'Come From Away' Musical Premiering on Apple TV+ on September 10

[kesenwangs]

Can we all just agree that musicals are the stupidest thing ever and should be banned? Who goes around singing and dancing about what they are doing and what's going on?

I mean, probably why most of them sing and dance to a theatre full of people rather than to an empty audience for some who rants and criticizes on a forum lol.

 

[psac]

I saw it during a 2-day work trip to NJ, we took a trip into NYC our last evening and one of group insisted on seeing THIS play and we were "lucky" to get last minute tickets though nobody wanted to go. I ended up very pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed it!

Unfortunately my strongest memory though is the seats in the theater being worse than the middle seat on a plane and feeling very claustrophobic, uncomfortably squeezed between two people I hardly knew, sweating after the group decided it would be 'fun' to walk from Union Square to Hells Kitchen for dinner and then to the theater in business clothes, in the middle of summer. I love any chance to go to New York though, so I can't complain.

As someone who lives in NY (though not in Manhattan), I totally agree about the seats in Broadway theaters. They're awful, worse than the middle seats is not an exaggeration. We've seen a whole lot of shows, and some threaters are even worse than others. In a post-covid world, it'll be even more of a deterrent to going to a live show for us.

 

[madrigal77]

I mean, probably why most of them sing and dance to a theatre full of people rather than to an empty audience for some who rants and criticizes on a forum lol.

These are poses people normally do in everyday life. They don't look absolutely ridiculous at all...

 

[dpfenninger]

These are poses people normally do in everyday life. They don't look absolutely ridiculous at all...

You've obviously never watched a musical before. There are things called staging, choreography, and movement that are part of the form, and their point is to enhance and highlight the story and the characters for effect, especially for an audience in a large space. If you want realism only, stick with film.

Or if your goal is just to be a hide-behind-a-keyboard tough-guy killjoy and poo-poo all over something that plenty of people enjoy, maybe just follow the old adage of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

 

[madrigal77]

You've obviously never watched a musical before. There are things called staging, choreography, and movement that are part of the form, and their point is to enhance and highlight the story and the characters for effect, especially for an audience in a large space. If you want realism only, stick with film.

Or if your goal is just to be a hide-behind-a-keyboard tough-guy killjoy and poo-poo all over something that plenty of people enjoy, maybe just follow the old adage of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

I have. And it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

 

[dpfenninger]

I have. And it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

Because everything on TV and in the movies is always 100% realistic and natural and never at all exaggerated. 🙄

You must be fun at parties. You need to chill TF out and let people like the things they like without being such a Debbie Downer.