“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.”
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Wicked is in theaters this weekend: a book that became a Broadway show that is now a movie. Are you excited?!
For #tuesdaytunes today, I'm sharing my favorite stage show adapted into a movie. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a rock musical about an East German singer who tells the story of her betrayal by a collaborator who used their work to gain fame for himself. Created by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask.
pickLove this. Bumblers into heroes arc, beautiful prose, beautifully paced. Set in Sicily during the Peloponnesian War, but laced with Irish jargon and a stripped-down setting of quarries & markets for a sense of timelessness near the “wine-dark” sea. Brutality & art. Preservation of culture. Entertaining the enemy. Funny & sentimental. Crazy premise (stage Medea with actors now prisoners of war) becomes a beautiful mediation on art & freedom. 2024
so-soIn the build-up to QEII's coronation, a polio survivor is working as a stage magician's unseen assistant.
I thought this was a murder mystery with a gay detective and so was getting more and more confused waiting for a body (which never appeared) and for more exploration of gay life at the time (which only had a few mentions near the end). If I'd known what I was actually getting into I might have been in a better frame of mind to appreciate it.
Let me try this for an opening.
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pickExpand Your Horizons- Written the year you were born (1987)
I didn't realize how quick this one was but a combination of engaging story and the full cast audio was amazing.
