http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:36:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-131488 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-131488#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:36:26 +0000 Abe Sauer http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-131488 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-131488/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128623 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128623#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:07:31 +0000 MatthewGallaway http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128623 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128623/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128429 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128429#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:00:50 +0000 DoctorDisaster http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128429 so going to do that this year. @Shawarman: I also like some musicals that subvert the form - Blues Brothers is also worth a mention. (Or, hell, I'll just say it: Hedwig.) I think it really boils down to genre conventions. A whole lot of tropes that are accepted or even expected in musicals simply don't appeal to me. The tropes are so ingrained that shows that ignore them almost don't seem to be in the same genre, even if they include lots of musical numbers.]]> so going to do that this year. @Shawarman: I also like some musicals that subvert the form - Blues Brothers is also worth a mention. (Or, hell, I'll just say it: Hedwig.) I think it really boils down to genre conventions. A whole lot of tropes that are accepted or even expected in musicals simply don't appeal to me. The tropes are so ingrained that shows that ignore them almost don't seem to be in the same genre, even if they include lots of musical numbers.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128429/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128409 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128409#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:37:40 +0000 scroll_lock http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128409 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128409/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128392 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128392#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:10:06 +0000 MatthewGallaway http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128392 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128392/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128383 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128383#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:28:36 +0000 Kelli Marshall http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128383 "Many great musicals feature ornate costumes and choreographed dance numbers that have nothing to do with the Real World and are unapologetically Over The Top. -- Hello, Vincente Minnelli's THE PIRATE! (Love it, btw.) 2.) "Although musicals lack the mainstream appeal of fifty-to-eighty years ago, they are obviously still being produced (sometimes at great profit) and enjoyed by women, gays and heterosexual men." -- Yes, film musicals are still being produced but how often? (Roughly 1/year.) And are they worth watching? For instance, the latest big-budget feature-length film musical, Rob Marshall's NINE, was awful, just awful, yes? Perhaps a more interesting consideration here would be the phenomenon of GLEE. You're thoughts on it and its potential "gayness"?]]> "Many great musicals feature ornate costumes and choreographed dance numbers that have nothing to do with the Real World and are unapologetically Over The Top. -- Hello, Vincente Minnelli's THE PIRATE! (Love it, btw.) 2.) "Although musicals lack the mainstream appeal of fifty-to-eighty years ago, they are obviously still being produced (sometimes at great profit) and enjoyed by women, gays and heterosexual men." -- Yes, film musicals are still being produced but how often? (Roughly 1/year.) And are they worth watching? For instance, the latest big-budget feature-length film musical, Rob Marshall's NINE, was awful, just awful, yes? Perhaps a more interesting consideration here would be the phenomenon of GLEE. You're thoughts on it and its potential "gayness"?]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128383/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128372 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128372#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:00:22 +0000 Shawarman http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128372 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128372/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128345 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128345#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:21:19 +0000 ShanghaiLil http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128345 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128345/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128344 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128344#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:18:35 +0000 ShanghaiLil http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128344 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128344/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128304 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128304#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:45:00 +0000 lempha http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128304 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128304/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128272 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128272#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:45:34 +0000 DoctorDisaster http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128272 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128272/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128227 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128227#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:42:30 +0000 conklin http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128227 Cats. I wonder if part of the shift is related to New York, at least in the imagination of the people Upstate where I grew up, transforming from a metaphor for Hell (like in Highlander and thus sort of hetero-manly) to sort of gay (like in Friends, which for a certain strain of bro is gay, like musicals, regardless of how hetero-normative it is). I'm on allergy meds, by the way.]]> Cats. I wonder if part of the shift is related to New York, at least in the imagination of the people Upstate where I grew up, transforming from a metaphor for Hell (like in Highlander and thus sort of hetero-manly) to sort of gay (like in Friends, which for a certain strain of bro is gay, like musicals, regardless of how hetero-normative it is). I'm on allergy meds, by the way.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128227/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128222 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128222#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:34:07 +0000 phlox http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128222 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128222/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128193 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128193#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:37:15 +0000 MatthewGallaway http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128193 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128193/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128190 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128190#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:32:49 +0000 jaimealyse http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128190 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128190/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128187 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128187#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:27:22 +0000 CaptainFantastic http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128187 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128187/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128182 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128182#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:25:29 +0000 earlydinner http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128182 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128182/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128152 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128152#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:59:24 +0000 Bittersweet http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128152 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128152/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128146 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128146#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:52:50 +0000 mathnet http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128146 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128146/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128144 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128144#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:51:47 +0000 mathnet http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128144 http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/understudies-musicals-in-the-new-dark-age-of-digital-reproduction-no-homo#comment-128144/feed 0