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Post by Noah on Sept 27, 2006 9:42:58 GMT -5
I hate dance. I hate anything movement-based except Chaplin. I think Chaplin is the only performer who's ever moved me without words. The problem is that in most cases, audiences won't accept a musical number without movement. This is kind of funny, because they'll watch a dramatic scene where nobody moves for a long time. But at least until the theatre evolves beyond it, musical numbers call for choreography about half the time, which is too bad, because it's hard enough getting people to listen to the words.
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Post by Darius on Oct 6, 2006 13:30:15 GMT -5
I'm not nearly as opposed to movement-based work as you are. But I agree with you about choreography. Though, to play devil's advocate - as a person who is more interested in the text, you write songs with lyrics that are more important that the lyrics to most big dance numbers in musicals.
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Post by Noah on Oct 8, 2006 12:26:05 GMT -5
I was also thinking the other day about the importance of context, in terms of staging musical numbers. A lot of musicals are about show business, and it's always more convincing to see actors dance when the actors are supposed to be playing dancers. A Chorus Line would be pretty silly with no dancing. On the other hand, a lot of people would say that A Chorus Line is pretty silly anyway.
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Post by wowposter on Nov 16, 2008 1:59:23 GMT -5
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