To say Boggess is the best thing about the production, but not by a wide margin, is more of a compliment to the rest of the cast than it is a criticism of Boggess. But her ability to speak and sing with a Puerto Rican/Spanish accent is one of the most powerful things about this ...
In addition to the updated visual flair, impressive use of color and stunning camera work, Spielberg's changes to West Side Story serve to deepen the legacy of the original musical, creating a more representative and inclusive story that can will help to the famous work alive for years to co...
I'm all for criticism of any piece of work, but it needs to make some form of logical sense otherwise what is the point? InMyArms Posts: 51,070 Forum Member ✭ 18/01/22 - 19:34 #274 I saw this at the cinema this afternoon and while the story itself was good and I felt th...
asserts that people “should refuse to be gendered man or woman [and] refuse to be raced.”Footnote9I applaud her criticism of the ideological-rhetorical pretense of rationalizing the subjugation, exploitation, and nonrepair of women with regard to their raced and gendered identities and denials o...
In spite of Sondheim's well-known criticism of some of his lyrics for this musical, several of those lyrics accomplish the same 鈥Puccio, Paul
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West Side Story famously rewrites Romeo and Juliet into a drama of 20th-century urban gang warfare. Arthur Laurents' book ingeniously reassigns characters and converts the narrative, preserving many of the tensions and ironies that complicate Shakespeare's play while developing a story with its own...
Many of these poems are a cry for Nature. As long as Man has walked the earth, he has called on Nature to provide him with sustenance. Nature gives; we take; we destroy. It was Pope who wrote in his poem “An Essay on Criticism”First follow NATURE, and your Judgment frame/By her...
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This one-sided rivalry came to a halt after Joe revealed why Barry came to live with him and Iris and that Barry's tragedies are why Joe tried too hard to defend him from any criticism. After this, Wally made the decision to try to see Barry less like a rival for his father's ...