@@katie3603 I'm not saying she's never heard OF it, I'm saying she hasn't heard the album itself, she said she was waiting to see it live but then Covid happened
I grew up hating musicals. I thought they were too silly and it's stupid that people randomly start singing. I now really enjoy musicals. I think what changed is that I started reading comic books, an equally silly medium. If I can find meaningful stories in a medium in which a completely acceptable response to seeing your parents murdered is to dress like a bat and punch criminals and one of my favorite characters is an illegal immigrant who is taught American values and represents our greatest potential who can also fly and shoot lasers from his eyes, I can also accept a medium in which characters burst into song and dance around the stage.
... Wow... Like, I hope the boys around me can think like that... I mean, most of the (straight) boys around me hate it or think of it as silly and boring but they rave about comics and Anime like there's no tomorrow...
Most of them are awful. They're operas for people too thick to understand opera. Not that I'm much into opera or musicals... As for comic books.... ffs grow up. Too many (wo)manchildren wandering around.
When I spotted the first couple Axiom's Ends, I was hoping it would be a gag where each time the camera cut back to her, there'd be more copies appearing behind her throughout, a la Seth Meyers' The Thorn Birds.
The “Disney Musical Formula” took from actual Broadway, Ashman was a theater guy who adopted the musical theater formula of Rogers&Hammerstein into animation.
@@hogfather22 I've been meaning to check out his work. I keep hearing about the Discworld series but haven't gotten to check it out yet. Need to do that ASAP
We need a longer episode of this on Lindsay's channel examining the differences between good musical adaptations of books (like the ones she listed) and bad ones (Carrie the Musical). Also, there was a Lestat the Musical and where was I?
Rami Ungar the Writer let’s add the poorly made Riverdale episodes.Especially when they decided to use the worse take of untrained actors. Add nothing to the plot. The entire staff hates shooting them.
Lindsay does a podcast called "Musicalsplaining" where she "splains" musicals to her friend Kaveh who hates musicals. She did a full episode on another bad musical "Love Never Dies" where she compares it to "Battlefield Earth" where it is a bad musical but it is entertaining in how ludicrous it is.
You're not wrong. You might enjoy the channel Waiting in the Wings, where he covers What Went Wrong with musicals (and sometimes, in the case of SpongeBob SquarePants, what went right).
I would've been more worried if she didn't mention The Phantom of the Opera. If there is one musical that occupies more free rent space in Lindsay Ellis' head more than CATS, it's Phantom.
Well I assume the screenshot at around 1:35 was part of the script so she kinda did. But yeah I guess she got it out of her system with the earlier video
Fun fact: it was literally cheaper to see Les Mis on the West End than it was to buy a copy of the book in the British Library bookstore (£28 vs £35). It was one of the greatest theatrical experiences of my life, by the way.
"And of course it would not be an episode I co-wrote without a mention of it sad boy...." That's because the Phantom of the Opera is there.... Inside your mind.
I took French in high school, and my friend and I noticed a theme in all the books our teacher had us read. We read abridged versions of The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Cyrano. The theme we found was that all three stories had a beautiful female lead, with a bunch of suitors, and one of them was considered a deformed, at least in the case of Erik and Quasimodo, French man. So we decided they were a band called The Deformed Frenchmen, or The DFM.
13:06 video: yet, when the chips are down- me: oh no the Fates, always singing in the back of my mind: *whatcha gonna do when the chips are down, nooooow that the ch*
kinda confused as to why Crazy Ex Girlfriend wasn't mentioned here, especially since Rachel Bloom recently published "I want to Be Where the Normal People Are" so, you know, it would technically be on the topic of literature.
Lindsey I am BEGGING you for a video on Lestat the musical. Or a musicalsplaining episode. I feel so cursed to have grown up ten years too late to see it 😭😭
Lindsay, I'm not sure if you owe Star Wars Legends novels like the ones in the background but just the sight of you with them made me love you even more (I'm odd)
Your videos are always so informative and compelling. I also saw Lestat twice - once in previews and once after opening. I was hoping they would have fixed the beginning of Act Two (among many other things. Many.) so upon the second viewing when the curtain rose on what I like to refer to as the stage set of Dawson’s Creek, I uttered “No! (though not as vociferously as Anakin Skywalker it was a bit louder than i would like to admit). As someone who was working on a vampire oriented musical at the time (an adaptation of Salem’s Lot) I had many many thoughts about Lestat. Many.
0:34 - I cannot express in words how much I *LOVE* that my favorite book has become theater kids' favorite book! So instead, I shall express my joy via INTERPRETATIVE DANCE! I rise OUT of my quiet dulldrums, and LEAP *CRASH* *THINGS BREAKING* Okay, end of interpretative dance.
Woah this is very interesting. I just realised how true this is, just taking from all the disney films to productions like Sweeney Todd, all take the original story to a point and then rearrange it to create a melodramatic version of the story.
I'm not much into musical theater - especially Andrew Lloyd Weber and his ilk - but I have a special place in my heart for _1776_ (my generation's _Hamilton_ ) due to my personal connection, and _Fiddler on the Roof_ (based on the stories of Sholem Aleichem, which I've never read), due to my cultural/ethnic connection.
