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| Posted by: standingO 07:31 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| In reply to: 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 - Chazwaza 04:23 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
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| It could be an artist trying to make sense of the world around them. Broadway theaters was surrounded by totally different neighbors in the 1960s-1980s than today. The dancing halls of Sweet Charity in the 1960s and then, the setting on which The Life is based. Or as Sam Harris said in his intro to the show's 1997 Tony performance, it was "before they made the streets squeaky clean for Mickey Mouse." Maybe Cy Coleman did or didn't have other reasons to revisit the topic, but I wouldn't dismiss this factor if we're retroactively dissecting his artistic motivations. In other Life news, Sam Harris is livestreaming Openly Gray from 54 Below as I type. And it's a nice watch. |
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| Posted by: Chazwaza 08:03 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
| In reply to: ALSO - standingO 07:31 pm EDT 03/17/22 | |
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| Absolutely. Sondheim also made sense of the world around him. I could easily say Sondheim loved writing shows about wealthy people. Especially if I only was familiar with Company Follies and A Little Night Music (forgetting of course that all 3 shows have non-wealthy characters too)... I mean, throw in there Sunday, and Merrily... both have wealthy privileged artists at the center (as well as non-wealthy people). But Sondheim, like Cy, wrote MANY show, Sondheim wrote 14 musicals (music & lyrics), about many many things and kinds of people. There are certainly repeated type and themes and things he writes well (after all, he was rich and privileged even from childhood... but let's not forget plenty of the world's great art came from people with massive wealth and/or privilege who had the time and resources to BE artists, it wasn't always seen as the detriment and death of art or the value of the art if that was the artist's actual life). But I could still say Sondheim loved musicals about wealthy people. |
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