| re: Defending Evan Hansen (from today's Broadway Maven Weekly Blast) |
| Posted by: ryhog 08:29 pm EST 01/28/23 |
| In reply to: re: Defending Evan Hansen (from today's Broadway Maven Weekly Blast) - Singapore/Fling 03:26 pm EST 01/28/23 |
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I don't want to travel too far down this path. You have some jumble in what you wrote but I sorted it out and understand what you are (trying to) say. :-)
I did not refer to Greek tragedies and neither DEH nor WSS (or R&J) are Greek tragedies. The questions are whether a play can end in moral ambiguity and whether a play must convey moral purity as if it were a bible story. In my view, a play need not resolve itself into a neat package in which the audience is not called upon to wrestle with the meaning or consequences of what they have just seen.
And yes I acknowledge that sometimes in musical theatre songs are not especially in the service of the play.
Finally, a lot of modern tragedies have no hero with a tragic flaw because more often than not they are about a tragic result and perhaps a tragic misunderstanding. (There's a lot more, of course, but I don't think we need to address the remainder of Tragedies 101. |
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