Line Out - Comments on Why I Dislike Most Musical Comedy. http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/02/why_i_dislike_most_musical_comedy I just spent five minutes on hold, on the phone, with a certain theater in a certain city trying to get tickets for my beloved to see a big old fashioned Broadway Show. (Please, when you say those last two... Copyright 2008 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:51:39 -0800 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:32:44 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Kermit the Frog like Sleater-Kinney said, you're not the only one:

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]]> Kermit the Frog http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/02/why_i_dislike_most_musical_comedy#c951301 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/02/why_i_dislike_most_musical_comedy#c951301 Shit Talk Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:22:31 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways i like the MUSIC in many musicals but the stories so often suck...with the case of Wicked, it's the opposite; good story with horrid music.

Revenge Tip for Terry: start growing a moustouche the week of the show to torment Dan...

]]> michael strangeways http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/02/why_i_dislike_most_musical_comedy#c952465 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/02/why_i_dislike_most_musical_comedy#c952465 Shit Talk Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:47:27 -0800 Comment by KEN Nobody likes the sing-talking they do to get to the song. In opera it's called recitative, and, again, nobody likes it. I think it's just there so the whole thing can be set to music.

Also, yeah, the stories blow in opera, too, where they often cohere as much well as the last two-thirds of a porno. Nobody cares about the story (unless you're Wagner or a Wagner-ite).

]]> KEN http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/02/why_i_dislike_most_musical_comedy#c953338 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/02/why_i_dislike_most_musical_comedy#c953338 Shit Talk Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:32:44 -0800