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That number is a total hoot.

I don't know what you are referring to that the show is actually about, no. I haven't seen it in ages. I just recorded it which I guess is why it was on my mind. I'll finally see it again any day now.

But no, tell me.
 
It's a love story between Sally Bowles and an English writer, as well as a subplot about the housekeeper/owner lady and a jewish man, which is all over seen by the man in the video above, the EmCee, who is gay and runs a night club. This is set in 1930-something as nazis are coming into power. I dont want to give away the ending, but it's actually very sad.
 
That's the thing about so many classic musicals. You think about some of the great numbers and it feels like they should be very uplifting but there are some very serious themes and sad shit that happens. Fiddler on the Roof. Sweet Charity. Show Boat. Of course there are about 20 really sad bits in Rent and Les Miz.

Are you looking forward to the Les Miz movie? I have a date to see it on Boxing Day. (Hope they don't screw it up).
 
Have you gone mad? Sports? Did you really just ask if I prefer music to . . . sports? Might as well ask if I would prefer a sumptuous filet mignon dinner followed by a massage from a beautiful woman - to a bologna sandwich on an unbalanced lawn chair.



There are musicals that are profoundly woven into my soul. They can make me think or laugh or cry. They can inspire. I have to go to my piano and make an arrangement of that song so I can sing it for myself - for the rest of my life. It becomes part of me. I am inside of it and it is all the life and beauty in the universe.



Sports? In fairness there are a few things I can stand in sports in small doses - there are maybe even 3 various games I will watch in their entirety per year (hopefully they don't end up being duds) - but for the most part I just see it as nerd food and something for dumdums to throw money away on.

It is a killer of time and a lot of people need to kill time. Sports were handy when I was drugging/drinking, I'll say that. No more.





DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
 
Not music Muddy, musicals or movies for that matter.

I get that music can inspire and I understand that someone who can sing or play music can relate life through music but musicals?

I asked myself this question, well I asked it about movies not musicals cause a musical wouldn;t even come close. My answer was close and then I considered the most inspiring of movies versus Vince Young's performance against USC and that was the end of the comparison.
 
I don't particularly care for musicals but sports-as-a-spectator would rank pretty low vs. most art forms. (Boxing is the one exception. I'm in awe of anyone who's willing to take punches to the face for a living, and great boxing matches give me actual goosebumps.)
 
Mudcat
That's the thing about so many classic musicals. You think about some of the great numbers and it feels like they should be very uplifting but there are some very serious themes and sad shit that happens. Fiddler on the Roof. Sweet Charity. Show Boat. Of course there are about 20 really sad bits in Rent and Les Miz.

Are you looking forward to the Les Miz movie? I have a date to see it on Boxing Day. (Hope they don't screw it up).
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CaliGirl: "Mom I know i'll be staying with you for xmas, but if you're looking for me on xmas day i'll be at the movies seeing les mis."
CaliMom: "Oh I'll be there with you. ... [yelling to my dad] Honey, [my name] and I are going to the movies on xmas to see a musical, would you like to come?"
CaliDad: "Yeah! I want to see Les Mis, I can hear the people singing the songs of angry men already!"

i come from an artsy-fartsy family.
 
Mudcat
Have you gone mad? Sports? Did you really just ask if I prefer music to . . . sports? Might as well ask if I would prefer a sumptuous filet mignon dinner followed by a massage from a beautiful woman - to a bologna sandwich on an unbalanced lawn chair.



There are musicals that are profoundly woven into my soul. They can make me think or laugh or cry. They can inspire. I have to go to my piano and make an arrangement of that song so I can sing it for myself - for the rest of my life. It becomes part of me. I am inside of it and it is all the life and beauty in the universe.



Sports? In fairness there are a few things I can stand in sports in small doses - there are maybe even 3 various games I will watch in their entirety per year (hopefully they don't end up being duds) - but for the most part I just see it as nerd food and something for dumdums to throw money away on.

It is a killer of time and a lot of people need to kill time. Sports were handy when I was drugging/drinking, I'll say that. No more.





DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING?
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I think I just fell in love with you.
 
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