He started off in cartoons in college, but when that dried up he changed his major to poli-sci and went into politics. A mid life crisis made him go back into his real love, musical theatre, thanks to one of his idols, Alexander Hamilton, and his Mormon faith.
Since we’ve derailed the original sci-fi topic, I’ll add that I’m highly disappointed in this season of Fargo.
Damn, and I thought the zenith was Hamilton.
The Wiz
West Side Story by a mile.
Hahahahaha
Back to sci-if, season 3 of Discovery is very good.
I did read some criticism of the first two seasons for focusing on the season-long story arc, instead of being more of a string of single-episode stories á là TOS and TNG.
It looks like Discovery has taken that to heart. The long story is still there, but the first 4 episodes have each had an in-episode arc that has been closed, without the next episode necessarily following straight on.
Yep, it’s become very much like DS9 in that regard. And I’m glad that the supporting characters are starting to get more things to do instead of being potted plants.
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West Side Story is absolutely on the musical Mt Rushmore
The Mt Rushmore is West Side Story, Les Miserables, Hamilton, and Sound of Music
My Fair Lady
The Phantom of the Opera is going to kick you all in the dick.
I go back and forth on My Fair Lady vs Sound of Music.
Phantom is next tier down for so much recycling in Act 2
And if anyone says Rent or Cabaret I absolutely will kick them in the dick.
But what about Cats?
Spamalot?
I’ve seen only one musical live, and the was the nowhere-near-Mt-Rushmore “Starlight Express”.
However, South Park’s “Bigger, Longer and Uncut” was technically a musical, and I fucking love that movie.
From a musical composition perspective it’s hard to beat Bernstein and Sondheim.
I know it’s not the same as seeing the production but I’ve been listening to a lot of soundtracks lately and I haven’t enjoyed Hamilton like the rest of the world has. All of my favorites (not saying they’re better) were all made before 1970. Lloyd Webber is great but not my bag musically. Give me Bernstein, Rodgers, Loewe, and Gershwin.
I’ll just flat out say that ALW is overrated. Phantom is great, Evita and Superstar are fine, and then there’s a lot of crap
Cats isn’t so much bad as boring.
My wife and I have had season tickets to Broadway in Austin for a while, and one of the offerings a couple of years ago was Love Never Dies, or whatever the schlock sequel to Phantom is. We seriously considered leaving at intermission, and probably should have. We had faith that the second half couldn’t be as bad as the first half, but that was badly misplaced optimism.