| re: SPOILER re: HERE LIES LOVE PS - musicians on the 2016 album | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 10:18 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:15 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
| In reply to: SPOILER re: HERE LIES LOVE PS - musicians on the 2016 album - sondheimobsessed7090 01:04 pm EDT 05/27/23 | |
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| The reason they need to be tracks is because there's a total stripping down of the karaoke club at the end as a symbol of the protest that ended the regime. And at that moment three cast members step in and ask as a small acoustic band, and play live instruments and sing a song in which the lyrics contain verbatim accounts of that protest; So having live instruments for the show up to that moment would entirely take away the integrity of that theatrical conceit - and limit the metaphorical symbolism of that moment - the tracks rather than real instruments demonstrating the overproduced, fake, corrupt, uncaring energy of the Marcos regime in contrast with what feels like a small live indie band, to represent the on the ground, regular people, protesters who just want to live in a free country. Thank you. That's all very very literal. But we're talking about theatre, not reality. Suspension of disbelief and all that. Viscerally speaking, an unseen orchestra would still provide the same exact effect. The actors are playing characters, they are wearing costumes, they are lit by theatre lights on a designed theatrical set, etc - but we aren't supposed to be thinking about that as we watch. In the same exact way, a live orchestra could easily provide the music that the karaoke machine would reproduce in the story. And when a few of the actors later "step in and act as a small acoustic band," they would still be doing something we hadn't yet seen in the show - onstage music performed by the actors. And, because most of us are used to, and expect, live musicians, we wouldn't question the conceit. I doubt anyone would walk out of the production with a live orchestra complaining that it shouldn't have had a live orchestra. I guarantee you. It's just like seeing the wires when Peter Pan flies. It's part of a theatrical conceit. In your literal world, Peter would have to actually levitate on his own. |
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