| re: Speaking of Rob Marshall ... | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 04:00 am EST 02/03/25 | |
| In reply to: Speaking of Rob Marshall ... - WaymanWong 05:55 pm EST 02/02/25 | |
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| Yes, I think it would have not only worked seamlessly with the Roxie's-vaudeville-act-fantasy-eyes concept for the movie, but would have made it even more fun and more broadly exploited. A shame he didn't see it that way. It's weird to take a concept and overlay it onto a musical that is already built out of that concept, and then use that concept to eliminate songs that were conceived in and worked within/into that concept in the first place! AKA Chicago is built for all the numbers to be vaudeville. Condon/Marshall's concept for the film was that all the numbers be seen through Roxie's fantasy of the vaudeville dreams she has... but they already were that, yet they used that concept to cut numbers. So dumb. I'm sure he just wanted the cut for time, and without the song there isn't any point to the drag aspect. I think he may at least have been right that audiences in 2000 and beyond wouldn't have wanted the movie to stop for 3.5 minutes to have a very high operatic soprano song about seeing the good in everyone. It could have been very fun and funny if staged right, but it is not the kind of music or fun that the rest of the score is. | |
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