They've made it a musical.
I give up.
Yahoo:
9/11 musical "Clear Blue Tuesday" adds to tragedy
By Frank Scheck
Thu Sep 2, 11:35 pm ET
.NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Want to experience the worst sort of theater without the bother or expense of heading to New York? Take in the new indie film "Clear Blue Tuesday," a 9/11-themed musical -- that's not a typo -- representing the sort of egregious fatuousness and self-indulgence that is all too endemic to off-Broadway stages.
Directed by Elizabeth Lucas and written by her and the film's ensemble cast (there's your first clue), the film revolves around the troubled lives of am ethnically diverse group of New Yorkers during the course of seven successive years of Tuesdays in September, beginning on that most fateful of days.
Apparently, in the eyes of the filmmakers, the traumatic events of 9/11 provide the perfect opportunity to explore issues of personal growth. Thus, we are introduced to such less-than-fascinating figures as Etta (Erin Hill), a harpist and sci-fi geek who disdainfully rejects a potential suitor because he has the temerity to dis Captain Janeway from the "Star Trek: Voyager" series; Kyle (Asa Somers), an arrogant executive who fires one of his depressed employees in song; Syd (Brother Love), a fun-loving rock musician; and Ricardo (Robi Hager), an apartment porter who delivers life-changing insights along with the packages.
At different points, nearly all of the characters burst into songs -- written mainly by the actors and nearly all of which are mediocre -- that are not so much expressions of emotional truths as apparent audition pieces for "American Idol."
Because of the sheer plethora of stories and characters, inevitably there are moments that resonate, most of them provided by Caroline (Jan O'Dell, who suffered injuries in the actual attack), an elderly woman searching for her lost son. However well-meaning "Tuesday" might have been in its exploration of the lives of people physically and emotionally scarred by 9/11, the amateurishness of its execution and the obvious self-regard by nearly everyone involved simply leaves a bad taste in one's mouth.
4 comments:
My choice for all-time worst Musical is 'The Sound of Music' and the song 'The Lonely Goatherd'. I mean how can a goatherd ever be lonely?
Second worst is 'Fiddler on The Roof', where the show ends with the Jews still having their heads attached to their shoulders.
My favorite song from the shows is 'Thank Heaven for Little Girls' from Gigi.
These callously vainglorious specimens most likely fit the profile of "Katrina! Bush's fault!" The mind numbing disease these humiliatingly ignorant individuals suffer from should be painful.
George Bush is a witch doctor capable of whipping up Category 5 hurricanes with vodun and his worship of Ba'al.
Ayatollah,
The Fu2rman and I used to feature the Gigi song on our show quite often. Did you like that?
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