:gaddafi-happy:
https://archive.is/Fc95v
after he was told he could not compose music about someone from another country.
I wonder why this is so vague, it's almost like specific details might provide important context about this
The context delivered: Nobody actually told him this. He just assumes "The Woke Mob" wouldn't let him make Evita today because he's not Argentinian.
Cultural appropriation is the practice of using or taking something from another culture without recognition or respect to that culture. Cultural appropriation looks like pop stars dressing up as Geisha girls, social media influencers donning Native American headdresses, and white people wearing cornrows, dreadlocks, or box braids. Cultural appropriation is, at its heart, about power It's about who has the power to steal from somebody else and not offer any consequences.
Exactly. It's possible to be respectful of another culture and to create something of value which celebrates that culture, but most don't care to actually do that and just steal aesthetics.
It's not about "not being allowed" to do things. It's about the level of respect and appreciation you show for something, and whether or not you put in the effort to do so. The bar isn't that high, and people are just contorting themselves into knots to not do the right thing.
If this were the YA author space, I could believe it was that general of a proscription, but it's musical theater and one of the most famous living playwrights, so I doubt it.
Honestly I feel like Cats, if done right and not the CGI mess we got in 2019, would be more loved today then back then.
Because 1. The internet has made kittys more popular, and 2. Furries.
Yeah most people forget that one part of The Phantom of the Opera where the Phantom turns to the audience and says "I hate women"
:angery: CHRISTINE WHY WON'T YOU LEAVE RAOUL FOR MEEEEEEEEEE
:angry-hex: CHRISTINE I AM AN INCEL. YOU HAVE COME HERE, FOR ONE PURPOSE AND ONE ALONE.
and then of course, in the sequel no one wanted:
CHRISTINE YOU DID SLEEP WITH ME I HAVE A CHILD????
It's set in fucking Coney Island, Raoul and Christine move to New York and the Phantom comes along, realizes that Christine's son is his, tried to take the son under his wing, Meg shows up and tries to kill Christine because she's in love with the Phantom. It's a hot mess, absolutely garbage and nobody ever wanted it, but it exists.
haha Phantom is actually up there as one of the better Broadway shows I've seen (I mean...relatively - its no Avenue Q or Beetlejuice) but yeah Love Never Dies (the sequel) is probably Weber's worst lol. Don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything good about it & every time a new tour of it starts somewhere the reviews are always negative for the most part.
lol, it's just like how chuds can't finish telling a joke because they get too angry, this one can't write a musical. skill issue
DOGS: it's just 4 hours of people running around on stage and acting like dirty dogs. Like a canine version of the EXTREMELY NSFW Aristocrats joke
"Ugliest bloke in the Andrew Lloyd Webber look-a-like contest" is still one of the most savage insults Yahtzee has come up with
He's just pissed he can't write Starlight Express 2 because Chinese highspeed rail would realistically win that one.
He wrote the music for a huge swath of famous broadway musicals. He's like the Hans Zimmer of musicals.
