Sweeney Todd would've been sweet.
How many more musicals about the labour movement can you dig up Jesse?
Oooh, is there a filmed version of Rags?
Right, what's a little sweater sniffing between sworn enemies?
Riley ,'Sleeper'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
aurelia - Dec 02, 2007 8:16:41 pm PST #8667 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Kristen - Dec 02, 2007 8:19:21 pm PST #8668 of 10001
I think it's going to be the first movie that gets me into a theater in...well, a very long time. I'm now trying to remember the last time I went to the movies.
ETA: God help me, I think it might've been Brokeback Mountain.
Allyson - Dec 02, 2007 8:39:20 pm PST #8669 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I WISH I COULD QUIT YOU
justkim - Dec 03, 2007 1:40:25 am PST #8670 of 10001
Another social casualty...
Don't forget The Pajama Game.
Plot synopsis from IMDB:
"Employees of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory are looking for a whopping seven-and-a-half cent an hour increase and they won't take no for an answer. Babe Williams is their feisty employee representative but she may have found her match in shop superintendent Sid Sorokin. When the two get together they wind up discussing a whole lot more than job actions! "
Plus Fosse choreography.
Theodosia - Dec 03, 2007 2:04:30 am PST #8671 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
May I also suggest Brassed Off which is a non-traditional brass-band-based musical?
CaBil - Dec 03, 2007 2:59:24 am PST #8672 of 10001
Remember, remember/the fifth of November/the Gunpowder Treason and Plot/I see no reason/Why Gunpowder Treason/Should ever be forgot.
I think the reason that people were upset with Leno was that he had promised his workers that they would be taken care of, then this happened. Apparently he thought they would go back to work with either guest hosts or without scripts (no opening monologue/skits, more musician acts) but that didn't pan out.
victor infante - Dec 03, 2007 3:18:17 am PST #8673 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
I think the reason that people were upset with Leno was that he had promised his workers that they would be taken care of, then this happened. Apparently he thought they would go back to work with either guest hosts or without scripts (no opening monologue/skits, more musician acts) but that didn't pan out.
Exactly. A lot of the crew were saying that, when 'the most powerful person in television' tells you to relax, you relax. And they paid for that. Which on the one hand, says a lot about Leno's clout these days.
But it also says a bit about the AMPTP, and how they don't seem to have the situation as in control as they originally seemed to. NBC was touting the idea of going in with guest hosts, et al. They seemed supremely confident it was going to happen. That they've turned around and laid off their staff is a sign they're panicking a bit.
Much earlier, Tim (and he's hardly alone in this idea) said he believed the AMPTP had allowed the strike to happen because they had done the math and thought the numbers were in their favor to do so. (Wildly paraphrasing). I agree that's what they did, but I'm thinking things didn't work out exactly as they expected, either. I'm beginning to suspect this strike is costing more than they expected.
Fay - Dec 03, 2007 4:07:29 am PST #8674 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
May I also suggest Brassed Off which is a non-traditional brass-band-based musical?
Ooh! Yes! Based on the true story of the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band (who play all the actual music that the actors are pretending to play) from my home town! Which was utterly crippled by the miners' strike for about a decade, of course.
God, I heart brass band music. Northern working men playing their hearts out...gah!
(The Full Monty, does that count? Probably not? That's set down the road in Sheffield, home of Sean Bean.)
lisah - Dec 03, 2007 5:24:17 am PST #8675 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Yeah, but Matewan and Norma Rae aren't musicals.
There is some music in Matewan as well as future prominent musician Will Oldham.
Vortex - Dec 03, 2007 5:25:49 am PST #8676 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
A lot of the crew were saying that, when 'the most powerful person in television' tells you to relax, you relax.
Leno? really?
ION, I met Norman Lear last night. He's very sprightly for 85. I wanted to ask him what he thought about the strike, but I thought it might be tacky, so I didn't.