A walk on the dark side with Dick & Oscar
Aug. 19th, 2010 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litlover12Thoughts inspired by last night's "Live at Lincoln Center" airing of South Pacific (that is, the little bit I've watched so far):
1. Kelli O'Hara is phenomenal, and Paulo Szot is no slouch either. I need to get this cast album.
2. Even though "In Love with a Wonderful Guy" was one of my favorite songs in junior high (no, really, it was; I was a major show-tunes nerd), I had forgotten just how great these songs are.
3. I had also forgotten how squicky the mommy-pimps-daughter storyline is. Truthfully, I'm not sure I ever realized before just how squicky it is. My grandmother bought the movie for my sister and me when we were kids -- that is, too young to realize exactly what was going on -- and it's been a very long time since I watched it. (What I thought Cable and Liat were doing, I'm not sure. Hugging a lot, I suppose.) Tacking on one of the most beautiful songs ever written, "Younger than Springtime," just takes the whole thing into the realm of the surreal.
People have this mistaken impression that Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are all about the sweetness and light and cute little moppets dressed up in curtains. They're really not.
1. Kelli O'Hara is phenomenal, and Paulo Szot is no slouch either. I need to get this cast album.
2. Even though "In Love with a Wonderful Guy" was one of my favorite songs in junior high (no, really, it was; I was a major show-tunes nerd), I had forgotten just how great these songs are.
3. I had also forgotten how squicky the mommy-pimps-daughter storyline is. Truthfully, I'm not sure I ever realized before just how squicky it is. My grandmother bought the movie for my sister and me when we were kids -- that is, too young to realize exactly what was going on -- and it's been a very long time since I watched it. (What I thought Cable and Liat were doing, I'm not sure. Hugging a lot, I suppose.) Tacking on one of the most beautiful songs ever written, "Younger than Springtime," just takes the whole thing into the realm of the surreal.
People have this mistaken impression that Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are all about the sweetness and light and cute little moppets dressed up in curtains. They're really not.
