musical theater is all boring and afraid to take serious risks and be truly controversial

yessss i love theatre and musical numbers and it was my dream to be part of a theatre company when i was a child

>>42062829
>>42062834
Duality

>>42062860
the IDEA of theater and performance is fun, but the actual plays are horrendously boring, safe, and cliche (shakespeare is pure drudgery), and the people who get involved with it seriously are worse

>>42062869
shakespeare is not musical theater
(also not drudgery)

>>42062883
whatever, it gets turned into that
same rough idea
performance, theater, singing or not
VERY MUCH drudgery
boring hokey old timey plots
zero openly gay people
archaic language
people make very little effort to take RISKS in making plays or musicals

>>42062897
>whatever, it gets turned into that
which shakespeare play gets turned into musical theater? I think you're confused and complaining about something else

>>42062906
https://www.theatretrip.com/musicals-based-on-shakespeare/

>>42062897
oh ur one of those types lmfao

>>42062908
ok sure
but nobody says "I like shakespeare, and by that I mean west side story and the lion king"
those are completely different plays loosely based on shakespeare plays, with entirely different scripts and settings

>>42062911
burn all extant copies of shakespeare
ban performing it ever again
all it does it teach gay kids that theater is boring and old fashioned and has no place for new ideas

>>42062919
a lot of teen girls like those romeo and juliet movies I feel like there's at least two modernish ones that are both musicals

>>42062869

You have never been to a professional production of Shakespeare you hopeless fucking pleb this single comment sucked all of the life out of me good job