for synnerman and occamsnailfile

[nachtwyrm]

http://www.cinematical.com/2008/12/03/watch-this-prop-8-the-musical/

It also has an excellent bit by Neil Patrick Harris, so greensilkchai needs to watch it too.

Comments

[greensilkchai]

i have two thoughts:

1. neil patrick harris is my master now.
2. ooh! shrimp cocktail!

[aikido_al]

That is full of AWESOME.

[greensilkchai]

you REALLY no longer get to use the "i won't watch that 'cause it's a musical and i don't like musicals" card.

so. newsies, anyone?

[aikido_al]

Lately I've been putting up with the format if they are about something instead of being a series of musical numbers loosely held together with a ridiculous plot and bailing wire. And I like the content to contain death (counteracts the inherent saccharine-ness of the genre), satire, or humor.

But the "hello my baby, hello my darlin', hello my raaagtime gaaaal" musicals are vapid pieces of fluff in which the music makes me feel pain. As in Spock mind-melding with the Horta pain.

[synnerman]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! Awesome!!!!

[occamsnailfile]

Man, I want shrimp now. But I think I'm just hungry.

Also that was very funny. All musicals should be about that long.

[aikido_al]

Agreed.