The Review That Dare Not Speak Its Name
By Mitch Berg
Katie from Yucky Salad:
I know I shouldn’t nit pick the fine points of a pretty famous story; I certainly know and appreciate that musicals require a high level of suspension of disbelief, and I’m usually better than OK with that. Anyone who knows me knows I wish I lived in a world where people burst out singing for no other reason than breakfast was ready. The problem with Brigadoon, just like with Superbad, was that it was just, well, superbad.
I’ve never met anyone with the guts to actually say that, before…
September 26th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Angryclown isn’t a big fan of musical theater, but likes “Damn Yankees” mostly cause it curses the frikken Yankees. Angryclown but notes that Brigadoon has dudes wearing skirts singing and dancing around. Why not just go see “La Cage aux Folles” if that’s your thing?
September 26th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Alas, my solidarity with Angryclown (via a common affinity for Sigourney Weaver), is as transitory as the town of Brigadoon. I’ve always liked Brigadoon…and Cyd Charisse’s legs. I can imagine AC in the Ray Walston role in Damn Yankees, though.
September 26th, 2007 at 10:21 am
I can imagine ac in the Ray Walston role in “My Favorite Martian”. Complete with retractable antennae.
September 26th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
“Anyone who knows me knows I wish I lived in a world where people burst out singing for no other reason than breakfast was ready.”
Shades of Ruddigore –
MARGARET: But see, they come – Sir Despard and his evil crew! Hide, hide – they are all mad – quite mad!
ROSE. What makes you think that?
MARGARET: Hush! They sing choruses in public. That’s mad enough, I think!
September 26th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Angryclown isn’t a big fan of musical theater, but likes “Damn Yankees” mostly cause it curses the frikken Yankees.
Full agreement, AC. Damn Yankees is among my all-time favorites mostly for that reason.
In the late 90s, I joked with friends that the time had come for a Broadway revival, because the Yankees werre once again dominant, and the hapless Washington Senators of the 50s became the hapless Minnesota Twins of the 90s.
September 26th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Angryclown isn’t a big fan of musical theater, but likes “Damn Yankees” mostly cause it curses the frikken Yankees.
Why do I have this thought that AC’s reference to “Yankees” really means Americans, not the baseball team? It would explain a lot.
September 27th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Why do I have this thought that AC’s reference to “Yankees” really means Americans, not the baseball team?
While I am second to none at heaping bile on liberals, I do know that the Clown is a card-carrying Mets fan who detests the Yanx.
And it’d be fun to get him and my good friend, the “Bensonhurst Bomber“, together at a Cyclones game one of these days; improbably, they’re both fans (among other odd things in common…)