What’s wrong with Avenue Q? Or are we just shitting on musicals that break into pop culture relevance?
Unpopular Opinion: The winner of the Tony the year before A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a superior show both artistically and politically. Even though it’s an Operetta, the whitest form of music alive.
I think Lindsay Ellis’ video about Rent is her best video and it discusses the relationship Broadway has to “subversive” musicals that ultimately uphold a status quo
Also, hearing the gay community using the same “healthcare is a right” chant 40 years ago during the AIDS epidemic as we do now is a little harrowing.
It attempts to synthesize patriotism and wokeness. It failed
Libs love musicals and Hamilton is the most anodyne musical ever imagined
Can’t even pull the “Rap music is bad because it’s about drugs and hoes” angle on it because it’s about the founding fathers
