When I think back on some of the fantastic mass choreography of our past, I wonder why there is not more out there today? A pox on that freestyle, rapid cut editing, I want smiling faces in a frenzied routine. I want Hot Gossip and Pan's People. And I want it all performed to gang vocals. How can anyone think of the world going to hell in a handbasket with such a musical extravaganza? Buddy, you can't stop the music. Nobody can stop the music (pace Village People)
But the really strange thing is, this obession with team dancing does not translate to a love of musicals. They sully the purity of expression - which makes Andrew Lloyd Webber's work a perversion. Not even his association with that Diva Sarah Brightman can redeem him.
2 comments:
thank you for this post, mene. busby berkeley is my hero.
oh my god, the girl on the middle left in the first picture is Beebe from "The Apple"!
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