As if we needed another reason to despise Musical Theater

This one is goes out to all your Red Sox fans:
In case you didn’t know, the Red Sox have been denied a victory in the World Series ever since Harry Frazee, the owner of the Red Sox, sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in order to raise money for the musical production No, No, Nanette.
From today’s G-File over at NRO.

6 comments

  1. John, what the heck is wrong with musical theater? Maybe it would help if you called it “light opera.”

  3. Hardly the whole of musical theater. And considering you and I were in three musicals together, and that you stole my future wife from me in one of them, I would think you might show some respect.

  4. Okokokokokokokok!
    Rodgers and Hammerstein did a nice job
    Gilbert and Sullivan is truly light opera
    Most things written in the last 30 years are just total garbage.
    How’s that?

  5. I agree completely. You couldn’t pay me to see “Rent” or “Urine Town.” Webber isn’t all bad — I love the “Pie Jesu” from his “Requiem” — though I can see why people like picking on him.

  6. I was the musical director for Evita here at the academy. That show should have been put in mothballs in 1979 (and I could write a long essay on the reasons never to do that show with a high school group), and I’m sure T.S. Eliot hasn’t stopped spinning in his grave since the first plaintive yowl of CATS.
    Our drama teacher wants to do Urinetown and is lamenting that the rights to the show are not being released nationally yet. I hope they never are. He’ll be finding another conductor.

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