[SkyDancer]

I still can’t see how you can make a musical about a very sad story.

[nuconvert]

“I still can’t see how you can make a musical about a very sad story.”

Ever heard of operas?

[Dr. Sivana]

I still can’t see how you can make a musical about a very sad story.

"Carousel" is pretty dark, despite the largely upbeat score.

[miss marmelstein]

You're thinking of the American musical comedy - a very great art form destroyed in the 1980s by the British and their lugubrious adaptions of various novels and movies. American audiences fell for this drek hook, line and sinker.

[RitaOK]

It isn’t a “musical”, it is an opera. Opera can be quite full of drama and heart rending, complex, full of the deepest endearments of the heart.

Being from all redneck country, all the time, I can appreciate resistance to opera, but for seeing this production live on stage, it became a memorable experience, for me as powerful as Tom Hanks movie, oh, what was the name of it? You know, the real version of the US military landing on D Day?

I don’t know if I will enjoy an all opera version either, but the story is so magnificent that it may carry the movie on its own in spite of the lyrical dialogue.

[Political Junkie Too]

I still can’t see how you can make a musical about a very sad story.

West Side Story. Gang warfare, the two male leads die.

Porgy and Bess. About a begger, an abused wife, and drugs.

Showboat. The show-in-show lead performer is outed as 1/32 black, and ostracized.

South Pacific. WWII. Second love interest is killed in action.

Evita. She dies.

Jesus Christ, Superstar. He dies.

Chicago. They're all murderers.

Sweet Charity. An optimistic prostitute?

And on and on.

-PJ