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saw "& Juliet" on broadway
| Consuela | 06/16/26 |
| WordcelWorth | 06/16/26 |
| Consuela | 06/16/26 |
| Consuela | 06/17/26 |
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Date: June 16th, 2026 10:29 PM Author: Consuela it was OK, a 2019 jukebox musical of max martin's songs, asking the question "well what if juliet didn't die after all"
the setup is handled well, the cast was professional, and it pushes expected and very tired themes of female empowerment, delayed marriage, and homosexuality. a bunch of the cast had we/they pronouns, it was mixed race with blacks, browns, jews, whites
the audience was largely older, white, and some browns - almost no blacks
i guess my main takeaway was how tired all of this stuff is, just remix upon remix upon remix. here's a remix of romeo & juliet based on a remix of martin's music from the past 20-30 years. i was fairly bored
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%26_Juliet
its also interesting to me the psychological makeup in relation to politics. broadway is almost universally "liberal", and "liberalism" has significant overlap with urban living, race mixing and gender weirdness/egalitarianism. i've done a lot of analysis of why this is but there's still a strange component to it all |
Date: June 16th, 2026 10:41 PM Author: WordcelWorth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874852&forum_id=2...id#49943291) |
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Date: June 16th, 2026 10:47 PM Author: Consuela the strangeness is multi-fold -- (1) that these people value egalitarianism over other values that i think should be weighted much more heavily (family, control over monetary printing, community based around family and those with shared religious, cultural, and especially biological backgrounds) -- to me, i would feel more comfortable in a small or mid size town with people who think like me and have some relation to me, i think; these values are heavily de-emphasized in multi-cultural urban modern living; (2) i don't think many of these actors can afford home ownership, so they are contributing to a system that has largely excluded them in the modern era; (3) the race/gender/sexual orientation stuff has been fully "won" and there's nothing left to fight over on it, so it feels exhausted and performative, and "empowered women" don't seem to be really enjoying the fruits of their "victory" (late family formation if any, bitterness toward men). yet the clown show continues because that's what this subculture wants, drifting off the exhausted remains of this egalitarian egregore which has nowhere left to ratchet to other than child transsexualism, which is deeply unpopular (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874852&forum_id=2...id#49943299) |
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Date: June 17th, 2026 12:02 PM Author: Consuela (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5874852&forum_id=2...id#49944087) |