| re: I’m biased toward musicals | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 02:01 pm EDT 08/21/22 | |
| In reply to: I’m biased toward musicals - dramedy 12:32 pm EDT 08/21/22 | |
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| Re Tyler Perry, yes. His gospel plays regularly sell our giant theaters and draw the kinds of crowds that are rivaled in White theater only by shows like Wicked, Lion King, and Hamilton. While Loop is a take down of Tyler Perry, Fat Ham is a queering of Tyler Perry, using his form to then explode it into classical, gay, and drag forms. If you dislike the ghost in Fat Ham, I hope that you also dislike the ghost in Hanlet or The Lion King, being as they are all the same ghost. Funnily enough, I thought the great strength is Strange Loop was the score, though the book does contain some truly brilliant moments. And I think the maturity we see in Strange Loop (did the thoughts not pull you out of reality?) is the maturity of the intellectual mind as it struggles to communicate with the conscious existence of the living person. We’re often “aware” of our issues before we can act on them (indeed, that’s the core dramatic struggle of Hamlet, whether straight or Fat), and Usher is aware of who he needs to be before he can actually become that. Both shows are unique and vitally important, but Fat Ham is the one that most excited me, and gives me hope for where queer theater can go in the future. I’m looking forward to seeing it again, ideally at Circle in the Square. Because of how it works in the Tyler Perry form, it has the bones of the kind of populist play that has a chance of running on Broadway while also speaking to the critical establishment that helps to sell tickets to the more refined theater crowd. |
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