Frank's choices: The show seems to suggest that writing Broadway musicals is a beautiful, noble pure calling while making films is morally ruinous. Well, I guess that's true. Sometimes. Maybe. Under certain circumstances... | |
| reply to this message |
| re: Sondheim's Broadway career | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:12 pm EDT 04/10/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Sondheim's Broadway career - dbdbdb 01:55 pm EDT 04/10/21 | |
|
|
|
| "The show seems to suggest that writing Broadway musicals is a beautiful, noble pure calling while making films is morally ruinous. Well, I guess that's true. Sometimes. Maybe. Under certain circumstances..." Ha! Exactly. But also, seriously: How believable is it that Charley would become enraged at the information that Frank has worked a deal so that the musical that Frank and Charley wrote TOGETHER will be made into a Hollywood film -- so enraged that he then utterly humiliates his longtime friend and writing partner during an interview on live television? I mean, I know that musical is not his passion project, but........seriously?? I was sad when I very belatedly realized some years ago that, while "Franklin Shepard, Inc." is a brilliant song and a tour-de-force in and of itself, it actually does great damage to the show as a whole and to the character of Charley in particular, because it portrays him as emotionally reckless and childish in his big moment, and I don't THINK that's how the authors wanted us to view him. |
|
| reply to this message |
Time to render: 0.008217 seconds.