By Derek T. Pickens
Songs for a New World versus Avenue Q – A song cycle up against a musical with a storyline. Fair fight? I think not. To be fair, and not to try and sway voters, but Avenue Q clearly will come out on top. Just the other day Avenue Q made headlines because the entire world thought that it’s 6 year run was coming to an end, but little did we know that they were just moving down the street to an Off-Broadway theatre. Songs is nothing more than that: songs. Jason Robert Brown had a handful of songs that he had no idea what to do with so he threw them all together and tried to tie them together which, in my opinion, he did poorly. It does, however, have a few gems so I give JRB some credit. But my vote definitely goes to the little musical that could. Who ever thought it was possible for sex-crazed puppets to beat out L. Frank Baum’s re-imagined world.
September 16, 2009 at 5:41 pm |
Wooooo, dirty puppets!