Posted on 10/28/2011 2:39:59 PM PDT by EveningStar
Entertainment Weekly: 'South Park' skewers Broadway: Too late or right on the money?
Los Angeles Times: 'South Park' recap: A profane love letter to Broadway musicals
The Washington Post: Stephen Sondheim, Elton John featured in ‘South Park’ love letter to Broadway
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LOL, very funny episode.
Ha. It was a half hour ad for “The Book of Mormon” and a well done, funny one, tooo!
It’s never too late to make fun of Broadway. I’ve even been known to enjoy some Broadway shows, but even the good ones are a bit... overwrought.
Stereotype. Ever see a Sondheim show? It can be a very subtle art form.
I looked him up some time ago. Wow. What a background - both accomplishment-wise and education-wise.
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Very true, and I’m still disappointed they haven’t addressed the OWS thing. Especially after the story ideas thread here.
For the 32nd time, they already did. Watch “Die, Hippie, Die!” 2nd episode of season 9.
How Matt and Trey are years ahead of stuff is amazing. They were 6 years ahead of OWS. They piss off liberals.
They were also 2 years ahead with the “Passion of the Jew” and Mel Gibson was arrested in a crazy drunken anti Semitic incident.
It’s a bromance. These guys are brilliant.
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South Park sucks. The animation is ridiculously cheap and cheesy, and the storylines make your soul hurt.
They started by cutting out construction paper and animating it. They want to keep that look. Actually, they have state of the art computer hardware and software to get the episodes out in only 6 days. The story of all the software tweaking it took to allow them to make their animation look crappy was really astounding. They WANT the animation to look as if it's cut out construction paper. That's part of the show's "charm," or at least identity.
Sometimes I wonder why I watch the show, other times all I can do is consider Matt and Trey to be prophets, since so many of their story lines have appeared well after the episodes aired.
Mark
And you felt the need to “grace” us with your presence here because.....??
I’ve seen a few Sondeims, as broadway musicals go one could make the case that they’re subtle. But it’s a sliding scale. As an art form the broadway musical is not subtle, 2 dozen people belting out catchy tunes at the top of their lungs is not subtle. Fun and entertaining and beautiful when done right, but about as subtle as a slap in the face by Mike Tyson.
If they saw the story idea thread then they CAN’T do it. The worst thing you can ever do to a writer is give them an idea. Because you own, and if they follow through on it, or do something similar to it, you can sue them and win.
Actually aren’t ideas non copyright-able? Film studios are notorious for rejecting scripts they feel are too expensive but then hiring someone else to write another script using the same concept for cheaper.
Well singing is inherently non-subtle especially when it’s done on a stage in a big theater. And it’s not all belting.
There’s a fuzzy ground that happens when you submit a script to the studio, usually on some level you got paid so they can do whatever they want. Also they probably have better lawyers than you. There’s lots of instances of people “proving” they had the idea first and either discussed it with the writer or the writer otherwise was exposed to it. The most famous is probably Terminator.
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