Terry A. Smith wrote: . Even tossing out a term like
"over-intellectualize" is a Stalinist-type conversation-stopper. Send
those damn professors out to the fields. Now.
.Actually it's more Mao, and a damned good idea it might be too! Right after the
industry weasels pull their shift. But first, middle managers in state
government!
Oh, P2. Gotta talk about music. Um. Gotta change the header. Well in London, I
figured I had to see one of the great shows of the London Stage for that English
experience. There were so many to choose from: Oklahoma, Grease, the Buddy Holley
Story, West Side Story, Chicago the Musical. Well so much for the English angle.
But wait. Here is a show called Shockheaded Peter (soon to be in Chicago I
hear--heads up twangsters!). Billed as a musical about children's stories.
Except in this one all the kids meet grisley bloody ends for failing to keep their
nails cut and things like that. Already I like it as an antidote to the
sentimental schmaltz. So we go. Holy moly, the next thing I see is a guy playing
an accordian singing like a castrato about nastly little children, accommpanied by
a skid roperish guy with a wheel around trap set, and a guy in a waxed moustache
playing string base. Kind of twangy in a cabaret sort of way. And in one song,
one of the puppet masters pops out of a window plucking on a banjo. Catch it when
it gets here.
