Re: Modern "comedy" (WAS Re: Now that I have seen Oklahoma!...)

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<<<A typical URINETOWN joke is "We can't give them too much exposition;
this is, after all, a musical." I think I would have appreciated the
show if I'd found any of it remotely funny. There's plenty of good humor
in Carousel. And Hammerstein didn't have to stoop to this facile kind of
humour.>>>
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How about, *nobody* in those days had to stoop to the sort of facile
humour that is mandatory today......
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Ken Mandelbaum on the "spooficals": "Musicals for people who don't like
musicals." As John Waters wrote in his film PECKER: "Here's to the death
or irony."  

 
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