| re: A number of questions about '1776' the movie | |
| Posted by: ryhog 10:35 pm EDT 07/05/21 | |
| In reply to: re: A number of questions about '1776' the movie - peter3053 09:35 pm EDT 07/05/21 | |
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| You offer me competing temptations in the first part. On the one hand, when you cite dancing and singing examples, you are conflating creation (which is what we were talking about) and execution (the performance of what's created) and I could dismiss the comparison. On the other hand, I'll bite: the work of a choreographer may seem sloppy to a person who is wed to the rules of classical ballet, or traditional musical theatre, but it may be incredibly artistic and its execution must be precise. Think, for example, Bill T. Jones or Hoggett or Blankenbuehler. If this site had an archive, you could feast on those who railed against all three as if the world was coming to an end. Others of course hailed their arrival. Do you think Hamilton is "a passing memory ... [not] open to a more critical scrutiny beyond the momentary"? I respectfully suggest you are manufacturing a faux orthodoxy for your subjectivity (i.e., resonance) but it can't bear the weight you are trying to assign to it. The fine musicals (I am of course not defending the substantial amount of garbage that's produced) you love to hate are no less fine because you don't happen to have a taste for their kind of craft. They are not going to crash like an airplane because of slant rhymes any more than some Alitalia plane is going to crash because you think the flight attendance don't dress as conservatively as you would like. [Feel free to substitute some other ridiculous analogy :-)] |
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