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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2019, 02:08:37 PM

Title: Death and the musical
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 06, 2019, 02:08:37 PM

Nice little article on the darker side of musicals

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/death-musical?utm_content=buffer4bc29&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebookbfi&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR1clz2jVUmr7pt4nJ0TapQojzHyrxcDMJOKok-U18lWujT3W90aHMqfjgY

Title: Re: Death and the musical
Post by: Harrowby Hall on November 10, 2019, 07:25:09 PM

No mention of Rodgers and Hammerstein in the article.

Hammerstein was a great humanitarian and he always included elements in hit plots about social problems. In Oklahoma! the disturbed and malevolent behaviour of Jud Fry is an important element in the plot - and his death occurs towards the end. A serious sub-text of Carousel is spousal abuse. And South Pacific is all about miscegenation - a subject Hammerstein had previously explored with Jerome Kern in Showboat.