Behind Musicals
Hi. I'm Zoom, and I'm here to explain the nature of musicals. You may think that musicals are wonderful, with their catchy lyrics, and their happy protagonist who end up in love or everything turns out all right for them...and you'd be horribly, horribly wrong. You see, behind every single musical is something very sinister and evil. It's in the way the music entrances you, the way the vibrant costumes enthrall you, the way that everything usually turns out happy (unless it doesn't, in which case you're probably watching a rock opera). Now, I'll talk more about why musicals are so unrealistic.
Have you ever been walking through a big city park, and noticed suddenly that a large congregation of people are dancing through the park, all led by one person, singing a song they all seem to know and performing dance moves that they are apparently synchronizing on the spot? Nope. This will never happen, never to anyone. So that's one way how musicals can be unrealistic.
And actually, I can't seem to come up with anything else to write, so I'll just stop.
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I don't think musicals are
I agree with you, but I don't think musicals are actually supposed to be realistic. I think their primary purpose is to be forceful. Sometimes an emotion is better imparted through song than dialogue.
Also, if you think all musicals end happily, check out Wicked and/or Sweeney Todd. *Spoiler Warning* Wicked ends with Elphaba and Fiyero faking their own deaths and going on the lam, and Sweeney Todd ends with most of the characters getting their throats slit.
Oh?
Oh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M
Who are you to say this doesn't happen?
Myself. And thus it is true,
Myself. And thus it is true, because I said so.
the real answer:
nobody. I said it because it seemed funny at the time.
and I love those improv guys! there was one where they had a bunch of people in grand central station all freeze for about five minutes. it ruled.