How is the revising and reshaping of an historical Broadway musical to suit the manufactured values of the moment any different than toppling a statue or defacing a memorial? It takes some cojones to "redo" a work of art to suit your tastes and then brag about it. Why is it that Broadway cannot mount an original musical production reflecting their own current cultural imaginings? We all know the answer to that. The Right makes and the Left takes.
The shapoopi song shows Harold Hill's objectification of women, which is essential to his character arc - Hill was no good, through and through. Ultimately, it was his love for a real woman (who refused to be objectified) that caused him to give up all of his ways - he got his foot caught in the door. I am surprised they left in the part about him being a con man.
People who put fig leaves on Michelangelo's David have no business around art.
That revision to Shipoopi implies that ‘boys’ by nature are flawed and primitive creatures who need to ‘see the light’, in other words, be fixed. Women are fine as they are. It’s another example of the politically correct misandry so prevalent today.
How is the revising and reshaping of an historical Broadway musical to suit the manufactured values of the moment any different than toppling a statue or defacing a memorial? It takes some cojones to "redo" a work of art to suit your tastes and then brag about it. Why is it that Broadway cannot mount an original musical production reflecting their own current cultural imaginings? We all know the answer to that. The Right makes and the Left takes.
Sigh.
The shapoopi song shows Harold Hill's objectification of women, which is essential to his character arc - Hill was no good, through and through. Ultimately, it was his love for a real woman (who refused to be objectified) that caused him to give up all of his ways - he got his foot caught in the door. I am surprised they left in the part about him being a con man.
People who put fig leaves on Michelangelo's David have no business around art.
That revision to Shipoopi implies that ‘boys’ by nature are flawed and primitive creatures who need to ‘see the light’, in other words, be fixed. Women are fine as they are. It’s another example of the politically correct misandry so prevalent today.