Musicals
Why do so many people hate musicals so much? Well that’s easy: they can get on your nerves, can be long and tedious, and are by their very nature over the top, irritating and exceedingly long-winded. But is that any reason to not watch them? I don’t think so. People have a breast uplift and other things for absolutely no reason, don’t they? The point is that musicals, like anything, can get on your nerves, but some of them are actually really good and deserve to be seen. The problem is the same as with anything: the few poor ones bring the rest down. The result is that a whole generation miss out. How sad!
Up until my twenty-first birthday the word Musical made my stomach do a somersault. Then one day I was in the video store and I came across Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. I stepped away from the shelf and caught my breath–what was this I saw before me–a horror musical? I was instantly intrigued. Instead of walking past I thought Let’s see what you got and went and rented it out.
I didn’t expect much. OK, the film had both Helena Bonham Carter and Jonny Depp in it, but that meant little. It was still a musical, so it could still kill my brain. I started the DVD and sat back, ready to switch it off as soon as Sweeney took it too far. Except he never did–all though the film I was fixated, smiling, and engrossed. The unbelievable had been achieved: I had been converted and it wasn’t even painful!
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