Re:The Fat Lady Is Singing
by egypturnash on Sunday September 23, 2018 @10:22PM
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These examples are all really... white dad culture. I can’t imagine an expansion of the Rhapsody or Bat into a movie-length entertainment that wouldn’t feel incredibly awkward.
On the other hand I could imagine cutting down Janelle Monae’s “Archandroid” cycle to a couple of hours of gloriously and uniquely American sci-fi flavored sung narrative. It’d need some reworking to come to a satisfying conclusion but there’s already several hours of songs and a lot of story to pare it down from.
On the gripping hand, I wonder how a Classic Opera would fare if you translated the lyrics and restaged it with a Touring Broadway Musical budget? It sounds like half of the problems of the opera companies discussed in this article come from having a stage that makes all but the most grandiose productions feel lost, and ticket prices that rule out all but a tiny percentage of humanity. That’s just not sustainable.
On the other hand I could imagine cutting down Janelle Monae’s “Archandroid” cycle to a couple of hours of gloriously and uniquely American sci-fi flavored sung narrative. It’d need some reworking to come to a satisfying conclusion but there’s already several hours of songs and a lot of story to pare it down from.
On the gripping hand, I wonder how a Classic Opera would fare if you translated the lyrics and restaged it with a Touring Broadway Musical budget? It sounds like half of the problems of the opera companies discussed in this article come from having a stage that makes all but the most grandiose productions feel lost, and ticket prices that rule out all but a tiny percentage of humanity. That’s just not sustainable.