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Anne Frank: The MusicalPosted on Feb 22, 2008
There’s an adage that cautions against making jokes about such categorically unfunny topics as the Holocaust ... but how about making musicals? This just in: The BBC brings word from Spain of the staging of a new musical, “Anne Frank: A Song to Life,” which at times features “Kitty,” a perhaps unwisely (and too literally) conceived character.
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By republicanSScareme, March 1 at 12:15 pm # There’s no business like shoah business Everything about it is repealing There’s no business like shoal business Everybody sing!
By ALD, February 27 at 4:36 pm # Sept. 11, 2006 (5th anniversary) we gave the world premiere of THE FALL ‘01 - a ballet (choreodrama to be more precise) - a 45 min. multi-media live stage work (now in festival circulation as a movie) on the Global War Of Terror — departing at 9/11 and arching into the Torture Gulag - severe dance theatre. Some say it should be seen widely, some...that it’s too soon. Who know? It’s out there http://www.thefall01.info/ and the movie is available for screenings - http://bravenewtheaters.com/ What the world needs now is more polemic art - where the message really sinks in - http://www.a-laska.com/
By rage, February 25 at 11:21 am # This crap is incredibly crass, insensitive, and in obscenely poor taste. How can anyone with an ounce of human decency and a minutia of compassion and remorse for the victims and survivors of the Holocost set this historic atrocity to music, with dancing? This is little more than these idiots’ dancing on the Frank Family’s graves. Every person connected to this atrocity ought to be ashamed of himself.
By Less Lee Moore, February 25 at 9:43 am # Copycats...Mr. Show with Bob and David already covered this in its very first episode, as “Hitler Sings” when David Cross confuses Hitler with Anne Frank.
By republicanSScareme, February 23 at 1:27 am # Can I ask the producers one question?Is this musical anything like that fabulous extravaganza, “Springtime for Hitler”?
By Anon, February 22 at 5:26 pm # Well, at least they didn’t call it - Anne! Of course, it hasn’t made it to Broadway yet… Add Your Comment |
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