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.
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.
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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
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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
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do you also think film & tv are trash? same fukin people
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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.