| re: SF Chronicle review of "Galileo" with Esparza | |
| Posted by: Delvino 11:14 am EDT 05/17/24 | |
| In reply to: SF Chronicle review of "Galileo" with Esparza - Delvino 10:58 am EDT 05/17/24 | |
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| Considerably more positive, but with the same overall complaints. "No longer seen as particularly envelope-pushing — with pioneering shows like Jesus Christ Superstar now seen as pretty vintage and dated — the rock musical can easily feel kitsch these days... "Jukebox musicals like Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, and Jagged Little Pill have added a certain commercialism to the genre. And no modern musical that uses tropes of contemporary popular music can escape the influence of Hamilton, especially if it's an anachronistic period story like Suffs (the suffragette musical currently on Broadway), or Six. "Galileo is no exception to that phenomenon. And while casting the iconoclast Galileo Galilei as a rock-star hero who can belt-shout anthemic pleas to the heavens about the conflicts between scripture and science sounds clever on paper, the resulting show in its current form comes off a bit half-cocked..." "The story of Galileo's rise to public attention, his initial running afoul of the Vatican, and his fraught relationship with his friend Barberini who became pope — and who would ultimately see him jailed for his legendary heresy, teaching about a heliocentric universe — is the stuff of opera, certainly. Translated to the musical theater stage, with occasional humor and the subplot of his daughter's failed engagement and becoming a nun added in, the story is made smaller in a way, and almost less impactful. Galileo is brought down to human scale while simultaneously getting to belt to the rafters about his ordeal — and that feels dissonant, and less than epically tragic..." |
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| Link | World Premiere Musical 'Galileo' Turns the Famed Astronomer Into a Rock Balladeer |
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