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| re: And then there was SUGAR ... | |
| Last Edit: Jack1009 12:48 pm EST 12/28/22 | |
| Posted by: Jack1009 12:47 pm EST 12/28/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And then there was SUGAR ... - NewtonUK 07:47 am EST 12/28/22 | |
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| I have seen both the original Sugar and SLIT. I'll take Sugar any day. Great score and funnier. No attempt to 'say' something and make a social point. Just fun. | |
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| SLIT? | |
| Last Edit: Ann 01:01 pm EST 12/28/22 | |
| Posted by: Ann 12:58 pm EST 12/28/22 | |
| In reply to: re: And then there was SUGAR ... - Jack1009 12:47 pm EST 12/28/22 | |
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| Why are the changes in Some Like It Hot "social points"? Aren't they just things people couldn't talk about in the past, and now we (hopefully) can? I've seen both as well. |
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| SLIH | |
| Posted by: comedywest 01:55 pm EST 12/28/22 | |
| In reply to: SLIT? - Ann 12:58 pm EST 12/28/22 | |
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| I think the problem is not that people couldn't talk about in the past, and now we (hopefully) can, but that the show is set in 1933 and they wouldn't talk about them back then, and they didn't in the movie. In the past, when they adapted a work as a musical, the creators renamed it to show it was rethought (My Fair Lady, She Loves Me, Oklahoma, etc.). When you take the title of the movie, people expect the movie with music. (It's the old Jerome Robbins question: "What is this show about?" In this case it's about the movie.) The movie SLIH has I think one warm-and-fuzzy moment (when Josephine kisses Sugar), and even that is undercut with Josephine bolting. That said, I think they should have stuck to the farce and called it Some Like It Hot...or gone for the more social points/warm and fuzzy (whatever you want to call them) and named it something else, Or done something completely original. For what it is worth, I have no problem with woke musicals--The Prom was pretty woke, and it was the best musical of that season (ahead of Beetlejuice and way ahead of Tootsie). But it was an original musical set in the present, and it also didn't take its wokeness too seriously. Finally, drag is only funny when straight men are uncomfortable about it and put in situations where they have to be in drag. (La Cage's funniest moments are when Dindon is forced t dress up.) A lot of the movie's humor is lost here with Daphne acceptance of being non-binary. It is not bad in and of itself, but it is not the movie. |
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| re: SLIH | |
| Posted by: Ann 02:29 pm EST 12/28/22 | |
| In reply to: SLIH - comedywest 01:55 pm EST 12/28/22 | |
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| I definitely don't think the problem is that it's got the film title but it's not the film. And I also don't think unfortunately men in dresses is funny. But there are probably a lot of things contributing to this failure. |
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