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Журнал Time (от 26.08.02)
Desegregation Doo-Wop
By Richard Zoglin
Is it time to start worrying about the dumbing down of the Broadway musical? The trend is alarming. Say what you will about the Brit-pop musicals that dominated Broadway in the 1980s and ‘90s, but shows like "Les Miserables", "Miss Saigon" and "The Phantom of the Opera" at least had big ambitions and tried to engage the audience emotionally. The Broadway hits of the past five years have been of a different, more frivolous sort. Most of them are aimed at kids (“The Lion King”), or they hark back to old-fashioned eras with tongue planted in cheek (“42 street”, “Thoroughly Modern Millie”), or they have books that are too patently silly for any sentient adult to pay attention (“Mamma Mia!”). Even “The Producers”, for all its pleasures, gets much of its comedy from Friar’s Club jokes about big bazooms and limp-wristed homosexuals, gags that passed muster only because they came from a reverent master, Mel Brooks.
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