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| re: The Life...utterly shameful. | |
| Posted by: KingSpeed 02:54 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...utterly shameful. - ShowGoer 12:25 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
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| I have not seen it. I’ve listened to an interview with him and have read reviews so I know what changes were made. I think “taking out the comedy” is ridiculous but good for him for having a vision and carrying out. It doesn’t sound like he failed doing what he wanted to do. But let’s not act like THE LIFE was a great show in the first place. I saw it twice in 1997 and liked parts of it but my husband haaaaated it and he wasn’t alone. | |
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| re: The Life...utterly shameful. | |
| Posted by: Mapleleaf 12:36 pm EDT 03/21/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...utterly shameful. - KingSpeed 02:54 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
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| You seem to have plenty of opinions for someone who has not seen the show. | |
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| re: The Life...utterly shameful. | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 09:49 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 09:46 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...utterly shameful. - KingSpeed 02:54 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
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| As an old white guy, I try to stay out of what's accurate and what's less so in pieces like The Life. But I do know more than a few people of color, in and out of the industry, who are bone weary with so much attention paid to shows celebrating the white prism on "street culture," tired of seeing material that examines sex work, pimps, and abject criminality among African-American characters. Especially when performed for a predominately white audience. Which is still the case. So for those folks, Porter is issuing corrections to a milieu-specific story some would prefer to live on (only) via concerts and recordings. Has anyone introduced The Capeman into these many Life threads? Remember what happened when talented Latinx hands tried to fix the work of two accomplished white men? The show still didn't work. Nor did Flower Drum Song for that matter, at least for most (it was not successful, artistically or commercially). I mention those two musicals because they are precedents from a previous error of retro-fixing. If the practice were more generally successful, we'd perhaps be more willing to view The Life and Tap Dance Kid as outliers. |
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| re: The Life...utterly shameful. | |
| Posted by: Manager-561 10:40 pm EDT 03/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...utterly shameful. - Delvino 09:46 am EDT 03/20/22 | |
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| Well, actually… you’re erasing Derek Walcott as bookwriter of The Capeman. He was a person of color. | |
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