4 Apr
2014
4 Apr
'14
10:22 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:15:29PM -1000, david wrote:
On 04/03/2014 09:58 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
It's been a while since I've seen it, but isn't Tommy continuously musical
with no (or very minimal) spoken dialogue, thereby making it an opera as distinct from a
musical which would have spoken dialogue interspersed with songs sung by the cast?
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:26:25PM -1000, david
wrote:
Thanks, only that's a musical, not an opera. ;-) Who knows, maybe 300-400 years from know,
today's rock operas will be high
opera! Complete with the fat lady singing and scholarly musicologists
writing dissertations on the use of pinball machines as musical
instruments...
Ummm, it has already been done! Tommy. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who's_Tommy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfZQLXs72Lo