Und now ve kvetch!

From the continuing annals of randominity:

Pictures from MSND are actually working sufficiently (aka, only crashing my computer every once in a while!) for me to convert and save them. Yaaay! Hopefully this means webpage is on its way.

Begin runs for KMK this week. How time flies.

Teched The Boys Next Door - good times. (The show isn't the Boys of Summer...too bad. That's a GREAT title.)

Looking like Arcadia for the Autumn. Wowsers....

*singing* Where have all the movies gone? They've been tent poled every one. When will they ever learn?

There is insufficent time to do things that need to be done. Or rather, I have sufficient time...just at times other folks don't! Oy! ;P

I mentioned at TBND the other day that I thought that, really, most musicals are only "OK," and that there are only a handful of "Great" musicals. When asked to name the top five, the first was "Les Mis" - but then I stumbled for others. See, I would say the movie version of "Sound of Music" and possibly "Chicago" (ditto) are...but then I faltered. "Phantom of the Opera" is only an "OK" musical, because unless you have amazing actors, it's really just a spectacle with AMAZING music. "Sunset Boulevard" is up there, but...lacks something. "Singing in the Rain" is a GREAT musical - but again I mean the movie version, not the recent stage adaptation. "Man of La Mancha" is borderline great - if you have bad leads, it falls. Even "La Boheme" isn't a GREAT opera, although, like "Phantom" it tends to overwhelm the senses and so trick the audience (aka me) into gushing. A GREAT musical/opera is one that survives almost all performances, that makes a good point and makes it well, that has fantastic music AND plot/book...in short, that ends up being a culmination of all the arts with apparent ease.

I was about to wonder at the fact that there are hundreds of great books, but only a handful of great musicals/operas, when I realized that the reason theatre is more tricky is because you may have one part of the whole created by a brilliant musician/playwrite/director/actor/TD/etc. - but that doesn't necessitate that everything about the musical/opera is brilliant. Look at "Lion King" - Hans Zimmer's background music is GLORIOUS. But it can't drown out the rest of the drivel that is "Lion King." Ditto for the AMAZING music and lyrics for Disney's "Hunchback" - as a movie, it failed (curiously, as a stage show in Disney, it's really, REALLY good). Conversely, only Dickens or Dostoyevsky or Homer or whomever need be brilliant to make their book brilliant.

Must go in search of graph paper.

Mood: *grumble*
Music: "Close Every Door to Me" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat as performed on the Andrew Lloyd Webber Gold Collection
Thought: Je veux aller a la cinema!