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Apr. 12th, 2023 03:10 pmHeh, long time no post, as usual, it'll be about TV since that's all I really care about. Since there are a number of musical shows in the past month, like Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, but also stuff that stars folks ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
isabel79 is familiar with, like Scott Porter in Hulu's "Up Here" and Aaron Tveit in the second season of Schmigadoon! on AppleTV, I thought I'd mention them.
Heh, the second season of Schmigadoon is a little weird, because the 1st season was a little more Rogers and Hammerstein, and thus more thematically consistent, with Schmigadoon being a late 19th century small midwestern town. But with Schmigadoon season 2 moving to "Schmicago!", and focusing more on 70s era musicals, its all over the place. So they mix 1920s city themes with Chicago and Annie references, but also actual 60-70s hippie culture with obvious references to Hair and Godspell. So they're like cutting back and forth between a Miss Hannigan type played by Kristen Chenoweth running an orphanage in a city, to Aaron Tveit in a hippie commune. Like this ep right now, he's doing a parable straight out of Godspell, with the hippies dressing in funny costumes and squeezing bike horns and stuff.
Rise of the Pink Ladies is better than expected, I like Jane and Olivia, and to connect it to Grease, Jane's little sister is a pre-teen Frenchie, with her best friend Betty (Rizzo). I like the diversity in this, but that makes it weird since its a prequel, so its like, after they graduate and Rizzo and Frenchie go to Rydell, it becomes super white?
EDIT/b>- One more comment on Schmigadoon!, with them going into plays I'm more familiar with, I'm picking up more references. Like last week they had a song that was basically "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin, Jane Krakowski's court room song includes a breathless run-on sequence straight out of "Not Getting Married Today", Alan Cumming's butcher is basically someone out of Sweeney Todd, and the old rich dude getting angry at Keegan Michael Key being freed by jail is straight up singing like one of the Pharisees from Jesus Christ Superstar.
isabel79 is familiar with, like Scott Porter in Hulu's "Up Here" and Aaron Tveit in the second season of Schmigadoon! on AppleTV, I thought I'd mention them.Heh, the second season of Schmigadoon is a little weird, because the 1st season was a little more Rogers and Hammerstein, and thus more thematically consistent, with Schmigadoon being a late 19th century small midwestern town. But with Schmigadoon season 2 moving to "Schmicago!", and focusing more on 70s era musicals, its all over the place. So they mix 1920s city themes with Chicago and Annie references, but also actual 60-70s hippie culture with obvious references to Hair and Godspell. So they're like cutting back and forth between a Miss Hannigan type played by Kristen Chenoweth running an orphanage in a city, to Aaron Tveit in a hippie commune. Like this ep right now, he's doing a parable straight out of Godspell, with the hippies dressing in funny costumes and squeezing bike horns and stuff.
Rise of the Pink Ladies is better than expected, I like Jane and Olivia, and to connect it to Grease, Jane's little sister is a pre-teen Frenchie, with her best friend Betty (Rizzo). I like the diversity in this, but that makes it weird since its a prequel, so its like, after they graduate and Rizzo and Frenchie go to Rydell, it becomes super white?
EDIT/b>- One more comment on Schmigadoon!, with them going into plays I'm more familiar with, I'm picking up more references. Like last week they had a song that was basically "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin, Jane Krakowski's court room song includes a breathless run-on sequence straight out of "Not Getting Married Today", Alan Cumming's butcher is basically someone out of Sweeney Todd, and the old rich dude getting angry at Keegan Michael Key being freed by jail is straight up singing like one of the Pharisees from Jesus Christ Superstar.
