errantember

The manipulative and erroneous message is part of it, but a lot of it is just the fact that although I like *all* of the elements that go into musicals, I hate the art form passionately. Having people tell stories by getting up on stage and singing about them, is *so* likely to produce something awful that it just shouldn't be done. It's like saying that the second amendment gives every American citizen the right to posses nuclear weapons. I like Les Miserables. I like Camelot. I like Fiddler on the Roof. I suspect The Producers is probably brilliant, especially since it's a self-mocking musical. But if some super-power alien race gets access to the musical theater offerings of the human race, they're going to kill us all, probably without even the tiniest modicum of hesitation, to prevent the Horror from spreading elsewhere. Moulin Rouge alone would probably amount to a death sentence for us all. I've never seen an opera that was worth sitting through, either, and I've seen at least a representative sample.

It's ok to disagree with me. There are things that I love that a lot of other people hate. Brussel Sprouts are a good example. But it's hard for me *not* to take it seriously. I'm not sure why my hatred is so strong. I feel the same way about puns. When I meet someone who's obviously really into them, I have a hard trouble restraining my violence. And I genuinely think that if I saw someone like that walking out in front a moving bus, I wouldn't save them. It definitely seems irrational and unhealthy. Especially for someone who plans to take poly-oriented theatrical music on the road as part of his career.