| Cy Coleman wrote many shows, about many kinds of people/professions -- but he is in great company if he's an artist fascinated by prostitutes | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 04:31 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 04:23 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| In reply to: re: This could well be the death of Encores. - AnObserver 12:12 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
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| Many many writers and filmmakers and artists of all kinds have been interested in Sex Work as a subject and the people who do it and pay for it, etc. Cy Coleman wrote music for the following major musicals: Wildcat Little Me Sweet Charity Seesaw I Love My Wife On the Twentieth Century Barnum City of Angels The Life The Will Rogers Follies (and two that aren't major that aren't worth mentioning) While sex and entertainment were certainly elements in many of his shows, I think it's pretty unfair to say he "likes shows with prostitutes so much" when he wrote *10* major musicals and only 2 of them have prostitutes, if we're calling the working gals in Sweet Charity prostitutes, which I do think is fair. And City of Angels too has a storyline that leads to a character becoming a prostitute, but I don't think many would refer to or even remember that show as a "prostitute show" (I've seen it and heard the score a dozen times and I didn't even remember it was in there)... but he also didn't write the book to that, and it changed quite a lot in development with the writers who ultimately wrote it. Also... he wrote the just the music for Sweet Charity... Neil Simon wrote the book and Dorothy Fields the lyrics, shaped by Fosse, based on an acclaimed movie by one of the world's most acclaimed writer/directors. Two of my favorite of his 10 scores are in shows about hookers... and I've definitely been aware of that, and that they have music by him... but I still don't think I'd call him someone who likes shows about hookers so much. |
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