LITP Bad Language, etc?
Just wondering - our family is planning to watch Thursday's broadcast on PBS, and I'm wondering what kind of language is involved - swearing, and particularly obscenities (you know what I mean...)? In general, besides the scene with the slip and t-shirt, how clean is the show? (i.e., how appropriate for family viewing)
I heard the score, and about died - I didn't know they wrote that way anymore - I thought that actual singing had gone out the door along with the true soprano role. Being a fan of everything from Puccini to Schwartz to Webber to Verdi to CM Schonberg to Rodgers to Sullivan to Wagner to Lowe to JR Brown to (etc.), I am pretty tolerant of pop style musicals. I don't have too much problem with the breathy mezzo soprano singing common today (think Miss Saigon), but hearing some real trained singing with beautiful, non-C,Am,F,G7 kind of songs was quite refreshing. Ever get tired of the inevitable pop Song-That-Goes-Like-This that always crops up in its own cheesy way in most modern musicals? (Think "Take Me As I Am (Jekyll and Hyde), The Last Night of the World (Miss Saigon), Just For This Moment (Wicked), etc.) Not that I don't like them, but they all sound the same, and could just as easily be taken out of context... Sorry, I'm done ranting.
FC
The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them