| re: Job and The Connector, my disagreements/agreements with the reviews | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 10:09 am EST 03/04/24 | |
| In reply to: Job and The Connector, my disagreements/agreements with the reviews - fm_15 05:40 pm EST 03/03/24 | |
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| I didnt have a lot of problems with the music = all Jason Robert Brown shows have similar problems. The musical is loosely based on a situation with Stephen Glass at The New Republic. My problem with THE CONNECTOR is that our lead (a doppelganger for Evan Hansen) is so transparently making stuff up that it was hard to believe that Scott Bakula's editor didn't get it. Massaiging facts is one thing - making up stories out of whole cloth quite another. So we know how that part of the story will resolve itself on about page 3. What else is there to wait for? Nothing except for us to wait and watch until the whistleblower blows the whistle. There is a more conventional way to tell this story - one where we are led to believe in the journalist, and then feel complicit when he realize the web of lies fabricated by him. It reminded me of the flop Boublil Schonberg musical MARTIN GUERRE. Rather than a musical based on the extraordinary Martin Guerre story (which was a great film with Depardieu), they made a musical about a religious war. Why would we care about the Huguenots? On page 3 we learn that this Martin Guerre is not the real Martin Guerre. I believe in the musical that his wife is on the deception very early. So the sow is over on page 3, as THE CONNECTOR is. | |
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