I love John, I love Babs, I love Raymond and Connie... but this is WRONG!

[albadger]

John Waters suggests Pink Flamingos as an opera

And it's not wrong because of the property, it's wrong because of the state of modern opera. Project after project, good idea or bad idea, and the result is always the same -- 3 hours of tuneless, thickly scored arioso, more or less movie music slathered over people singing what they could be saying with more impact. Pink Flamingos might actually make a great opera, but in 1909, not 2009.

Otoh, let Marc Shaiman loose on it, shove it onto Broadway, and kick ass! Getting the dog to perform on cue might be a problem, of course.

Comments

[winstonthriller.livejournal.com]

I'd rather see Female Trouble as an opera or musical. Remember to wear your Cha-Cha heels!

I’ve been dying for an excuse to post this

[progbear.livejournal.com]

[benpanced.livejournal.com]

Why not? They're throwing stage plays at everything else these days.

[albadger.livejournal.com]

I just want it to be good. Modern opera is rarely good. But Broadway, passim Ethan Mordden, is alive and healthy, and with the right creative talent and casting (see other comments) this could rock!

[dhpbear.livejournal.com]

I never thought that How Much is That Doggie In The Window would eventually become opera music!

It already was.

[albadger.livejournal.com]

The tune of How Much is that Doggie in the Window is taken from the aria der Hund Wird Klar, from the 1887 Brindlestein opera die Bannie der Wohnwagensiedlung. It's never been performed in the USA, or recorded, or published.

Or written, for that matter.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I met Marc Shaiman at our opening night. He and his partner Scot Whitman are working with Terrance McNally on "Catch Me If You Can", debuting this Summer at The 5th Avenue in Seattle.

[albadger.livejournal.com]

Oh... my... God...

Can I swing a Seattle trip this summer? HopeHopeHope...

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

There's a hole in your bedroom ceiling, but, sure!

[albadger.livejournal.com]

That better be Ceiling Cat watching me through the hole, then...

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

Oh, Feed Dog LOVES it up there, but she gets filthy, and I don't want her ingesting fiberglass!

Anyone else is a surprise!

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

"Getting the dog to perform on cue might be a problem, of course."

Just make a dog-shaped puppet, with a pocket inside, big enough for a can of Snack-Mate, and have Varla Jean Merman play Babs!!!!!!!

I can't wait!!!!

[albadger.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! Varla Jean, and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, together on stage! I am totally going!

[bearhedded.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hadn't thought of him!

Just as long as it isn't that sock puppet from Petco, or whatever it was! (I HATE the at thing, but shoving a can of cheese up it's ass might be a good idea!)