| re: "The Oldest Profession" as an act 2 11 o'clock number... hmm | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 01:38 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 01:33 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: "The Oldest Profession" as an act 2 11 o'clock number... hmm - Singapore/Fling 01:21 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| "Ladies Who Lunch" is different because Bobby, the main character who's story is the story we are tracking, gets "Being Alive". Queenie has no such number. "I'm Here" is an example I can't even count... my point was giving the 11 o'clock number to the person who isn't the lead. "Ladies Who Lunch" also isn't the emotional core or conclusion of the show, so in that sense it's also different... but "I'm Here" is both the emotional conclusion AND sung by the lead character. I'm very confident you know how different that is as an example for specifically what I was asking about. "I'm Here" isn't sung by Shug, and "Rose's Turn isn't sung by Herbie", etc My question was more rhetorical, I did come away from your post knowing how you felt about it. ;) Also, for the record, being too old for the life was both a joke (because she's 26, not 62) and a comment on how exhausting and draining and hard on your body and mind the life is. It's also a bit disingenuous to say that the life is literally killing Sonja because you see her deteriorating/dying of what is clearly AIDS. AIDS is a disease that is transmitted sexually, so sex workers are at high risk. Gay men dying of AIDS weren't being "killed by the life", like Sonja they were being killed by a deadly new virus that is transmitted largely through sex (and needles, but I don't recall this musical painting Sonja as a drug user -- though in reality, from what I've read and heard from actual sex workers, the truth is that the vast majority are using drugs of some kind, and I bet that's especially true in 1979 on the streets of New York, but also I'm sure there were prostitutes who didn't use or were clean, and maybe Sonja is conceived that way. If I recalll The Life painted the drug use as done by the male characters more, but I really don't remember well enough to say). |
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