Yes, they really made a rock musical about Andrew Jackson
I mean if it’s called Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson I don’t think it’s meant to portray him in a positive light. This is like an edgy teens attempt to parody Hamilton, but this was made first.
this thread: chapos who can't handle that art is sometimes made on a stage so they try to denounce an entire activity as liberal like a AM radio host ranting about video games
If this wasn't enough, someone also made an Abu Ghraib musical...
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If I recall, it's pretty critical of Jackson, it kind of brings the audience along with him and then shows he's a monster and the audience, like the USA, are culpable for his actions. On the other hand it really doubles down on "populism is bad mmmkay".
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Hamilton program paper-cutting your finger webs . . . forever.
Many people have been saying this for a long time - in my case, 25 years
theatre isn't so much the actors as it is the consumers, i think. only snobby rich libs care about that shit, so theatre productions cater to snobby rich libs. also, , because it's 'art' it gets to be political without being politics, so it is consumed as a product instead of an ideology. idk man, it made sense in my head.
lmao that explains why so many theatre kids I know grew up in wealthy suburbs
Musical theatre is the most Petit Bourgeois music alive. It literally comes out of the decay of Golden Age Operetta (itself a bourgeois version of the aristocratic opera-comique) and its merger with shitty music hall vaudeville in the early 1900s.
I still like it anyway, but it is a decayed facsimile of an artform trying to pitch itself as an independent one
It's not supposed to be subtle or naturalistic, since theatre is designed to be easily experienced by the half deaf guy who forgot his glasses at the back of a 3000 seat theatre, before microphones were invented. So big motions, loud singing, broad emotional strokes.
