High School Musical - Musical Theatre or Just Teen Drama?
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Disney Channel's "High School Musical" is making quite a fuss, but not all of it positive. Is it more "drama" than theatre?
The plot of "High School Musical" is pretty standard high school fluff - Jock and Brainiac discover singing and decide to audition for the school musical. Their friends and relations (as well as the resident drama queens) try to thwart their efforts. While many preteen girls are raving about it (and Zac Efron) what do REAL high school musical performers think of it? Apparently not much.
Common complaints are that pop music has been used in place of traditional musical theatre, and that the story actually encourages stereotypes and segregation within the school. Most of all, a movie that calls itself "High School Musical" should in fact bare some resemblance to an actual high school musical, but many real theatre kids think it gives them a bad name. What do you think?
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posted by musicaltheatreaudition.com at 9:30 AM
1 Comments:
The whole thing is really shallow and full of stereotypes that don't get busted. At least in musicals like Grease, the characters have some growth. There was no character development in HSM. Also, the majority of the songs were superfluous to the story. In a musical, the music should reveal more about the characters or situation. The songs in HSM were just an excuse to sell a soundtrack IMHO.
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