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  • oedipe: BTW, as we speak, there are about 10000 people in Moskow’s Red Square listening to Anna sing Vespri! 4:48 PM
  • havfruen: The director should then take his ideas to Broadway. 4:30 PM
  • luvtennis: Question Posed: What if a director had an awesome vision for a production of the Ring or Aida but it... 2:58 PM
  • MontyNostry: Big Verdi vs an unloved piece by Britten? 2:57 PM
  • luvtennis: True. It doesn’t now. But can you think of an argument in favor of Regie style interventionist... 2:53 PM
  • oedipe: I don’t think people have been sitting at home staring wistfully into the fire saying if only I had the... 2:51 PM
  • luvtennis: Wow! I have always thought of Rap’s Daughter as a masterpiece. I wrote a paper on it at college.... 2:47 PM
  • semira mide: Thanks for the link. I’ve not yet been able to listen to it. It’s just too bad there... 2:36 PM

There ought to be a new word for camp

glum_janetTyler Perry‘s… For Colored Girls does feel like a ghoulish joke, a dated horror show bordering on parody. It’s both operatic and tone deaf, with explosions of hysteria that include a drunken Macy Gray performing a back-alley abortion and the conversion of a poem spoken by [Ntozake] Shange‘s Lady in Purple into an actual opera by Perry’s regular composer Aaron Zigman (called La Donna In Viola). During the opera, the film cuts back and forth between a doomed couple silently watching the performance (the husband is on the down low, unbeknownst to the wife) and another character being savagely date-raped.” [Time]