Musical theater is a stagnant genre but it didn't have to be. I think I finally accepted that the medium would forever be resigned to kitsch around when Glee first menaced the airwaves. It always was a reactionary genre, a pastiche genre, a genre that gathered authentic modes into little packages and repackaged them for bourgeois Manhattanites. It's the phenomenon behind why
Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)
Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)
Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)
Musical theater is a stagnant genre but it didn't have to be. I think I finally accepted that the medium would forever be resigned to kitsch around when Glee first menaced the airwaves. It always was a reactionary genre, a pastiche genre, a genre that gathered authentic modes into little packages and repackaged them for bourgeois Manhattanites. It's the phenomenon behind why