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| Last Edit: PlazaBoy 01:35 am EDT 04/05/23 | |
| Posted by: PlazaBoy 01:31 am EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - Revned 12:24 am EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| Speaking for the tour stop in Chicago, it would be easy for the causal theater goer to think they were going to see a traditional mounting of the show. Other than the vid on the Broadway in Chicago website, there was no attempt to educate audiences about the production. If one bought a season subscription, I don't imagine they were digging deeply to research each show. Unless you were keeping abreast of Broadway news, one really would have no idea what to expect. Additionally, the reviews that I read of the tour were not great. Specifically, I remember criticism of the vocal abilities of the cast. I knew what to expect and knew I was unlikely to enjoy it. I passed on seeing it. |
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| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: Musicals54 10:16 am EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - PlazaBoy 01:31 am EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| This production of Oklahoma! was the realization of the show that was always there. Some have contended that it was unnecessary to highlight what was always there. That is a reasonable point of view, but I don't share it. Too many revivals are merely remounted from the original staging. Oklahoma! is a great piece of art. It has layers of meaning. From the get-go it was always about the creation of a lawless and racist state. "I'm not your Aunt Eller." is about as clear as clear can be. Anyone who thinks that the R&H shows are about sweetness and light have clearly watched them through rose colored glasses and sound distorting ear phones. So the people who were shocked by this Oklahoma! are so befuddled that their opinions don't matter. Death, Murder, Suicide, Racism, Sexism, Colonialism, ethnic melting are the very basis of their shows. The only show which can be seen as sentimental is The Sound of Music and that is the only one in which Hammerstein played no part in the writing of the book. And it is the book that can cloy. Guess who those anti-Oklahoma! audience members voted for. |
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| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: finally 10:14 am EDT 04/06/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - Musicals54 10:16 am EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| Absurd to think that people who didn't like this production of the show are all Trump voters. I had several different people (many who don't know each other) express negative critiques of this tour as it played across the country, and I know their politics too. Here in DC, where I have a lot of friends who follow Broadway closely and see a lot of theater and knew exactly what to expect, I would say that the vast majority did not like this production. I can count on one hand the ones who genuinely liked it (and at least one of those is always a contrarian). | |
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| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 09:04 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - Musicals54 10:16 am EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| Guess who those anti-Oklahoma! audience members voted for. It's not as simple as that. People's responses to art, or entertainment, do not divide neatly across "left" and "right" lines, let alone across Democratic/Republican lines. Thank goodness, there are more dimensions to it than that! People who consider ourselves perfectly respectable, and have never once voted for any Republican candidate for any office in our lives, can still be appalled by the Fish Oklahoma! |
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| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:07 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - keikekaze 09:04 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| Theatre makes strange bedfellows. :) | |
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| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 11:44 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - AlanScott 10:07 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| Does it ever--bless it! ; ) | |
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| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 06:29 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - Musicals54 10:16 am EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| Maybe I'm dense but I don't get this: "'I'm not your Aunt Eller.' is about as clear as clear can be." "Guess who those anti-Oklahoma! audience members voted for." I promise you that there are people who did not like this Oklahoma! who did not nor ever could vote for Trump. |
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| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 06:52 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - AlanScott 06:29 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| How many trump supporters go to the theatre at all, let alone Golden Age musicals???? | |
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| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 07:00 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - Chromolume 06:52 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| I'm sure there are Trump supporters who go to theatre (it seems possible that a couple of posters here may have voted for Trump), and probably a higher percentage outside New York, but still I agree that most theatregoers in the U.S. lean Democratic. | |
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| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 09:03 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - AlanScott 07:00 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| I'm not even sure it's really a red/blue thing. I don't doubt plenty of republicans attend arts events. But trump clearly has no interest or feel or support for the arts (at least he's never shown any - was there ANY White House concert in those 4 long years?) so I tend to wonder if the people who really support him have any interest either. | |
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| Biden: Bringing back style to the White House | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 05:11 pm EDT 04/06/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - Chromolume 09:03 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| Joe Biden revived the ''In Performance at the White House'' series and returned to the tradition of attending the Kennedy Honors. But have Joe and Jill seen any theater on Broadway or in D.C. during his term? I remember Barack and Michelle taking in a Broadway show or two. (I also remember the ''Hamilton'' cast addressing Mike Pence in its N.Y. audience, but can't recall Trump going to any Broadway during his term.) |
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| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:12 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - Chromolume 09:03 pm EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| Actually, Trump does like theatre, or at least he used to. I suppose that one of the shows he apparently loved was Evita might be viewed as saying something. :) And he seems to love Phantom, or at least he told Hal Prince at a Broadway preview that he'd seen it twice in London and the night before on Broadway. So he saw it two nights in a row. At least that is Prince's story. |
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