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| Posted by: Ncassidine 10:58 am EDT 08/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review - Delvino 10:29 am EDT 08/08/22 | |
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| I think part of the problem is that Miranda is not a character who wants to sing. Tevye wants to sing. Glinda and Elphaba both want to sing. Even like, Louise in Gypsy, HAS to sing. Miranda doesn't want to sing. Andy probably doesn't want to either. Not without drastically changing the property. |
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| re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review | |
| Posted by: NeoAdamite 06:06 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review - Ncassidine 10:58 am EDT 08/08/22 | |
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| Miranda is not a character who wants to sing. Miranda is walking a tightrope 24/7, knowing that the entire world is clamoring to see her fall. Anyone with that much internal pressure has plenty to sing about. |
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| re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 06:29 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:26 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review - NeoAdamite 06:06 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
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| But that doesn’t mean they want to sing. Miranda’s great moment of pathos in the film is when Andy sees that her private life is a mess, and we see how much it hurts Miranda to be seen in this way. Her greatest fear is being vulnerable, of letting her mask down, of, well, singing. | |
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| re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review | |
| Last Edit: Delvino 06:32 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| Posted by: Delvino 06:24 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review - NeoAdamite 06:06 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
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| I agree. I sense a shortfall in imagination. Miranda has a famous movie-defining monologue on film, a form not known for speechifying, characters expected to show not tell. She runs staff meetings. She expresses herself verbally. We can debate that but it’s a done deal. This is a show needing transformational thinking, not stage duplication of a screenplay with songs inserted, as the smart Theatermania review suggests was the concept. After Pretty Woman, Tootsie, Doubtfire, we expect more. The track record of all three suggests it’s required. |
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| Bingo! | |
| Posted by: Johno60 03:38 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review - Ncassidine 10:58 am EDT 08/08/22 | |
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| Miranda doesn’t ‘sing’. | |
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| Posted by: PlazaBoy 03:53 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| In reply to: Bingo! - Johno60 03:38 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
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| I agree with that observation, but I am surprised that didn't attempt to give her a song that she would sing in private when her guard is down. There's that moment in the film where we see Miranda in her inner sanctum. She seems vulnerable and it's somewhat unsettling. It seems that would be the moment to attempt one good emotional release for Miranda. The lady's obviously got some issues. Isn't there a song in there somewhere? |
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| Last Edit: Unhookthestars 03:48 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| Posted by: Unhookthestars 03:46 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| In reply to: Bingo! - Johno60 03:38 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
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| Maybe she needs a “Liaisons”-type spoken-more-than-sung number, perhaps something similarly witty, nostalgic (“What ever happened to class?”), and matter-of-fact. |
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| re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review | |
| Last Edit: writerkev 11:06 am EDT 08/08/22 | |
| Posted by: writerkev 11:05 am EDT 08/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review - Ncassidine 10:58 am EDT 08/08/22 | |
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| This puts me in mind of the show I saw this weekend at Arena Stage, “American Prophet,” a bio-musical about Frederick Douglass. In the second act Abraham Lincoln is a character, and he leads big anthem-like, full-company numbers. If ever a character “doesn’t want to sing,” I think it’s Lincoln… |
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| re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:34 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review - writerkev 11:05 am EDT 08/08/22 | |
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| That queen loved to debate and give speeches, I think she very much wants to sing. | |
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| re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review | |
| Posted by: Ncassidine 12:01 pm EDT 08/08/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Devil Wears Prada - Chicago Tribune Review - writerkev 11:05 am EDT 08/08/22 | |
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| Oh my god | |
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